Truth or respect? Imagination or connection? My theology does not ask me to choose one over the other. There is need for both truth-telling and respectful rules of engagement. There is need for moral imagination grounded in personalized human connection.

I realized that there was an important lesson to be learned from this child. While I was looking at what was lacking, he was looking at what was enough; I was listening to a need, but he was claiming what he had!

Childhood poverty is an epidemic that is consuming our nation, yet we seem content to exist in a state of denial about its virulent and destructive nature.

As people of faith, we should have already been addressing this as a matter of practice. The provocative story from 2 Samuel 11 about King David is but one instance of a biblical #MeToo claim. Why? Because it unmasks corruption and the way power was abused by one of the preeminent figures of Scripture.