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To my family and friends in Europe and beyond: Understanding Americans Thank you for the calls and texts expressing your dismay over what has transpired in the US. I share your apprehensions. I don’t know what will become of our democracy or yours. I, too, am watching in real time the dismantling, demolishing of ourContinue reading “A Letter to my Family in Europe”

Catholic, Anabaptist, Orthodox and similarly formed Christian parents of school age children should opt out of ‘biblical education’ in public schools because the interpretations of the Scriptures being promoted in those settings are incompatible with our faith. We are not fundamentalists, dispensationalists, cessationists, literalists, militarists, revisionists, apocalypticists, dominionists, triumphalists, nationalists, or Zionists. We do notContinue reading “Religion in Schools?”

Christians worldwide, but especially those in the US, are deeply engaged with, active in, and vocal about politics. Concerned, often fearful, that our nation has lost its bearings, and is now heading in a dangerous direction, they feel morally compelled to plunge into the political fray, lest we lose our country to the forces ofContinue reading “Why Christians Should Not Seek Political Power”

And, what does religion (of all things) have to do with it? Unless you have been living under a rock, you have probably noticed that we, as a society, as a people, as a family are fiercely divided, emphasis upon fiercely. Recounting the depth and degree of hostility, anger, fear, vitriol and animus, one towardContinue reading “Why Are We So Divided?”

Since so many Christians want the US to be a Christian nation, it only stands to reason that Jesus would make a good President. But, in actuality, if he were to abdicate his throne, abandon rulership of his kingdom and assume the presidency of a worldly empire, (something the devil offered to him) he wouldContinue reading “If Jesus Were President”

I wish Christians would engage in a thoughtful, and thorough dialogue about christian nationalism. Religious nationalism is the belief that nations should be governed by, directed by, and ruled by the laws of a particular religion (in this case, christianity). And, some christian nationalists further believe that in order to preserve what they view asContinue reading “Christian Nationalism”