Having talked to many friends since the election, I am conscious of how lots of us are still trying to let what happened sink in. Places form indelible parts of our memories, and I was especially struck how "places" changed last week.

In April, 1968, the streets...

I am sending you some wonderful memos, letters, and reflections on what your election means, and what people's hopes and prayers are for you--from an amazing array of moral and religious leaders from America and around the world. Some of my favorite pieces of their advice include: looking after...

Most elections are just power rearrangements; this one was a transformational moment in our history. A fundamental shift is taking place in America, and we saw the evidence on November 4th. It is a political shift, a cultural and racial shift, a generational shift, and a religious shift.
The...

On the eve of this historic election let us pause for a moment of thanks. We should thank God for the men and women who committed themselves to establish a new nation, in which voting was possible. We should thank God for the courage of the women of the Suffrage...

Hey Shane, thanks for weighing in. I appreciate it. I am so thankful for you and everybody who is asking the question of how to be faithful to Jesus at a time like this--and even in response to an election. I agree with much of what you said yesterday...

In the final days of this election campaign, a new message has emerged. For the entire political year, the overriding theme has been change--with each candidate competing to be the real champion for a new direction. With 80 percent of Americans unhappy with our country's current direction, it seemed that...

James Dobson, you owe America an apology. The fictional letter released through your Focus on the Family Action organization, titled "Letter From 2012 in Obama's America", crosses all lines of decent public discourse. In a time of utter political incivility, it shows the kind of negative Christian leadership that...

From the results of the very first primary in 2008, the winner of this year's election was very clear: Change. When 4/5ths of the American people believe the country is headed in the wrong direction, what else could the popular sentiment be but a deep hunger for a new...

In 2004, several conservative Catholic Bishops and a few megachurch pastors like Rick Warren issued their list of "non-negotiables," which were intended to be a voter guide for their followers. All of them were relatively the same list of issues: abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, etc. None of them...

In Wednesday's presidential debate, the first steps were taken toward a new national conversation about abortion. For too many years, the old one hadn't changed very much. It came up every four years during elections and seldom in between. The Republicans repeated that they think abortion should just be...

"I think if McCain uses these very nasty character references he risks losing his soul. This is what he said he wouldn't do in this campaign," said author and Washington Post columnist David Ignatius Sunday morning on the Chris Matthews Show.

The language has indeed...

For too long abortion was seen as the only "life" issue in our culture and politics, but there is a growing conviction among Christians that poverty, disease, war, the health-care crisis, human trafficking, the death penalty, nuclear weapons, and the worldwide deaths of 30,000 children every day from preventable...

Church of the Resurrection takes its name seriously, and it should. You can't name yourself "Resurrection" and then do anything less than work for renewal and make the choice for hope. Eighteen years ago the church started out as 25 people worshiping in a funeral home. Adam Hamilton, then...

As the polls and media pundits have pointed out, many Americans are angry about this financial crisis, angry about a rescue plan that seems to bail out Wall Street more than them, and frustrated with the lack of clear solutions being offered by politicians. But underneath the anger, there...

We are all familiar with the crazy-looking street preacher in some public square haranguing every passer by with a message of doom and gloom while holding up a sign which reads, "Repent, the end is near!"

Well, as the Members of Congress go home to their districts in honor of...

The meltdown of the nation's financial systems has stunned the country; and the imminent dangers to the entire economy have placed many Americans in the deeply anxious position of both confusion and fear -- with many already suffering and many more feeling very vulnerable. Even many economic "experts" say even...

This week, with the news of the U.S. financial crisis dominating the headlines, the United Nations General Assembly opened its annual meeting. The threat to the entire global economy has created alarm and fear that those in poverty, both in the U.S. and around the world, will be...

Yesterday I heard Cokie Roberts on ABC's This Week say: "I'd like to see the CEOs of these companies marched down Wall Street in sackcloth and ashes." In all the words that were written and spoken this weekend, those were perhaps the most appropriate and even prophetic.

Everyone has heard the famous phrase, attributed to James Carville, which supposedly won the presidential election of 1992 for Bill Clinton, "It's the economy, stupid!" It's still good advice, especially as the shocking collapse of the financial markets has turned the election campaign into a much more serious...

After Sarah Palin was selected by John McCain as the Republican vice-presidential candidate, reporters asked me whether the pick was desperate, brilliant, or risky. I said, "yes." Only time will answer the question about the wisdom of McCain's choice. But soon after the announcement, the firestorm began. I said that...