Ideas

We often conflate our vocation with God’s purpose for our lives. Is that biblical?

The problem is not when the Christian is in the conflict—it’s when the conflict is in the Christian.

There’s already a local institution that meets our moment’s many social needs. It’s called church.

Suspending international adoptions hurts children who already have waiting families.

His economic policies were later used by Pharoah to oppress the Hebrews in Exodus. What can this teach us about politics today?

Five pathways toward breaking the cycle of political outrage, depression, and lament without settling for passivity.

My work in conflict management helped me develop an effective way to navigate sensitive topics. Here’s what I found.

My daughter will wrestle with worldliness in her education, just as I did. That’s why I want to be around to help.

Interfaith engagement that doesn’t devolve into a soupy multiculturalism is difficult—and necessary in our diverse democracy.

The pro-life movement has forgotten its roots. We need to get back to basics.

As the famed disability advocate nears 50 years of ministry, a friend reflects on her legacy.

Prayer, fasting, and reading Scripture in community make our days more spacious.

Reckoning with a half-century of American evangelicals’ pursuit of a “seat at the table.”

The candidate’s “unburdened by what has been” and “coconut tree” lines push her party toward a troubling partisan divide over the past itself.

Jesus used his final moments with his disciples before the crucifixion to heal his opponent’s ear—and model the way of love.

Political violence looms large in our national history, to our shame. It does not have to define our future.