Human Worth

Is human life intrinsically valuable?

Does Christianity liberate - or oppress - humanity?

Shining A Light On Slavery

Slavery is ultimately a violation of very purpose, for the one enslaved and the one who enslaves. How will we shine the light on slavery today?

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Suffer the Children

What I remember most about Katie was her large, brown eyes.(1) From those large eyes fell even larger tears as she...

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3 Precious Words for This Troubled Soul

"It has been happening most mornings recently. I’ll wake up feeling crushed and exhausted. Condemnation. I’m doing everything wrong. And everyone knows it."

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A Seat at the Table

My husband and I raced through a television show on Netflix in the dark hours of ripe nightfall and early morning. We...

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Does the Bible Condone Slavery?

There is no doubt that the Bible has been used to justify horrible atrocities throughout history, including slavery and racism.

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The Transformative Power of Empathy

In the hug felt ‘round the world in 1989, First Lady Barbara Bush began the slow process of de-stigmatizing the simple action of touching someone with HIV.(1) It was an...

Every Tribe and Tongue

Fifty years ago, Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated, killed for his efforts to create a society in which all people accepted each other as equals. It was another one of those...

In This House

As a young girl, I had the unique opportunity to travel to South Africa. We stayed for a month in December when I was just five years old. My father’s parents and sister had...

The Forgettable Power of Empathy

Perched above the altar in St. Mark’s Basilica in Venice hang the Ciborium Columns.1 Its artist is unknown. Constructed in the early 1300s from alabaster, the columns hold...

What Does it Mean to be Human? Part 3

What do you consider sacred in your life? Is your life more sacred than someone else’s? Our society struggles with determining what is sacred and even which lives are sacred.

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