This election highlights our social decay and cultural rot. This election serves up exactly what we deserve. Pulpits across our country have gone soft and silent on the injustices of the day, substituting the American Dream for the gospel of Christ. We do not tolerate prophets today. We are not very salty and we seemingly have not “let our little light shine.” We are in the middle of a crisis we helped create. Read…
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My visit to Philly: Let hope ring
We’re tired of listening, tired of arguing, tired of walking to an end that will inevitably leave at least half the nation unsatisfied, and maybe angry. But in Philadelphia on a bright October morning, my husband, Chris, and I found hopeful people. Perhaps it’s the reminder that the people who gathered at Independence Hall 240 years earlier to sign first the Declaration of Independence and, later, the U.S. Constitution, fought for something larger than themselves—a truly free society, a democracy that embraced good for all while also committing itself to invaluable individual liberties. Read…
A Thanksgiving Prayer in free verse (2016 edition)
(Editor’s Note: Chicago Tribune columnist Joan Beck annually penned a list of things for which she was grateful, letting lines from a few famous hymns to guide her prayer. With appreciation, we borrow her literary form for our own version again this year.) As we gather together to count the Lord’s blessings, 396 years after […]
Go Church Go!
I think I find Cubs fans so inspiring because I see in them a faint reflection of the same qualities I see in faithful Christians, and churches…a longsuffering group known as Cubs fans have reminded me of a more important group of people whose patient, faithful, hopeful perseverance will eventually be rewarded by victory. Read…
Restoring fractured evangelicalism
The need of the hour is for evangelicals, Southern Baptists in particular, to process this awkward election theologically-not practically, politically, or emotionally—and identify the kingdom-worthy reasons for future political involvement. What are the few things we will stand for-that will bring us together in the name of Jesus Christ? Read…
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