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New Here? Start With These
Five articles that show how this site works: a straight answer up front, and the sources to back it up.
- Wealth & Poverty Jesus was blunt: you cannot serve both God and money. Hoarding wealth while neighbors go hungry isn't a gray...
- LGBTQ+ Inclusion Jesus never condemned LGBTQ+ people — not once, in any Gospel. Every person is made in the image of God. That...
- Immigration & Refugees The Torah commands love of the stranger 36 times — more than any other commandment. Jesus was himself a...
- Would Jesus Be a Republican or a Democrat? Both parties have tried to claim him. Both are wrong. Jesus was executed by the state for threatening the...
- "Common Sense" and the Gospel That Had None "Common sense" has become one of the most weaponized phrases in American political life — invoked to dismiss...
Money Is the Main Character
Jesus talked about money more than almost anything else. Start with what he said, then follow it into the modern economy.
- Wealth & Poverty Jesus was blunt: you cannot serve both God and money. Hoarding wealth while neighbors go hungry isn't a gray...
- The Billionaire Class Jesus had more to say about extreme wealth than about almost any other subject. He said it plainly,...
- The Prosperity Gospel The idea that God rewards faith with wealth is not Christianity. It is the direct inversion of everything...
- Consumer Culture & Corporate Waste Jesus told a parable about a man who tore down his full barns to build bigger ones, congratulated himself on...
- Homelessness & Housing "Foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head." Jesus was unhoused for...
- Universal Healthcare Jesus healed everyone who came to him. No means test. No co-pay. No proof of citizenship. Access to healing...
Faith Meets Science
Evolution, creationism, AI, and the cosmos — and why faith never actually needed to fight science.
- Evolution, Science & Faith The Catholic Church has formally accepted evolution since 1950. The Jewish tradition has no official conflict...
- Creationism, the Ark Encounter & the Young Earth Young Earth Creationism — the belief that the universe is roughly 6,000 years old and that Genesis is a...
- Artificial Intelligence & Scientific Progress Every generation has faced a technology that seemed to threaten the sacred. The printing press, the telescope,...
- Space Travel & Our Place in the Cosmos Awe at the scale of the universe is a deeply Jewish and Christian instinct. So is the prophetic question: who...
- Do Animals Have Souls? Does God Care? Jesus said not a single sparrow falls to the ground apart from the Father. Translators often supply the word...
The Questions That Keep You Up at Night
Suffering, Hell, free will, forgiveness — what the tradition actually says, including where it admits it doesn't know.
- Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good People? If God is all-knowing, all-powerful, and all-loving — why is there cancer? Why are children born into poverty?...
- Hell, Damnation & the Afterlife Jesus never used the word 'Hell' as we understand it. The medieval torture chamber of eternal fire was...
- Free Choice, the Snake & Original Sin What if the snake in the Garden wasn't a villain? A close reading of Genesis reveals something far more...
- Forgiveness & Accountability Jesus preaches radical forgiveness. Jewish law says forgiveness without repentance lets the offender off the...
- Loneliness & Community Look at how Jesus worked his miracles: someone asks, someone carries, someone rolls away a stone, fills the...
For the Burned and the Skeptical
If your problem is what gets done in Jesus's name — the jets, the branding, the politics — start here. He had the same problem.
- Mega Churches & Televangelists Jesus preached his most famous sermon on a hillside. He told his followers to give in secret, pray in their...
- The Prosperity Gospel The idea that God rewards faith with wealth is not Christianity. It is the direct inversion of everything...
- The Branded Bible & Political Religion A self-described businessman and political figure sells a $60 Bible bundled with the Constitution and the...
- Religious Nationalism The crowd tried to make Jesus king by force. He walked away. Using his name to seize political power is the...
- Who Gets Communion — and Who Gets Turned Away The Catholic Church has denied communion to divorced Catholics, politicians who support abortion rights, and...
Made in the Image
Every person is made in the image of God. These articles take that claim seriously — for everyone.
- LGBTQ+ Inclusion Jesus never condemned LGBTQ+ people — not once, in any Gospel. Every person is made in the image of God. That...
- Gender, Biological Sex & Trans People Before we can ask what Jesus would say about gender identity, we need to be honest about something biology has...
- Women's Rights & Gender Equality Jesus traveled with women disciples, debated theology with women in public, and chose women as the first...
- Racial Justice Jesus made a despised ethnic outsider the hero of his most famous parable — and made the religious...
- Mental Health & Addiction Jesus healed people others had written off as broken, sinful, or unclean. Mental illness and addiction are not...
- Immigration & Refugees The Torah commands love of the stranger 36 times — more than any other commandment. Jesus was himself a...