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Why remembering the civil-rights alliance is necessary—and not enough This series asks what Black and Jewish Americans need to say to one another...
White Theology and White Power XV The history traced through this series leaves Christians who care about public life with an uncomfortable problem....
White Theology and White Power IX James Cone wrote Black theology from a location that dominant American theology had often treated as marginal....
White Theology and White Power Part VI Atlantic slavery did not begin with a fully developed ideology of biological race. Europeans enslaved...
A Theology of Social Action and Justice VIII Modern societies often imagine the person as an independent individual who enters social relationships by...
Theological traditions have interpreted the divine image in several complementary ways. Substantive accounts emphasize human capacities such as reason...
Private ownership can protect families, distribute decision-making, encourage initiative, reward labor, and give persons meaningful control over their...
Divine holiness is sometimes imagined primarily as separation from personal impurity. Scripture certainly commands moral distinctiveness, but holiness...
A Theology of Social Action and Justice – Part IV A congregation may teach its members to pray, read Scripture, avoid personal immorality, share...
A Theology of Social Action and Justice — Part III Christian theology has often treated social action as something added to faith after the...
A Theology of Social Action and Justice — Part II The Social Gospel enlarged Christianity’s moral imagination by insisting that sin could become...
A Theology of Social Action and Justice — Part II From the Early Church to the Social Gospel Christian social action did not begin with the modern...
What is the Church For? After two thousand years of Christian social action, the central question remains: what is the church for? The history...
MAGA, Christian Nationalism, and the Political Instrumentalization of the Church The alliance between white evangelical Christianity and Donald Trump...
The Moral Majority and the Rise of the Christian Right In June 1979, Jerry Falwell and conservative political organizers founded the Moral Majority....
Organized People, Organized Money, and the Institutional Church A congregation with a thousand members, a building, a budget, trusted leaders,...
Rich Christians, Productive Christians, and the Battle over Biblical Economics Two book titles captured a major evangelical argument about poverty and...
Lausanne and the Search for an Evangelical Social Doctrine Catholic social teaching resembles a cathedral built across generations. Councils, popes,...
The Evangelical Road Not Taken At Thanksgiving in 1973, more than fifty evangelical leaders gathered in Chicago and confessed that their churches had...
When the Oppressed Became Theologians Civil Rights, Black Theology, and the Struggle for Liberation Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from...
Catholic Social Teaching: Christianity’s Most Systematic Social Doctrine Catholic social teaching is sometimes mistaken for a collection of...
Abolition and the Birth of the Independent Black Church In 1787, Black worshipers at St. George’s Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia were...
Reformation, Colonialism, and Christian Dissent The Reformation shattered Western Christendom, translated Scripture into ordinary languages, and...
When the Persecuted Church Gained Power: The church’s hardest test may begin when persecution ends Legalization expanded Christianity’s ability to...
When Christians Had No Political Power Before Christians could influence emperors or courts, their public power came from communities of care,...
No Needy Person Among Them: The Material Meaning of Resurrection The earliest followers of Jesus preached resurrection, but they also reorganized...
A History of Christian Social Action, Social Justice, and Political Power The Jewish Roots of Christian Social Conscience Christian social ethics is...
A History of Christian Social Action, Social Justice, and Political Power The Great Commission Was Never Limited to Evangelism The command to make...
A History of Christian Social Action, Social Justice, and Political Power The Great Commission Was Never Only About Evangelism The command to make...
More than 50 business, civic and community leaders from Boston’s Indian and Jewish communities gathered recently for a convening designed not simply...
As I help Israel celebrate its 78th birthday, I do so in the shadow of war in Gaza, confrontation with Iran, rising antisemitism not only in the...
The Journey Continues “Hear, O Israel: The Lord is our God, the Lord is one.”— Deuteronomy 6:4 “These words that I command you today shall be...
Listening for the World to Come “Hear, O Israel: The Lord is our God, the Lord is one.”— Deuteronomy 6:4 “They shall not hurt or destroy on...
“Hear, O Israel: The Lord is our God, the Lord is one.”— Deuteronomy 6:4 “Let my people go, so that they may worship/serve Me.”— Exodus...
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