As a Black person who sometimes ministers in predominantly white parishes, I can appreciate how easy it is to feel out of place. It makes all the difference to hear words of welcome.

The church remembers Christ’s death on a cross in a spiritual and sacramental way during Holy Week, but some people actually experience the Passion in a tangible and personal way in their very lives.

The root cause of the chronic U.S. trade imbalance is macroeconomic: We save too little relative to our major trading partners. Tariffs will not address that problem.

To stop the important work of refugee resettlement is to lose part of the church’s identity in the United States.

Roosevelt understood, as few American presidents had before him, that there was no inherent separation between Christian charity and democratic citizenship.

Cory Booker and the Hands Off protesters prove that words still have power. But only if we accompany them with action.