August 15, 2017 As a response to the violent clashes between white supremacists and counter demonstrators in Charlottesville, Va., that left a woman dead and 19...
The title of this post is a paraphrase, if you will, of the famous quote by Karl Marx “Religion is the opium of the people.” Marx is ...
Nothing. Historian Kevin Levin has a thought provoking essay on his blog Civil War Memory, about monuments to Confederates located in National Parks. Levin mak...
“And they assembled them at the place that in Hebrew is called Harmagedon.” Revelation 16:16, NRSV The National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA cal...
I was once told that if you were going to be in pastoral ministry you were going to need thick skin, I learned that lesson the hard way and it appears Eugene Pe...
By Amy Eckert “Here I stand, a Middle Eastern woman in the Pulpit of Luther.” So began the sermon delivered by Rev. Najla Kassab at the General Council worship ...
Despite all the talk of mainline decline, Teresa Hord Owens, the first woman of color to lead a mainline denomination, is not in survival mode. “The life that w...
I am fascinated by the assumption that America was founded as a Christian nation. Sure, many of the “founders” were Christian, Protestant Christian mind you, b...
(RNS) An Arizona pastor and immigrant advocate has been elected as the first woman president of the Unitarian Universalist Association. The election of the Rev....
On June 16, 1858 more than 1,000 delegates met in the Springfield, Illinois, statehouse for the Republican State Convention. Lincoln’s friends thought th...