U2’s America
U2’s America: a promised land for refugees, safeguarded by (filthy rich) pop star prophets, subverted by the wrong sort of elected officials. There are no blue-collar workers and no rural communities
A blessing for visitors
What does it mean to make the liturgy more inviting? Episcopalians believe in welcoming others, especially in church, but inviting is different from welcoming.
The surprising story of the Religious Right
Williams traces the Religious Right back to the surge of fundamentalist public presence that followed the First World War.
The Table: A post-political liturgy
In the wake of the inauguration, I propose the following. Churches should create a community-oriented event called the Table. The goal here is to create a space in which political partisanship takes a back seat to human interaction, and thus defuses fear of the political “other.”
The legacy and future of the polarizing Reformation
Marred by hagiography and mired in heresiology, the Reformation is deeply polarizing.
Moving beyond ‘I Kissed Dating Goodbye’
Recent years have seen a growing backlash against Harris’s youthful literary indiscretions.
Hate your own political party
Jesus’ words might mean, “Whoever does not hate his own political party cannot be my disciple.”
The cruelty of Christmas
A part of me hates Christmas; a part of me curses Christmas — and the infant Christ just lays there and stares.