The ‘Least of These’ and the Quest for a Post-Christian Conscience
This piece was adapted from Russell Moore’s newsletter. Subscribe here. Every few years, someone makes the point that, “actually,” the “least of these” passage from the Gospel of Matthew doesn’t really have anything to do with how we treat the poor or the stranger or the hungry. The “brothers” to which Jesus refers, the argument goes, are Read more…
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The Bible Doesn’t Fit an Information Age
This piece was adapted from Russell Moore’s newsletter. Subscribe here. I recommended the Gospel of Mark to an unbeliever. He read it and found it “creepy.” That’s exactly the response I wanted. This young man is probably an atheist or an agnostic but has lived in such a secular environment that he doesn’t seem to think of Read more…
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A Hurricane Doesn’t Tell Us Who to Hate
This piece was adapted from Russell Moore’s newsletter. Subscribe here. My family is from one of the most hurricane-prone places in the United States—our hometown was virtually wiped from the map by Hurricane Katrina. Because of this, we spend hurricane season tracking each tropical depression with dread and then, often, relief, when the storm moves somewhere out Read more…
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How the ‘Jezebel Spirit’ Keeps Empowering Sin
This piece was adapted from Russell Moore’s newsletter. Subscribe here. Early in our marriage, when my wife and I had just moved to a new city while I was starting doctoral work, we attended a worship service—knowing almost no one there but hoping to make friends. The preacher, who mumbled a bit, was trying to make a Read more…
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The Uneasy Conscience of Christian Nationalism
Too many of us assume that Christian nationalism promises a road map to a New Jerusalem or a New Rome or a New Constantinople. That’s understandable, given the triumphal and martial rhetoric of would-be theocrats. But what if the actual road map is to none of those places? What if the new Christian nationalism wants Read more…
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Will Your Presidential Vote Send You to Hell?
This piece was adapted from Russell Moore’s newsletter. Subscribe here. Since by nature of my work I’ve had to weigh in on a lot of controversial issues over the years, I’ve been cussed out a time or two. Sometimes, I’ve been yelled at with, “God damn you!” When an unbeliever says that, it’s one thing. Christians, though, Read more…
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