Death Penalty Featured This Time Last Year, I Was Singing My Friend to Death I was his spiritual advisor. This is what it means to accompany someone inside an execution chamber.
Faith in the News Featured The Cross and the Swastika How the Nazis used Christianity, and what it means for America's churches
Church Featured Barmen Declaration 2.0: Resisting Christian Nationalism The Confessing Church stood against fascism in 1934 . It’s time to do it again.
Canadian Politics Ontario’s Poverty Plan: Have You Tried Not Being Poor? Poverty isn’t a personal failure — it’s a policy choice
Death Penalty The Firing Squad Is Back - And Maybe That's a Good Thing How the illusion of humane execution helps to keep the death penalty alive
Death Penalty Inside an Execution Chamber: A Canadian’s Warning on the Death Penalty Debate How new polls, political rhetoric, and lived experience clash over capital punishment
JD Vance Wants Love to Stay in Line — But Love Refuses The Gospel calls for radical love, not a chain of command.
Paula White and the Prosperity Gospel: A False Prophet in the White House How prosperity gospel distorts faith, shields power, and betrays the prophetic tradition.
Death Penalty Featured Doug Ford’s Call for the Death Penalty Is No Joke — It’s a Dangerous Step Backward The Ontario premier’s words reveal either a profound ignorance of Canada’s legal system or a calculated attempt to rile up his political base.
What The Neverending Story Teaches us About Hope The Nothing wins when we stop imagining a better world — here’s how to keep believing in change.
US Politics When the Government Decides What Counts as 'Biblical' Again and again, rulers have sought to wield faith as a weapon, shaping doctrine to suit their own ends. It is a tale as old as empire.
Sermons God Bless Us...Every(one)! It's Christmas! Christ comes for everyone and every one, and we are called to bless all with compassion and care.
Sermons When the Time Comes Mary’s courage echoes through time, inviting us to dream, trust, and say yes to a love that will cost something.
Sermons The Present Tense Stars falling. Oceans rising. Sometimes everything falling apart might just be hopeful.
Sermons Lord, have mercy. How many times had Bartimaeus asked for mercy before Jesus answered his call? Ramiro Gonzales asked for mercy too—for himself, for his people, for those who hated him.
News We pray. We rise. We go. Trump is a product, and until we can address the root of his appeal (and therefore his power) it doesn’t matter whether he is in the White House or not — there will always be another demagogue waiting to take his place.
Death Penalty The Emotional and Moral Impact of Five Executions in Six Days So much death in so little time highlights the devastating emotional toll of the death penalty—not just on the condemned, but on their families, prison staff, and society as a whole.
Sermons All things go! All things grow! In the layered symphony of creation, we are not separate from nature, but part of its rhythm. Discover how Genesis reminds us that our task is not dominion, but harmony with the world around us.
Sermons Blessed be the Mystery of Love No spreadsheet or flow chart can help us to make sense of this Holy Mystery that is Wholly Love.
Death Penalty Thoughts on the eve of the execution of Ruben Gutierrez In the wake of Ramiro Gonzales’s execution, I find myself wrestling with the overwhelming urge that I should be doing something. The problem is, I don’t know what that something is.
Sermons Be kind. Work hard. Make good choices. What peace do we give? What peace do we leave? What is our part in aiding this aching love to roll on?
Death Penalty "Warden, I'm ready." Ramiro Gonzales was executed on June 26th. Broadview Magazine was kind enough to publish a reflection on our final days and hours together.
Death Penalty Faith. Hope. Love. Ramiro remains ever calm and faithful as we wait to hear from the Board of Pardons and Paroles.
Death Penalty Clemency Appeal for Ramiro Gonzales Please consider adding your name to Ramiro's clemency petition.
