6+ mon, 3+ week ago   (841+ words) In the previous post, I argued that America’s deepest crisis is not merely political. It is moral and spiritual. That is why our ordinary fixes so often fail. We keep reaching for better laws, better leaders, better messaging, and better…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago   (175+ words) Maybe this doesn’t mean anything. And as for the midterms, I’m puzzled. That does seem to be what’s changing everything now. People are losing money. It was always all about money. People were willing to do this to their fellow…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (616+ words) I am delighted to announce the publication of my new book, American Empire, American Faith: Conquest, Christianity, and the Shaping of a Nation (from Baylor University Press). That news is highly relevant here because the project grew in part from…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (653+ words) Roger E. Olson is Emeritus Professor of Christian Theology at Baylor University where he held the Foy Valentine Chair in Christian Ethics and taught Christian Theology from 1999 to 2021. He is the author of over twenty book including The Story of Christian…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (478+ words) “The reason we’re having a measles outbreak is because of the COVID lockdowns.” “Among those joining the Southern Baptist activist are a former neo-Nazi pushing for a White ethnostate, a Christian nationalist podcaster who talks of Jews being ‘at odds…...

3+ mon, 4+ day ago   (538+ words) Summertime and the living is easy. Vacations. Lying out on a beach. Doing nothing and then taking a nap. Wouldn’t it be great to always have leisure time like this? Not having to work. Devoting oneself to constant entertainment. Wouldn’t…...

4+ mon, 2+ hour ago   (1137+ words) This post prompted some really interesting and insightful comments. Several readers thought that the most important consideration is NOT beliefs or practices, but how we show up for others. (The article, too, suggested that spiritual life is more than spiritual…...

7+ mon, 1+ week ago   (335+ words) All images in this post are in the public domain The central event of that year was the great Columbian Exposition in Chicago, which was built around a spectacular “White City.” That is referenced directly in a poem composed that…...

8+ mon, 16+ hour ago   (412+ words) Or, rather, they’ve surely been dying for some time, but we are hearing about it more and more. And I was gutted, because I know Hagerstown very well. Hagerstown was where my mother grew up. I visited my grandparents there…...