Okay, so I’m back in my hometown visiting my mother, right? And we drive by the church where I grew up.

I was looking at my brother Mike's Facebook page last night and I found an old post about Trump's disastrous press conference in Helsinki.

In the wake of President Trump's disastrous press conference after his meeting in Helsinki with Vladimir Putin, and his ham-handed efforts to walk back some of the things he said there, something has begun to dawn on me about his approach to the presidency and why his supporters are still so maniacally devoted to him.

March proverbially “comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb.” Since most of the Lenten season takes place in March, it can be instructive to remember the vision that guides our worship and practice during Lent: the peaceable kingdom where the lion lies down with the lamb.

Once more the cross stands
at the Place of the Skull.

For my money, one of the most resonant metaphors for the kingdom, or reign, of God in all of Scripture is that of the banquet table.

Donald Trump wants a military parade down Pennsylvania Avenue.

This Sunday is the Second Sunday of Advent, and we will light the candle of Peace. It’s appropriate, then, that in Oslo, Norway, on that same day, Setsuko Thurlow will join the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) in accepting the Nobel Peace Prize.

There’s a funny scene in an episode of Seinfeld in which George Costanza is freaking out about the possibility that he may have cancer.

I’m really tired of this. With stunning regularity we as a nation are faced with mass shooting after mass shooting.

On Wednesday I took part in a day of lobbying with Ohioans for Payday Loan Reform.

How long, O Lord? How long must we live in this culture of violence where nothing ever seems to change?