In 1988, I had been a Christian for a couple years, when I first really read Matthew 25, “..when I was hungry you fed me, when I was naked you clothed me…” and James 1:27 “Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in...

10. Local Food Banks We’ve experienced two recessions in the 2000s, and the second is the worst Americans have seen in decades.  This has meant that even more people rely on food banks to meet their daily needs as unemployment rises and incomes stagnate and fall.  The USDA’s recent figures...

Donald Miller is the best-selling author of Blue Like Jazz, Searching for God Knows What, Through Painted Deserts and To Own a Dragon. He is currently writing his fifth book, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years, which explores the principles of story-telling in our lives. A feature film is in the works...

Dr. George R. Tiller, a high-profile abortion doctor who performed abortions late into the third trimester, was gunned down on Sunday while handing out bulletins in the foyer of his Wichita, Kansas church. The suspect, Scott Roeder, is being described by the media, his acquaintances, and his family as...

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Yes: this is a long post. Yes: it requires careful reading. Yes: it’s about an issue over which we social progressives might be divided. Still, I invite you to read, pray, and thoughtfully respond, so that we might have constructive dialog. Now that the election is over, it might be easy to...

I meant to post this some days ago, but the whole vacation thing last week threw me off. Douglas Johnson is the Legislative Director for National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), the largest pro-life organization in the United States. NRLC has been fighting the legislative battle against abortion since...

I left our Saturday evening church service early and noticed a woman stuff voter guides underneath windshield. I sighed, approached her and politely asked her to stop. She hadn’t gotten approval to post literature at our campus. If she wanted to seek proper approval she could resume her work on...

As my friend Ali pointed out, the Burnside Blog’s coverage of the 2008 Presidential Election has certainly leaned in one direction. She claimed posts critical of John McCain outnumbered posts critical of Barack Obama 3 to 1, and that estimate was probably kind. I thought I’d take a moment,...

As I think about the abortion debate in Christian culture and the political arena I am both heartened and disappointed. First, I am terribly frustrated that politicians use it to grab votes but have yet to do anything substantive to reduce the number of abortions in this country. Second, I have a...