Those are the words of our neighbors who work in the fields, planting and harvesting the food we eat.

On Sunday, a group of my friends from Coalition of Immokalee Workers began a 200 mile march from Ft. Myers, Fla., to Lakeland, Fla., the headquarters of Publix Grocers....

Dear Ms. Kadaga,

I have visited your beautiful country and come to love it deeply. From the reedy shores of Lake Victoria to the hilly game parks near Lake Edward, I have enjoyed your green land and your amazing wildlife. And even more, from small rural villages to the teeming...

The same day news outlets around the country carried a notable headline -- "Protestants Lose Majority Status in US" -- I was in a jam-packed church, speaking about my new book on Christian identity in a multi-faith world. The article explored recent Pew research about

(RNS) Joe Scarborough said what a lot of Americans are thinking as they watch anti-American protests and embassy attacks in many places across the Muslim world.

"You know why they hate us? They hate us because of their religion, they hate us because of their culture, and they hate us...

A Presbyterian minister enters a Publix grocery store in Florida to buy a sandwich at the deli. Store management calls the police and they escort him from the store, telling him his grocery-shopping privileges have been revoked for a year. What? Why? What's the backstory?

As the Herald...

On this 11th anniversary of 9/11, it's a good day for us to look back and assess the damage.

The damage to buildings long been accounted for, and much has been rebuilt. The damage to the economy has also been debated and estimated -- and replaced by new, greater,...

It's been a great year for interfaith misunderstanding in America.

There was a U.S. senator's wild allegation about Islamic extremists infiltrating the American government.

There are the ridiculous -- and ongoing -- claims about a conspiracy to "impose sharia law in America," starting in Kansas...

It's been a bad summer for corn, and a fertile summer for violence.

It sprouted unexpectedly in Colorado in a movie theatre. It just shot up in Wisconsin in a Sikh house of worship. Then there's the violence that hardly gets reported from the mean streets of the neighborhoods abandoned...

We all know the standard traditions of marriage in America: something borrowed, something blue... the groom doesn't see the bride before the wedding... processional and recessional... the kiss, the toast... the newlywed couple cutting the cake and smearing it on one another's faces, throwing rice on the departing couple. But...

For 24 years of my life, I was a church planter and pastor. At the beginning of those years, I would have gladly called myself an Evangelical. But those years coincided with the rise of the Religious Right, and at the end, Evangelical meant something very different than before.

I...

In various religious communities, certain foods are considered acceptable and others unacceptable. For observant Jews and Muslims, for example, pork is unclean. For Hindus, any meat is unacceptable. Christians like me often adopt a food abstention of some sort during Lent.

I have a proposal for a different way...

When I was a young Evangelical Christian coming of age back in the early 1970s, I remember feeling that there were two paths before me. One was legalistic, anti-intellectual, combative and rigid. The other was missional rather than legalistic, reflective rather than anti-intellectual, communicative rather than combative, and supple rather...

It was probably about thirty-five years ago, before I had children of my own. I was part of one of those retreats, popular back in the seventies, where people were organized in small groups and each session began with an "icebreaker," a question to get people opening up and sharing.

On the death of Osama bin Laden, theologian Miroslav Volf expresses my sentiments when he writes:

We are right to feel a sense of relief that a major source of evil has been removed. But we should reflect also on the flip side of that relief:...

I grew up Evangelical and although I certainly don't fit in with religious right stereotypes, my heritage is still important to me. But two recent news items have me wondering as never before: What's happening to my heritage?

First came news that Donald Trump was garnering Evangelical support. He was...

Because of my own experience as a writer, I've been anticipating the baptism in hot water (or worse) that Rob Bell was about to experience with the publication Love Wins. And because of the old saying that it's not the attacks of your critics but the silence of...

With all the angst about the economy, the deficit, and a looming government shut-down, I'm still concerned that we're treating symptoms rather than diagnosing the underlying disease.

I know something about this. I spent a week in the hospital last year having loads of tests done -- blood work, heart...

You'll be hearing in coming days, if you haven't already, about the What Would Jesus Cut? campaign, launched by Jim Wallis and the good people of Sojourners. It assumes that massive budget cuts are coming, but raises the question of where we start. If budget cuts are a...

It's risky to make historical comparisons. If we say, "This event is exactly the same as that event," our comparison blinds us to the uniqueness of a historical moment. But if we say, "This event is in some ways like that event," our comparison can help us see meaningful resonances...

According to a recent article, the Pope is calling Catholic leaders to radical self-examination in reference to the escalating abuse scandal:

We must ask ourselves what we can do to repair as much as possible the injustices that occurred ... We must ask ourselves what was wrong in...