Tom Ehrich
Tom Ehrich is a writer, church consultant and Episcopal priest based in New York. He is the author of “Just Wondering, Jesus” and founder of the Church Wellness Project. His website is www.morningwalkmedia.com.
All Stories by Tom Ehrich
COMMENTARY: On the Fourth, setting aside the ‘I’ for ‘us’
By Tom Ehrich — July 1, 2014
(RNS) In July 1776, 56 brave men signed a Declaration of Independence and pledged everything -- their "lives, fortunes and sacred honor" -- to freedom and democracy. They set aside “I” and paid dearly for it.
COMMENTARY: Failing to see God’s love
By Tom Ehrich — June 24, 2014
(RNS) Churches die for many reasons, from bad leadership decisions to bad luck to poor execution of programs and ideas. One reason they die is ingratitude.
COMMENTARY: More Christian influence? Be careful what you wish for
By Tom Ehrich — June 17, 2014
(RNS) On any issue, the teachings and actions of Jesus are more radical, more revolutionary and more disruptive than anything imagined by the right wing, or the left wing for that matter.
COMMENTARY: What power madness has done to women — and men
By Tom Ehrich — June 10, 2014
(RNS) In the aftermath of the Santa Barbara shooting and the disturbing misogynistic testimonial left by the shooter, many women are demanding an end to "white male entitlement" and to physical abuse.
COMMENTARY: Power elites are waging war on the foundations of democracy
By Tom Ehrich — June 3, 2014
(RNS) This pervasive agenda isn't just about winning elections. It is about ushering in a new era of division and repression, in which American citizens fundamentally distrust and loathe each other and thus are easily manipulated.
COMMENTARY: Rolling a joint, a metaphor for a nation losing its way
By Tom Ehrich — May 27, 2014
(RNS) The legal calculation is that he won't get caught. The moral calculation is that not a single one of the people around him matters at all.
COMMENTARY: How Brown v. Board of Education still shapes our religious life
By Tom Ehrich — May 20, 2014
(RNS) How can a 60-year-old Supreme Court decision still be shaping religious life in America? It's because race still divides us.
COMMENTARY: Free market compensation or a rigged system?
By Tom Ehrich — May 13, 2014
(RNS) In a free market, compensation would be tied to results, not to accumulated wealth. Instead, we see no linkage to results; it's just insiders taking what they can. It's a polite form of thuggery.
COMMENTARY: For innovation to have a prayer, it needs to start with brokenness
By Tom Ehrich — May 6, 2014
SAN ANSELMO, Calif. (RNS) Innovation only makes sense when we recognize the broken, see the failure and our part in it.
COMMENTARY: If the Internet isn’t killing religion, what is?
By Tom Ehrich — April 22, 2014
(RNS) Religion in the U.S. went into decline 30 years before the Internet became commercially available.
COMMENTARY: Lessons for our democracy from the not-so-distant past
By Tom Ehrich — April 15, 2014
(RNS) We seem a long way from the conditions that spawned Hitler and Nazism. But even the sturdiest democracy can lose its footing.
COMMENTARY: Deliberate distortion of reality won’t work for long
By Tom Ehrich — April 8, 2014
(RNS) We can trust people's common sense to ignore conspiracy theories, obviously biased coverage and hysterical headlines.
COMMENTARY: Sex and the never-ending Christian adolescence
By Tom Ehrich — April 1, 2014
(RNS) I don't know any adult who would willingly repeat adolescence, yet here we are treating our faith as an endless adolescence centered around sex.
COMMENTARY: Phelps touched on fears and anger many feel
By Tom Ehrich — March 25, 2014
(RNS) In his anti-gay message, Phelps touched on fears and angers that many people feel.
COMMENTARY: Spring is victory lane
By Tom Ehrich — March 18, 2014
(RNS) It would have been easy to join the chorus of helpless whining. And maybe I did join it from time to time. If so, I hope the impulse to complain will vanish with the crocus and the daffodil.
