Category: Current Events

I have a bit of a confession to make: I, Kristen, a United Methodist pastor, dyed-in-the-wool Christian, millennial, am a racist. There. I said it. What a weird

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

One of the more challenging classes I took in seminary was oddly enough not the big, wooly bear known as “systematic theology” (the study of theology within a

In the first two posts of this series we discussed the allegations of sexual harassment and abuse, public response, apologies made by accusers, victim shaming, social and vocational

Last week, I introduced my literature students to the poem, “The Second Coming,” William Butler Yeats’s vision of modern apocalypse in a world where “things fall apart” as “anarchy

A few years back, John Mayer had a hit song called “Waiting for the World to Change.” It’s a catchy song with great guitar work, but it always

The backside of the Confederate monument at the North Carolina capital building in Raleigh, NC. I have spent much of the past month preparing to move from Raleigh,

I had planned to write something nice about the start of a new school year today. And I suppose I still could have. I have the privilege to

In recent days there has been a lot of discussion in the news about the recent vote to repeal internet privacy. While it is perhaps shocking that this

As time passes, it’s easy to forget what you once were like, what was most important in your life, what ideas you held most dear. That’s my story