Tom Dahlman

Looking back, I can only describe it as a kind of violent mercy — because what shattered was not really my faith in God. What shattered was an idol that had been wearing God’s face.

Jesus could not have been clearer. In Matthew 25, he describes the final judgment—the separation of the sheep from the goats, the saved from the damned. The criterion? "I was a stranger and you welcomed me... I was a stranger and you did not welcome me." How we respond to the stranger, Jesus says, is how he will measure our souls. As immigration debates continue to intensify nationally and locally, and as we are bombarded with the same scenes over and over, it is good for us to step back and...

On October 3, 2025, the Crown Nominations Commission appointed Sarah Mullally as the 106th Archbishop of Canterbury. She is the first woman to hold this ancient office in its 1,400-year history. This was a historic decision and will clearly be a turning point for global Anglicanism.