We may not notice how empire shows up in our world today, leading many observers to call the U.S. today’s equivalent of first-century Rome. Our lack of awareness sometimes keeps us from seeing how we as Christians need to be opposing the empire’s current manifestations.
Read MoreParker J. Palmer warns about putting too much trust, or at least the wrong kind of trust, in church doctrines and customs.
Read MoreYou Lost Me is about young insiders—young adults who once thought of themselves as Christians but have left the church or even left the Christian faith.
Read MoreCurrent events may therefore reveal the need to question some of our previously unquestioned assumptions about our country’s ways of functioning. They may show the need for a fresh look at our nation and its history.
Read MoreIn his intriguing book American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America (Penguin, 2011), Colin Woodard points out that there has never really been one America. From the beginning, there have been several Americas.
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