There’s a common thread in two seemingly unrelated cases in the news right now: The Christians singing worship songs on a commercial airline flight and the former high school football coach in Washington State who insisted on holding public prayers on the 50-yard line after games.
I hear it all the time. People explain their devotion to Christ by referring to having “fallen in love with Jesus.” I get it. They’re trying to describe the intense existential experience of gratitude and admiration they have for Jesus....
Washington, D.C., has long been a “minority majority” city. It isn’t any more. In 1970, more than 71% of the population was Black. According to the 2010 census, the percentage was 59%. Now, though, according to the latest census, that number has dropped to 41%....
One of my dearest friends lost both parents to suicide. Her father died when she was a teenager, and her mother passed away more recently. I was stunned and speechless when she told me about her mother’s death. How does anyone endure that kind of loss?...
When I refer to the dangers of a digital Bible, I mean “digital” in two different ways. First, it is about the practice of interpreting the Bible as a collection of discrete packets of information instead of a continuously flowing narrative....
