I came to Congress five years ago believing I could make a difference for my constituents, for South Carolina and for a country I love deeply. I was the first woman to graduate from the…

Friend in ministry Barbara Lundblad tells of a vacation Bible school experience she had as a child at which the theme was “putting on the whole armor of God.”  That summer a creative leader came…

One night a few years ago, I watched a young man die over the course of 12 long hours because he refused a relatively common and safe medical intervention. I remember he was in his…

With Thanksgiving in the rear-view mirror and our country’s 250th birthday just around the corner, I’ve been thinking about their significance for us here and beyond. The saying “shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves” is credited to Andrew…

Leaders can unite or divide, whether it be by design or by misstep.     Thanksgiving’s evolution shows how both can happen.   On October 3, 1863, amid profound division and upheaval of the Civil…

This past week, Canada officially lost its measles elimination status, which it held for nearly 30 years — a shameful consequence of falling childhood vaccination rates. In normal times, Canada’s misfortune might serve as yet…

Oklahoma politicians are in court trying to defend a new law they passed to gut their citizens’ rights to put initiatives on the ballot, which allows the people to take action on matters where the…

Dayanne Figueroa was on her way to work in Chicago last month when she drove onto a street where an immigration enforcement action was in progress.  As she attempted to drive around the chaos, an…

“First they came for the Jews.” Many Americans remember that line as the beginning of a confession, offered in 1946 by Martin Niemoller and taught to schoolchildren ever since. First they came for the Jews,…

When Dorothy Tobe and Mike Rosseau bought a long-vacant church building in St. John to convert into their home, they moved in to opposition from the owner of a business nearby. They needed a lawyer,…