Everyone is familiar with the ubiquitous pharmaceutical ads that encourage the viewer to ask their doctor about Abilify for depression, Skyrizi for plaque psoriasis, or Linzess for irritable bowel syndrome. At some point during these commercials, which show grim-faced recluses…
It looks like Kamala Harris and Tim Walz want God on their side this election. Does that surprise? After all, this is the party that made its bones as an anti-God party and even booed God at one national convention….
The church is shrinking, but it’s getting stronger as well. That is the paradox afoot on the American religious scene. The number of unchurched — “nones” and “dones” — are skyrocketing, while the remainers, the ones who stick it out,…
Without the Resurrection, said the Apostle Paul, our faith is in vain. Easter, of course, celebrates the Resurrection of Christ. Other than the birth of Christ commemorated at Christmas, no other day is as sacred to Christians as Easter Sunday….
The church bodies of conservative Protestantism are seeing the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7 for the unspeakable and indefensible outrage that it is and are justifying Israel’s militant response as a legitimate application of “just war” doctrine. To…
Rev. Dr. Rebecca Todd Peters, an ordained minister of the Presbyterian Church-USA (PC-USA), recently treated a Unitarian Universalist congregation to a fiery sermon. Was it about heaven, hell, salvation, and the need to repent and believe the Gospel — messages…
It is no secret that American colleges and universities are increasingly becoming Orwellian dystopias. Those who dissent from the prevailing orthodoxies often survive by keeping their mouths shut and their heads down. Concerns about the transformation of much of higher…
The holy month of Pride, as it has been called, gave us plenty of lowlights during its 30-day run of infamy. There were the Bud Light, Target, and Kohl’s fiascoes, on the secular side, not to mention the Pride flag…
When my Dad met my Mom for the first time, he threw her straight into a lake without a single word. Debbie Bailey came up sputtering mad. “You jerk!” she called him, among other things. That is not what one…
Jesus’ “transgressive move from death to life” in his resurrection “def[ied] expectations and social norms” and “stoke[d] the flames” of a new “possibility”: You, too, can be transgender. At least, that’s according to Eric Busby and Brendan Nee, students at…
