Adam Serwer recently coined the term neighborism to describe "a commitment to protecting the people around you, no matter who they are or where they came from." It stems from the beautiful resistance we've seen in Minneapolis in response to the horrific othering of our government against vulnerable ...

Tony Campolo, the pastor and author famous for calling people to take Jesus' words seriously, once said this:

I have three things I’d like to say today. First, while you were sleeping last night, 30,000 kids died of starvation or diseases related to malnutrition. Second, most of you don’t give a

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Not too long ago, I heard Dr. Reggie Williams offer a profound analogy for our times. He talked about swimming in above-ground pools as a child. One of his favorite things to do was to walk around the pool and get the water to flow in one direction. If he did this with his friends, it created a powe...

I don't normally do movie reviews, but after numerous people asked me what I thought of Wake Up Dead Man, I figured I should give it a watch. It's my first Knives Out movie, so I wasn't sure what I was getting into. When the movie begins with a young priest (Father Jud) who is reassigned to work wit...

A couple of my kids have gotten into a new toy called a Bitzee. If you're unfamiliar with this latest fad, it's a digital pet or character you take care of. When I was a child, we had something similar in the form of the Tamagachis. One of my kids is taking care of dogs while another has dinosaurs. ...

My favorite Christmas story is A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. I read the book every December, and we watch The Muppet Christmas Carol every Christmas Eve (which is obviously the best film depiction by far).

It's easy to think that A Christmas Carol is a story about greed and about how rich p...

There’s a strange irony buried in a lot of modern evangelicalism: We’ve built a version of religion that works beautifully for the individual… and often works terribly for the world those individuals live in.

Christianity as practiced in much of the U.S. has become a highly personalized self-improv...

I’ve spent the past week in Spain wandering through winding cobblestone streets, drinking a ton of café con leche, and learning about Catalonia’s long, complicated relationship with the rest of Spain. It turns out this is European history I never learned in school. The Catalan people have a deep and...

Naming your child after someone you know carries a significant weight.

I was reading through Luke's genealogy record recently (those verses that everyone loves) and one name in particular stood out to me. Luke's version focuses on a genealogy through Joseph to Jesus, and it runs through King David'...

I'm going to give you a sentence, and I want you to consider whether you think it is true or false. It's about a rule in baseball that you may not be aware of. Ready?

If a player catches a baseball with their hat, the batter automatically gets three bases.

This means that if an outfielder acci...