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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

When I first heard the phrase "Generation X," I thought it was in reference to a new generation of black youth who were moved to thought, dialogue, and action...

The majority of Generation X Latinos perceive that our faith sects (both Catholic and Protestant) have little to say about the issues that affect us most: technology-induced future shock, a nati

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."

Faith is for me a mix of intellect straining to understand God, my senses, and what Van Morrison calls "the inarticulate speech of the heart." Music, the water and mountains of my Puget Sound ho

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.

"Peace is our Profession" proclaims the billboard at the gate of the Air Force base where I was born in 1966.

Sometimes I feel as though I do not have time for God. In some ways, this is the legacy that has been passed on to my generation.

This radical Jesus, this social gospel, this promise of liberation are always and forever in the back of my mind.