Once Upon A Christian Nation
BY: CRAIG BUBECK -- Like so many in history, we have always wanted to believe our nation to be the particularly Christian one...
BREAKING: Obama administration stops deporting young immigrants
A day after the Evangelical Immigration Table released their "Evangelical Statement of Principles for Immigration Reform, " the Obama administration stepped forward to announce they will stop deporting young il...
On justice, marriage, and Obama
…because not quite enough has been said about this yet.
If you’ve read a news magazine, been online or watched CNN in the past week, you know that May 9 President Obama finally came out and declared he was f...
Speaking Out Is Complicated (And So Is Staying Silent)
For 24 years of my life, I was a church planter and pastor. At the beginning of those years, I would have gladly called myself an Evangelical. But those years coincided with the rise of the Religious Right...
Young Adults: Forget Church, Follow Jesus
Two recent articles grabbed my attention, partly because they resonate quite a bit with the pieces I’ve written about Why Young Adults Leave Church. It’s also interesting to me that so many people seem to be t...
God's Word to Evangelicals…Through Brian McLaren
A stone's throw from Starbucks - Joe, homeless and a dead ringer for blues singer Robert Johnson, tells Wheaton College freshman Wendy Gullivan that He is God and has a message for the Evangelicals...a mes...
True Meaning of Easter Lies in its Beauty, Not its Violence
Surely the truest way to find the God of Easter is not through contorted extractions of retribution and atonement.
Stop Abusing the Word "Biblical"!
One of the great epidemics of modern American evangelicalism is the abuse of the word “Biblical” by attaching it to causes and ideas that have nothing to do with the Bible. Last month, I was at a meeting with ...
Evangelicals Support Newt Gingrich
The need for Red Letter Christians to no longer be labeled “Evangelicals” became abundantly clear this past Saturday following the South Carolina Republican Primary. Most Evangelicals claim to be politically no...
Sweet Friendship Ahead for Mormons and Evangelical Christians
I have seen a vision of the future of relations between evangelical Christians and Mormons.
It’s going to be sweet.
This vision came, of all places, at Tuesday’s pro-life rally when an old Catholic brother ...