Matthew Tennant Listening Listening enables us to understand the other person. When we stop what we are doing and focus our attention on the other person, we can learn something. To learn something…
Leigh Finke What About Biology? You’ve probably heard all of the arguments: There are two biological genders, two sexes for the purpose of reproduction. You’re either XX or XY - there aren’t any other options.…
Kerry Connelly Implied hierarchy Let’s take the binary of white/nonwhite - you know, as a totally random example. Whether you’re ready to admit it yet or not, there’s a hierarchy built in there. Everything…
Brandan Robertson Lesbians in the Bible? Say WAHT?! a discussion with Rev. Brandan Robertson https://anchor.fm/tldrbible/episodes/Ruth-evu4dc
Justin Hancock My journey of waiting on the Lord by Rev. Justin Hancock https://neighboringmovement.org/blog/2021/5/3/my-journey-of-waiting-on-the-lord
Wil Gafney The Mark of Cain: Marked for Death, Marked for Life by Rev. Wil Gafney https://www.wilgafney.com/2021/04/25/markofcain/
Religion News Service Evangelicals are losing their climate skepticism No wonder the pushback on President Joe Biden’s climate agenda has thus far been minimal. https://religionnews.com/2021/04/28/evangelicals-are-losing-their-climate-skepticism/
Maya Angelou To Tell the Truth My mother, Vivian Baxter, warned me often not to believe that people really want the truth when they ask, “How are you?” She said that question was asked around…
Uncategorized We need to examine three things If we’re not intentional, we can all be in danger of becoming palace people. It’s easy to isolate and insulate ourselves. We do it without even trying. We listen to…
Robin DiAngelo We are products of our culture, not separate from it I recently gave a talk to a group of about two hundred employees. There were no more than five people of color in their organization, and of these five, only…
Parker Palmer We must hold divisions and contradictions with compassion I discovered a book that helped me understand how heartbreak and depression - two of the most isolating and disabling experiences I know - can expand one’s sense of connectedness…
Lenny Duncan You just have to believe that this is the way things are. White supremacy doesn’t need active racists to function. It is a demonic system with a life of its own. It is radical evil. It functions with interdependent systems like militarism…
Uncategorized Jesus and the Eunuch Eunuchs, as theologian Austen Hartke describes, were “the gender-diverse people of the ancient world” who “lived outside the boundaries of sex and gender.” Basically, queer people. Many people today don’t…
Religion News Service Study: Multiracial Methodist churches draw and keep more people than their white counterparts from Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2021/04/16/study-multiracial-methodist-churches-draw-and-keep-more-people-than-their-white-counterparts/
Uncategorized Paradox Paradox is that strange place where two things are true at the same time. Often, the two things seem diametrically opposed. This idea that two things can be true at…
Uncategorized This secessionist religion not only survived but also thrived After decades of regional tensions at the Triennial Conventions, where Baptists gathered to coordinate their church and missions work in the early eighteen hundreds, Baptists in the South brought the…
Uncategorized CDC Director Declares Racism A ‘Serious Public Health Threat’ from NPR https://www.npr.org/2021/04/08/985524494/cdc-director-declares-racism-a-serious-public-health-threat
Parker Palmer We must find ways to bridge our differences If we want to “create a politics worthy of the human spirit,” we must find ways to bridge our differences, whether they are defined by age, gender, class, race, ethnicity,…
Uncategorized A system that most of the public never bothered to examine We worship in a prison nation, where 90 percent of federal prisoners haven’t even seen a trial. The poor are offered deals in holding cells with forty other prisoners by…
Uncategorized Can the Meritocracy Find God? from the New York Times Opinion section The secularization of America probably won’t reverse unless the intelligentsia gets religion. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/10/opinion/sunday/religion-meritocracy-god.html
Uncategorized Faith is positive Faith is positive. It hopes for something. It looks to the future and imagines something better. In a perfect world, everyone wins. The gospel has a universal message: “God so…
