Jeff Burns Growing Up White In The Segregated South: Forbidden Friendship by Dr. Jeff Burns https://www.patheos.com/blogs/jeffburns/2021/06/growing-up-white-in-the-segregated-south-forbidden-friendship/
Brian McLaren By the second half of life, they’ll be long gone Back in 2011, Richard Rohr wrote a book called Falling Upward. Richard, a warmhearted Franciscan brother, Catholic priest, insightful teacher, and bestselling author, is founder of the Center for Action…
Uncategorized ‘It must be you.’ A nonprofit helps Latino Catholic young adults grow in faith and build community https://faithandleadership.com/it-must-be-you-nonprofit-helps-latino-catholic-young-adults-grow-faith-and-build-community
Susan K. Smith Diametrically Opposed Belief Systems If it was puzzling to me how, in spite of the presence of God and the Bible there could be such racism, I was comforted to learn that I was…
Religion News Service The Fulton Supreme Court decision could increase discrimination against religious minorities While most of the analysis of this case has centered on the possible impact on LGBTQ Americans, we should also be aware of how a potential ruling could affect religious…
Telos Evangelical Christians must rethink their reflexive support for Israel By Greg Khalil from Telos. Four reasons evangelicals are reluctant to support equality for Palestinians and Israelis publicly. https://religionnews.com/2021/05/27/evangelical-christians-must-rethink-their-reflexive-support-for-israel/
Religion News Service Public Religion Research Institute: White evangelicals, Hispanic Protestants, Mormons most likely to believe in QAnon The groups are also the most likely to consume far-right media, which researchers noted is 'by far the strongest independent predictor of QAnon beliefs.' https://religionnews.com/2021/05/27/survey-white-evangelicals-hispanic-protestants-and-mormons-most-likely-believe-in-qanon/
Uncategorized What We Believe About History by Kristin Kobes Du Mez https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/27/special-series/kristin-kobes-du-mez-what-we-believe-about-history.html
Robert P. Jones Underneath the glossy, self-congratulatory histories This book puts forward a simple proposition: it is time - indeed, well beyond time - for white Christians in the United States to reckon with the racism of our…
Parker Palmer The invisible dynamics of the human heart and the visible venues of our lives The democratic experiment is endless, unless we blow up the lab, and the explosives to do the job are found within us. But so also is the heart’s alchemy that…
Religion News Service Poor People’s Campaign, lawmakers unveil sweeping resolution to tackle poverty https://religionnews.com/2021/05/20/poor-peoples-campaign-lawmakers-unveil-sweeping-resolution-to-tackle-poverty/
Lenny Duncan The roots of black Lutheranism in America Jehu would eventually be sent to Philadelphia to be a missionary to the black community there. He founded St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Center City Philadelphia. He bought the land…
Uncategorized Reconciling our Differences by Modeling the Incarnation from The Reformed Journal https://reformedjournal.com/reconciling-our-differences-by-modeling-the-incarnation/
Leigh Finke A choice? Some people remain convinced that being queer is a choice, an anomaly, a problem to be solved. But nothing could be further from the truth. Some people argue that queerness…
Uncategorized A short history of the long conservative assault on Black voting power https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/08/politics/black-voter-suppression/index.html
Kerry Connelly America is good Americans are good. In his July 2019 newsletter to his followers, evangelical leader James Dobson described a visit to the southern border of the United States during what can only…
Uncategorized 3 Confessions Of A Recovering Ex-Evangelical Pastor by Dr. Jeff Burns https://www.patheos.com/blogs/jeffburns/2021/05/3-confessions-of-a-recovering-ex-evangelical-pastor/
brenda salter mcneil If we refuse to face the truth There is an insidious and growing evil at work among us that continues to commodify and dehumanize human beings according to a racial hierarchy. This is rooted in a philosophical…
Patricia Raybon Letting God Lift Up Your Head by Patricia Raybon https://www.patriciaraybon.com/letting-god-lift-up-your-head/
Robert P. Jones The link between political leaders and prominent white churches was not just incidental It would not be until I was well into a PhD program at Emory University in my thirties that I was confronted with the brutal violence that white Christians deployed…
Parker Palmer Through the eye of the heart Looking at politics through the eye of the heart can liberate us from seeing it as a chess game of moves and countermoves or a shell game for seizing power…
