Perhaps, the people who don’t want others to complain have nothing to complain about.
A Short Rant on the Conceit of Always Being a Moderate
Why you may be all wrong because you think nobody can be all right.
Why you may be all wrong because you think nobody can be all right.
Taking Too Much for Granted
Instead, we need to exercise our moral imaginations.
Instead, we need to exercise our moral imaginations.
Why the Church and Charity Aren’t Enough
The church doesn't have the capacity to do for people what they used to do before the government took over those services.
The church doesn’t have the capacity to do for people what they used to do before the government took over those services.
Jesus Was a Lousy Messiah
— Jesus was an incredibly unlikely messiah. Though Matthew and Luke later shaped his genealogy in an attempt to establish his royal messianic bona fides, Jesus was born to humble parents from a nowhere town in a backwater state among desperate peasants—peasants who had little hope of relief from what they assumed was the irremediably…
The Heartbreaking Ballad of White Evangelicals . . . I mean, Aunt Linda
What happens when everybody else can see what you can’t see?
What happens when everybody else can see what you can’t see?
Reconciling Christianity with the Death of Immigrant Children
Whether someone is actively trying to kill you in your hometown or someone in a foreign country is willing to stand by and watch you die, the end result is the same. Death is death no matter how you get there.
Whether someone is actively trying to kill you in your hometown or someone in a foreign country is willing to stand by and watch you die, the end result is the same. Death is death no matter how you get there.
Finding Peace
What if we could live together without fear of the ulterior motives behind someone else’s agenda?
What if we could live together without fear of the ulterior motives behind someone else’s agenda?
Learning To Love the Silence
When the silence speaks the truth to us, the suffering surfaces.
When the silence speaks the truth to us, the suffering surfaces.
Imagining a New World for the People Who Always Come in Last
The current order will be subverted, and a new reality will begin to take shape, built on the needs of the people who always come in last in the current world.
The current order will be subverted, and a new reality will begin to take shape, built on the needs of the people who always come in last in the current world.
Staring Down the Apocalypse
The rich and powerful don’t cling to threads of an apocalyptic desire for deliverance. Why would they? Deliverance from what?
The rich and powerful don’t cling to threads of an apocalyptic desire for deliverance. Why would they? Deliverance from what?
WWJND? (What Would Jesus Never Do?)
If only there were more evangelicals who were preoccupied with figuring out how Jesus might respond to the world we live in.
— Remember when “WWJD?” was a thing? What would Jesus do? Remember that? It was supposed to be a reminder to people (evangelicals mostly) to stop and ask themselves how Jesus might respond to any given situation, and then act accordingly. Oh, come on. You remember, right? The bracelets, the t-shirts, the dog tags, the…
Dear Evangelicals, You Don’t Realize How You Sound to Everybody Else
Why would they ever think anything other than that you hate and fear them?
Why would they ever think anything other than that you hate and fear them?
Justice, Not Charity
To choose to give charity is to take advantage of the power and resources at your disposal for those whom you think are worthy of your attention.
To choose to give charity is to take advantage of the power and resources at your disposal for those whom you think are worthy of your attention.
A Prayer for Election Day 2018
Social justice activist and minister Derek Penwell offers this prayer for Election Day 2018.
Social justice activist and minister Derek Penwell offers this prayer for Election Day 2018.
Learning the Language of Lament
Communal lamentation is a very public cry of despair in the face of injustice.
Communal lamentation is a very public cry of despair in the face of injustice.