Cover Story
The Religious Right has hijacked American evangelicalism and made it an aberration in the global evangelical community.
Jesus spoke all these things in parables; he did not say anything to them without using a parable. -Matthew 13:34
Story penetrates our souls and is woven into our being.
I discovered O'Connor when I was in college in the North and took a course in Southern writers and the South.
All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful. -Flannery O'Connor
This radical Jesus, this social gospel, this promise of liberation are always and forever in the back of my mind.
Permeated by its own brand of consumerism, church-ianity force-feeds me a conditional message, requiring my allegiance to authority and beliefs, and masks it all as "faith."
I grew up in rural Mississippi, a black girl who lived "out in the booneys," fairly isolated from peers outside school.
To be a married couple in our 20s and Christian means exploring options and making choices for our future together. One of these choices is a commitment to intentional community.
On a cold, piney evening last November on the Day of the Dead, residents of the Guatemalan town of Santiago were holding a night-long vigil in the town cemetery.