Jesus isn’t calling us to be perfect but rather to act more in the image and likeness of God. He tells us not to fall into complacency and love lazily and instead step up and face the challenge of ...

Readers of the Bible are thus invited to engage in a double act of moral imagination. First, they must imagine that they themselves, and not merely their ancestors, were redeemed from slavery in Egypt ...

On June 1, 2020, Donald Trump processed less than a quarter of a mile from the White House to St. John’s Episcopal Church. Though St. John’s had been damaged by protesters the night before, he did not ...

If you feel heavy, you are not alone. In the past two weeks, America has been reminded — once again, with a severity that is hard to overstate — that words have weight. They can heal. They can divide.

Biblical literacy is at an all-time low in America, with only 20% of Americans claiming to believe the Bible is the literal Word of God. As if that weren’t bad enough, only 11% of churchgoers in the U ...

Howard Dean, the former governor of Vermont, was in the thick of his campaign for the presidency in 2004 when he committed a verbal gaffe that was literally biblical in proportion. No, not his ...