Frederick Buechner If God Speaks If God speaks anywhere, it is into our personal lives that he speaks. Someone we love dies, say. Some unforeseen act of kindness or cruelty touches the heart or makes…
Uncategorized “Dismantling Racism: Pressing on to Freedom” United Methodist Church leaders will launch a plan of action to galvanize church members and others to actively stand against racism in the wake of the death of George Floyd…
Uncategorized Self-Deception in the #PublishingPaidMe Marketplace by Sophfronia Scott https://www.ruminatemagazine.com/blogs/ruminate-blog/self-deception-in-the-publishingpaidme-marketplace
Father James Martin The Holy Spirit is moving us to act against racism by Father James Martin https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2020/06/01/george-floyd-fr-james-martin-holy-spirit-racism
Barbara Brown Taylor “Without Buddha I Could Not Be a Christian” - from “Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others” by Barbara Brown Taylor - HarperOne One of my favorite authors, Paul Knitter, has written a book called “Without…
Jacqui Lewis Jacqui Lewis fills the virtual house to talk about anti-racism from Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2020/06/22/jacqui-lewis-fills-the-virtual-house-to-talk-about-anti-racism/
Marilyn McEntyre Accept . . . what you cannot change . . . the terms of time . . . the body’s demands . . . the open spaces left by loss .…
Uncategorized This is a moment of reckoning on race for white Christians a CNN interview https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/19/us/white-christians-racism-robert-jones/index.html
Maya Angelou Maya Angelou at a 2011 Juneteenth festival https://www.journalnow.com/news/local/angelou-kicks-off-juneteenth-festival/article_3b8b831d-7f2f-5404-bdb0-d39e8350a64a.html
Religion News Service Evangelicals perfected cancel culture. Now it’s coming for them. by Jonathan Merritt in Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2020/06/17/evangelicals-perfected-cancel-culture-now-its-coming-for-them/
Patricia Raybon Sweeter Than Honey by Patricia Raybon, on Our Daily Bread https://ourdailybread.ca/sweeter-than-honey/
Kathleen Norris Taking the life out of them In a similar way, the children who un-selfconsciously make up songs and poems when they’re young-I once observed a three-year-old singing a passionate ode to the colorful vegetables in a…
Uncategorized “I Love You This Much” Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons in "The Resistance Prays" https://mailchi.mp/d3652ff6d3df/the-good-news-of-lgbtq-dignity-1401882
Diana Butler Bass Places of renewal, hospitality, and spiritual vision “Ancient biblical tradition suggests that waters—wells, spring, oases—are also places of renewal, hospitality, and spiritual vision, where human beings see God and receive God’s blessing.” (Grounded, p. 73) SCRIPTURE: With…
Parker Palmer “I Am Not Your Negro” an article by Parker Palmer about the 2016 film https://www.facebook.com/86750497077/posts/10157355942047078/?d=n
Marcus Borg Sometimes the Bible Is Wrong Because the awareness that the Bible is sometimes wrong has been so important in my own Christian journey and because I am convinced that this realization is important for all…
Philip Yancey After the Protests and Riots, What? by Philip Yancey https://philipyancey.com/after-the-protests-and-riots-what
The Guardian ‘Long overdue’: lawmakers declare racism a public health emergency https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/jun/12/racism-public-health-black-brown-coronavirus?utm_term=RWRpdG9yaWFsX1VTTW9ybmluZ0JyaWVmaW5nLTIwMDYxMg%3D%3D&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=USMorningBriefing&CMP=usbriefing_email
Parker Palmer Hope from Parker Palmer https://www.facebook.com/86750497077/posts/10157346540172078/?d=n
Marcus Borg An experiential grounding in God Jesus stands in the tradition of Jewish figures for whom God, the sacred, was an experiential reality. The data in the gospels supporting this claim are early and widespread, particular…
Sojourners Prayer is essential. Protest is required. Policy is necessary. by Jim Wallis, in Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2020/06/05/prayer-is-essential-protest-is-required-policy-is-necessary/