The solution is finding a reliable person to check in with.

Ableism is lived out purposefully, accidentally, and unknowingly.

It’s so [easy] to see the one disabled person and say, She needs a cure so she can fit into our world.

"As people become more afraid and insecure, they do not know how to access their own soul, move to prayer, or toward their better instincts. At that point, the easy and comforting response is to quote some Scripture, some authority, or some legal principle. It takes away one’s anxiety rather...

"Most of us have been led to believe that prophets 'foretell' the future. That is true, and it is also misleading. It is not the point here. Prophets are seers of the big patterns; they see what is always and forever true. Prophets like Isaiah know how God acts by watching and listening, and they...

The person who enjoys privilege always knows less about the person who lives under the weight of that privilege than the people who are actually under it.

The history of conquest is a scourge on the human condition. A lingering one.

The harder things are to say, the more necessary they are to say.

If God’s name is love, then God compels us to resist the fall to sinful violence by pushing back with muscular resolve against the social structures that confine our capacity to care. A universalist God for a tragic era is not a gauzy, hymn-singing force of personal devotion that draws us...