Since the 2016 election, many have simply stopped trying to understand those with whom they disagree. But we can discuss politics if we ask fair questions and listen, then listen some more.

The way Jesus used table fellowship in the Gospels was morally transformative—but by inclusion, not by exclusion.

In the wake of my reading The Dark Is Rising, one of my New Year’s resolutions is to try to keep pace with time, not lag behind it as I usually do.

Do not expect a return to the days when comity could be coaxed with a little (or a lot) of bourbon and branch.