Weekend Reads

After Christchurch shooting, Jewish communities share in trauma and healing

A Giant Lake Has Appeared In The Middle Of Death Valley

The New Deal Wasn’t What You Think

President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s genius was that he knew he had to get capitalism moving again. But the man who actually figured out how to do that was, ironically, inherited from the Hoover administration: Jesse Jones.

The Methodist mess in St. Louis

In the four decades I’ve been an ordained leader in the UMC, we have lost 30 percent of our membership. Our response? Spend millions of dollars and hours of work to decide who else we can exclude. From what I know of Jesus, I predict he will not deal graciously with the infidelity of this church born in John Wesley’s exuberant, extroverted, "Salvation for all!"

Americans Won’t Buy the 'Green New Deal,' But Republicans Need Alternatives

Earth's Magnetic North Pole May Have Just Officially Shifted

The Terrorism That Doesn’t Spark a Panic

The Media Botched the Covington Catholic Story

Emergency declared near Portland for measles outbreak in anti-vaccine hotspot

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Donald Trump, and Stupidity