The Church’s Challenge in the Age of Trump

January 31, 2017 By J. R. Daniel Kirk

The church’s challenge in the age of Trump, perhaps its biggest challenge, is to somehow follow Jesus as “light in the darkness” when light is shining out from every corner of our country and our world. For a people whose hero proclaimed release to the captives, recovery of sight to the blind, the advent of the justice of God, we find ourselves in very good company these days. The best Christian social movements have always been willing to work toward common aims... Read more

Circle of Moral Responsibility

January 23, 2017 By J. R. Daniel Kirk

Who is my neighbor? Read more

The Good News of Inauguration Day

January 20, 2017 By J. R. Daniel Kirk

Today is the day that many of us have been dreading. And, yes, many have been longing for it, counting down to it for the past months and years. But the majority of my people, even folks who aren’t sure that they’re my people anymore given my theological and political leanings, are not happy about today’s inauguration. Trump brings too much brutality. Too much instability. Too much inability to tell the truth. So what on earth could be the good news... Read more

Religion and the Good of the World

January 17, 2017 By J. R. Daniel Kirk

Last week I went to a talk. And what I really, really wanted, more than anything else, was for the speaker to fire the silver bullet. I wanted him to convince me of what I have too long doubted. I wanted him to show me that the globalized world needs religion so that its people can flourish. In defense of the speaker, let me say that I’m not entirely sure that his goal was to offer the silver bullet I... Read more