Category: Current Events

This weekend, the Vatican hosted a historic summit addressing the problem of sexual abuse within the Catholic church. The summit comes only a couple of weeks after a

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