Category: History

When I was in the eleventh grade, the KKK held a parade, and I watched as it went by. This was 1987, and the town was Texarkana. There

Second-Degree Plant-Slaughter I am a terrible gardener. My two requirements of office plants is that they 1) be able to withstand neglect for long stretches of time, and

If you thought the “Worship Wars” were bad, they pale in comparison to the century’s-long theological back-and-forth over which is more spiritual:  unshaven or clean-shaven, beard or no

The fallout from a lopsided gospel A recent Barna poll showed that 47% of Millennial evangelicals believe it is wrong to share one’s faith with the intent of

In many Christian denominations, women struggle to find a voice. Some of them feel called to teach or preach and so are relegated to teaching only women or

This past week I had the privilege of watching two documentaries by film-maker Deeyah Khan. One film was titled: Jihad: A Story of the Others and the other

In our stories, Dr. King is good, Malcolm X is bad. Dr. King was a Christian. Malcolm X was a Muslim.Dr. King promoted nonviolence. Malcolm X promoted violence.Dr.

One of the most compelling images I have seen floating around the internet recently has been the one above. Christian friends, we need to talk. The building on

The civil rights movement of the 50s and 60s didn’t arise out of nothing. It wasn’t merely a reaction to the realities of segregation and racism in those

Sometimes when everyone is talking about the same news story, we at TTC feel at a loss — not about what to say so much as about how