justice

These smart things are good and beautiful and true, from: Gershom Gorenberg, Tara Isabella Burton,...

We know we need that forgiveness, desperately, and the realization that such forgiveness is out...

"It is, you might well say, an elementary matter of justice."

"Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your doings from before my eyes;...

Smart things from Kristin Du Mez, Jemar Tisby, Nicholas Wolterstorff, Adam Serwer, and Toni Bond...

I would like to see Colin Kaepernick sign with the New York Mets. There are...

I'm enjoying the new "Cloak and Dagger" series, even though it doesn't require super-powers to...

"Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore, love is the fulfilling of the law."

There are no heroes working for CoreCivic, the incarceration-for-profit company that trades in human misery...

"The people in the past who convinced themselves to do unspeakable things were no less...

We have become hyper-vigilant about not being perceived as hyper-vigilant. Nothing alarms us more than...

Yes, white evangelicalism created Scott Pruitt, but not in the way the article imagines. Also:...

If you were hoping for a brand new religious-right direct-mail fundraising racket run by Johnnie...

The family of groundhogs that have lived under our backyard shed have been replaced by...

Billy Graham's anti-Communism was an essential aspect of his message, his persona, and his popular...

Something is ch-ch-ch-changing. Someone is giving a damn. And, just by doing so, they're demonstrating...

It would be fine if the commandment said something like "Thou shalt not deliberately bear false...

Came across this today on the Twitters, an important point well-expressed by Jemar Tisby:

The real dispute here is not between liberal and conservative traditions, but rather about the...

"When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the...

At this point in the sermon, pastors often balk and attempt to do the impossible...

You should always work hard and do your best. This is a moral obligation. That...

It's a bit odd to be writing about this right after President Trump's audaciously Nixonian...

"Yes, the strong gets more while the weak ones fade. Empty pockets don't ever make...

This is the difference between Rosa Parks and Harriet Tubman. Parks effectively and strategically practiced...

President Donald Trump's proposed budget would slash federal funding for the Department of Housing and...

These signs are, on the one hand, a laudable appeal to empathy -- a useful...

"I hate, I despise your festivals, and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies....

"Hate evil and love good, and establish justice in the gate; it may be that...

Wherein I amend my earlier discussion of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, the timid poetry editor who...