Uncategorized The Vatican has betrayed the faithful in China https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/10/10/china-and-christianity-vatican-deal-china-allows-persecution-column/5899207002/?fbclid=IwAR38bh136o1fJUNuIxFBhN7tb0NAP9CfbtdRb6IV-z_oYKRJtaTxSi184q4
Religion News Service Indigenous Peoples Day comes amid a reckoning over colonialism and calls for return of Native land from Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2020/10/12/indigenous-peoples-day-comes-amid-a-reckoning-over-colonialism-and-calls-for-return-of-native-land/
Religion News Service Amy Coney Barrett nomination fight leaves progressive Catholics feeling unseen from Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2020/10/12/with-nomination-of-amy-coney-barrett-progressive-catholics-feel-unseen-and-misrepresented/
The Guardian Fifth of countries at risk of ecosystem collapse, analysis finds from The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/oct/12/fifth-of-nations-at-risk-of-ecosystem-collapse-analysis-finds
Madeleine L'Engle Christian art? Christian art? Art is art; painting is painting; music is music; a story is a story. If it’s bad art, it’s bad religion, no matter how pious the subject. If…
Diana Butler Bass Gratitude It cannot be overstated that gratitude is an emotion, a complex set of feelings involving appreciation, humility, wonder, and interdependence. Gratitude is, however, more than just an emotion. It is…
Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons Just Faith: Reclaiming Progressive Christianity This book focuses on the type of progressive Christian political engagement championed by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and many others in the public square and outside the walls…
Barbara Brown Taylor No one owns God God alone knows what is good. For reasons that will never be entirely clear, God has a soft spot for religious strangers, both as agents of divine blessing and recipients…
Brian McLaren Interpretation Today’s guest quote is by Brian McLaren, from A New Kind of Christianity: As I look back on my own experience with the Bible, I figure I've heard or given over…