The first Easter sermon was delivered by women, and the men who heard it decided it was nonsense.

Luke doesn't soften this. He tells us the women came back from the tomb with the news that would become the center of everything Christians believe today, and "the story sounded like nonsense to the m...

We often refer to the strange act of boiling frogs to describe how to change something slowly. The idea referenced is that you can boil a frog as long as you do it slowly rather than all at once. Like many things I learned as a kid, this one doesn't hold up. Real frogs become increasingly agitated a...

A handful of baseball players recently wrote Bible verses on their hats. And I think it was the exact opposite of what Jesus would have wanted them to do. Let me tell you why.

The San Francisco Giants recently celebrated Pride Night at the stadium. Like many other celebration days (Mother's Day, Me...

I grew up with constant reminders of how unique I was. No one else had my fingerprints. No one else had my particular blend of experiences, talents, and passions. The self-help industry has made billions confirming this. LinkedIn exists almost entirely to prove it. We have built an entire civilizati...

The most-cited proof that America was founded as a Christian nation traces back to a single paper written in 1984. It turns out the author of that paper said the opposite.

There is a claim circulating in Christian nationalist circles that has been repeated so many times by so many prominent people ...

I'm sometimes asked why my theology sounds political. The assumption being that theology and politics are two separate areas and are better off in their respective corners. Except theology has never worked like that.

We often try to "spiritualize" stories and narratives so that we can separate theo...

Recently, a video of fish raining from the sky in Georgia went viral on social media. If you were discerning enough, you could tell the video was AI-generated and not real. But what's unnerving is that if you did a quick Google search about it, the AI summary told you that this story was, in fact, r...

My friend Andrew DeCort recently wrote an article in which he used the phrase "the trauma of survival." He was writing about the attacks on Iran and our country's obsession with power over others through violence. Here was the sentence in which the phrase jumped out to me:

The dear people of Iran

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There's a significant difference between a cross on a shield, a cross hanging on the wall, and a real-life cross used for crucifixion. The first is an image to rally a fight, the second is an image to provide comfort, and the third is an instrument of suffering. And it turns out that the way we see ...

Admittedly, I'm not a fan of country music. I often think of Bob Newhart's joke about it: "I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for those who like country music, denigrate means to 'put down.'"

I don't even know who Charley Crockett is. But I recently saw a qu...