David Gushee: Christians, Conflict and Change
Christians are ‘called to resist’ Trump
By David P. Gushee — May 1, 2016
(RNS) Why faithfulness to Jesus Christ is at stake in how Christians respond to Donald Trump.
Where have all the grown-ups gone?
By David P. Gushee — April 26, 2016
About the scary decline of all major American institutions.
The legalism spiral in religion
By David P. Gushee — April 21, 2016
To fixate on the letter of the law is to miss out on grace. But rejecting all limits isn't the answer.
Ted Cruz, Bernie Sanders and the pure ideologue
By David P. Gushee — April 18, 2016
When will this hardline fever break so our politics can deal with the world’s real complexities?
When conscientious differences threaten our relationships
By David P. Gushee — April 11, 2016
Both convictions and relationships are precious. Which gives way when they utterly conflict with each other?
When religion makes people worse
By David P. Gushee — April 5, 2016
About toxic religion that hurts people and drives them away from faith.
Reactionary Christianity wins in North Carolina, loses in Georgia
By David P. Gushee — March 31, 2016
Why anti-LGBT laws motivated by faith are bad for everyone, including Christians who support them.
Taming our hungers, for God
By David P. Gushee — March 27, 2016
What I learned from giving up alcohol and dessert for Lent.
Why was Jesus killed?
By David P. Gushee — March 23, 2016
What do you see when you look at the Cross?
The problem of the half-churched Christian
By David P. Gushee — March 17, 2016
On the negative effects of the wafer-thin church commitment that characterizes many self-identified Christians.
Will God save us from Donald Trump?
By David P. Gushee — March 14, 2016
Given Donald Trump's problems and the danger he poses, how long will it be until he implodes? Do we need a miracle?
Donald Trump and the preachers he resembles
By David P. Gushee — March 9, 2016
How the worldly Donald Trump dazzles many Christians by resembling their favorite preachers.
When the governor called in Jesus to defend gay people from Christians
By David P. Gushee — March 7, 2016
Georgia's Republican governor Nathan Deal rejects anti-gay "religious liberty" excesses.
America unveiled, or, when you don’t feel at home in your own country
By David P. Gushee — March 1, 2016
What to do when you feel like a stranger to many millions of your neighbors, whom you find incomprehensible.
How Reinhold Niebuhr speaks to 2016 American politics
By David P. Gushee — February 24, 2016
What would Reinhold Niebuhr say about our politics right now?
