I am, as the years go by, less and less convinced that violence is ever the answer.   This is something of a challenge, as my Scots Irish bl...

Boko Haram makes me struggle with my faith. The conversations have been everywhere, about those girls, about their fate.  It's been...

I'm forty-five years old, and I've never punched another human being in anger.  Not once.  Oh, I've come close.  There was tha...

Dear Sam: A couple of years ago, I read my way through your  Letter to A Christian Nation , that bit of provocative neoatheist polemic t...

Having noted the dangerously self-absorbed demonstration being planned for DC this upcoming July 4th in a recent post, it was interesting ...

Given the popular view of Islam among many Americans, the idea of nonviolence as a Muslim virtue might seem something of a stretch.  Shape...

Given the absence of any membership fee for the Occupy Movement, it was perhaps inevitable that there'd be the kind of unpleasantness ...

One of the reasons that community organizing schtuff appeals so much to progressive Christians is that it reminds us of the great and noble ...