Race powerfully shapes the American experience. Race will shape our lives and our sense of self whet...

The survival of American democracy may depend upon defeating Donald Trump in 2020. Many highly quali...

Ralph Northam's failure to resign offers yet further proof that he should do so: he doesn't get it. ...

Despite white-Christian support for Donald Trump's wall, authentic Christian tradition remains an in...

Christians are supposed to pray for our enemies, so I've been praying for Donald Trump. I have not b...

As the midterm elections loom, I've had repeated flashbacks to the moment when, in a grim little roa...

In the Ford-Kavanaugh hearings, Republicans on the Judiciary Committee barged straight into every wo...

Watching politics has come to feel something like watching the projected track of a mid-Atlantic hur...

  I finally had lunch with Bill last week. It took us a while to get together because his calendar i...

As a physician and bioethicist, I have spent the last 30 years caring for people during their most v...

The astounding cruelty of Trumpcare has elicited appropriate outrage: it's a tax cut for millionaire...

Conservatives complain incessantly about "liberal bias" in the mainstream media. This conflict has e...

The Religious Right paved the way for Donald Trump: for generations now they have draped false pie...

 As the Trump administration flounders, the progressive Left has an unprecedented opportunity to rec...

[Note: in ordinary times, this would have been my next book. But the times are too urgent to wait fo...

 Like most of my friends, I've been fending off depression ever since the election. For my own menta...

Opposition to Mr. Trump risks fragmentation because there's simply too much to oppose, all of it hap...

Donald Trump has been blowing a deliberate smokescreen with his ill-considered and unconstitutional ...

Evangelical pastor Timothy Keller told New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof that he's probably ...

Theory #1: Consumer Choice.  Here's the claim: how I vote reflects and expresses my identity. I sele...

Major regional bishops ("Primates") of the Anglican Communion have lobbed a bomb in the American cul...

I want to whack certain people with a Bible verse. When ostentatiously "Christian" politicians malig...

The predictable online conflagration has followed from Ross Douthat's broadsides against academic th...

The upcoming report from the Vatican Synod on the Family will be scrutinized six ways from Sunday fo...

According to a recent study by the Pew Forum (April 4, 2015), sixty percent of American Catholics ...

We need a name for ourselves. We need a label for the common ground shared by reasonable people if...

With Kevin McCarthy's departure from the race for House Majority Leader, we face the very real possi...

I have tasted the salt on another man's bread. The professor made much of the image, which was Dante...