Crosses to Bear 

From its inception, Christianity has been known as the religion of the cross. Among Christians, the cross is a symbol of Christ’s passion and its part in the economy of salvation. To non-Christians, it is what St. Paul termed it: a scandal and a folly. How did a token of degradation inflicted largely on slaves, […]

Donald Trump & Progressive Evangelicals: Moral Superiority Unwarranted

There’s an emerging narrative in progressive and mainstream-media circles that white Evangelicals — and only white Evangelicals — have uniquely betrayed their faith and their fellow believers by voting en masse for Donald Trump. Evangelical votes cast for Trump represent nothing more or less than the grave moral error of choosing politics over God. Evangelical […]