Is Trump the Anti-Christ?

A Baptist minister in Stuart’s Draft, VA, was fired for calling Donald Trump the anti-Christ and for saying that anyone who votes for him is not a Christian. This happened…

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Your Theology is Your Opinion

As state Supreme Courts – and the US SC, eventually – prepare to hear cases about public schools and governments force-feeding religion on unwilling participants, I think it is important…

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Breaking up is hard to do

You all know that I was a United Methodist until I was 39, serving as a pastor for 15 years before I left and became United Church of Christ. I…

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Objectively Bad?

As a Christian, I struggle with judgment. I try really hard to not judge people based on appearance and have pretty much gotten over my biases about that. Still, occasionally,…

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No Room For Difference

We have seen a disturbing shift in America these last 50 years, and I don’t see it as a shift for the better. For much of our history, the dominant…

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Violence Instead of Reason

I know that all of us have been horrified by the destruction that has wreaked havoc on much of the South and some of the Midwest recently and have been…

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Words Matter

I use words for a living. I speak, preach, teach, and write every day. I am called upon to pray at events, often at the spur of the moment. What…

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Man or Bear?

Since this past spring, a question has been going viral on the internet: men were asked if they would rather have their daughter encounter a man or a bear in…

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