

Love is Louder: A Straight Christian's Experience at the Gay Pride Parade
The Center for Inclusivity made a call for people of faith and conscience to join them at the Pride parade in Chicago to counter-protest...


The Beatitudes for Our Day
The Beatitudes (A Contemporary Paraphrase): Blessed are the undocumented, the imprisoned, and families on welfare, For theirs is the...


Trumpism: A New Brand of American Racism
If Trump is good at anything, it’s building a brand. What Trump has done over the last year or so has been building a different kind of...


The (in)Justice Conference?: A lament for Cabrini-Green
On June 3rd, thousands of socially conscious Christian young people will descend on Chicago to talk justice. The Justice Conference is an...


Can the Church Tell the Truth?
(Trigger warning: this article references general cases of abuse in the Church and in society.) "Do you feel your most authentic self in...


White Privilege Remix
(Photo credit: Macklemore & Ryan Lewis) By now you've probably heard the new Macklemore song "White Privilege II." Macklemore attempts to...


The Politics of the Pond
Photo Credit: Jens Koning I wrote this reflection for Mission Year's march newsletter to highlight the need for a broader view of the...


The American Delusion (A Poem)
The American Delusion (A poem of resistance and remembrance) The American dream is an illusion Land of opportunity? a Trumped up...


12 Lessons the Oscars Teach Us About Race in America
For the second year in a row, no people of color were nominated for academy awards in any of the four acting categories, leading to...


Dreaming in Color: King's Subversive Vision for Racial Justice
"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be...
























