Taking Time to Befriend People on Life’s Run

It has been odd but good: over the last month or so, when I have been jogging through town, people have spontaneously decided to join me. I’m still not sure why. Maybe it’s because I was moving so slowly and they liked the idea of winning an easy race. Or...

Some Baptists Are Eroding Religious Freedom

Jon Meacham, the esteemed Newsweek religion columnist, is right when he says that calling into question Mitt Romney’s faith is “bad for all of us.” Now, before anyone immediately starts to object that I need to keep my opinions strictly in the realm...

S.C. Undermines Immigrants’ Right to Feel Safe

Santos is a fifth-grader at my school. When he was in second grade, he was in my classroom for the first half of the school year. His parents are migrant workers, so when the spring, summer and fall work on South Carolina farms slows and stops with the winter winds,...

Who Will Proclaim Hospitality to a Hostile World?

Editor’s note: Below is part two of a two-part column on immigration and theology. Read part one here. Theology is by definition the result of an interaction between a faith experience and the intellectual and cultural setting in which it finds itself. In...