Jana Riess On Joss Whedon, cancel culture, and the Bible I won’t be torching my Harry Potter books or throwing my Buffy DVDs on a bonfire. I’d have to throw my Bible to the flames as well. by Jana Riess…
Uncategorized Evangelical Leaders Condemn ‘Radicalized Christian Nationalism’ from NPR https://www.npr.org/2021/02/24/970685909/evangelical-leaders-condemn-radicalized-christian-nationalism
Diana Butler Bass Zacchaeus Zacchaeus thought that gratitude was a political structure of benefactors and beneficiaries that he could manipulate for his own benefit. Then Jesus called him down from that tree and invited…
Uncategorized Renegades: Born in the USA Renegades: Born in the USA is a series of conversations between President Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen about their lives, music, and enduring love of America—despite all its challenges.
Uncategorized Anti-racism: White United Methodists speak out By Crystal Caviness https://www.umc.org/en/content/anti-racism-white-united-methodists-speak-out
Religion News Service Want to understand Black experience? Learn about African American faith, survey finds from Religion News Service - A significant percentage of Black church attendees — 69% — agree that pastors of Black congregations are the African American community’s most important leaders. https://religionnews.com/2021/02/19/want-to-understand-black-experience-learn-about-african-american-faith-survey-finds/
Religion News Service The impeachment vote was a vote for white supremacy by Andre Henry - The refusal to confront the white supremacy at the Capitol is a refusal to reconcile America’s lofty democratic rhetoric with the state of its floundering institutions.…
Religion News Service ‘The Deconstructionists Playbook’ outlines ways forward for questioning Christians "Our Bible App" launched a Kickstarter campaign earlier this month to raise money to create a devotional book for not only deconstructing faith but also reconstructing and 'liberating' it. https://religionnews.com/2021/02/15/the-deconstructionists-playbook-outlines-ways-forward-for-questioning-christians/
Uncategorized Yolanda Pierce on grandmother theology, Black Jesus and Mariology 'I'm really trying to shift the discourse about who can do theology and what counts as theological source material,' says the first woman dean of Howard University’s divinity school and…
Robin DiAngelo We cling tightly to the ideology of individualism when asked to consider our own unearned advantage Individualism is a story line that creates, communicates, reproduces, and reinforces the concept that each of us is a unique individual and that our group memberships, such as race, class,…
Ausin Channing Brown Dear Nice White People What are you afraid of? by Austin Channing Brown https://austinchanning.substack.com/p/dear-nice-white-people?r=43xc6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=copy
Mark Feldmeir “Give me your tired, your poor” “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my…
Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons Private schools in the South opened by white parents to avoid desegregated public schools The Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 was heralded by progressive Christians and many other Americans as a huge advance for social justice, but it…
Ausin Channing Brown Joy as Resistance by Austin Channing Brown https://austinchanning.substack.com/p/joy-as-resistance?r=43xc6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=copy
Diana Butler Bass “Play unplugged my fear” It turns out that play and gratitude are linked. Mary Beth Sammons, coauthor of The Grateful Life, recalls how she struggled as her father and mother passed away—not quickly—but over…
Brian McLaren Questioning Paradigms and dogma can be defended and enforced with guns and prisons, bullets and bonfires, threats and humiliations, fatwas and excommunications. But paradigms and dogma remain profoundly vulnerable with anomalies…
Uncategorized 2021 Black History Month Recommendations for the Whole Family by Dominique Dubois Gilliard https://christiansforsocialaction.org/resource/2021-black-history-month-recommendations-for-the-whole-family/
Diana Butler Bass Three Views of Jeep’s Bruce Springsteen Commercial from Diana Butler Bass: https://dianabutlerbass.substack.com/p/a-better-middle?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=copy from Jeffrey Salkin: https://religionnews.com/2021/02/09/super-bowl-jeep/ from Amanda Tyler https://religionnews.com/2021/02/11/dear-jeep-christian-nationalism-cannot-unite-us/
Brandan Robertson “I really am learning that God doesn’t show partiality to one group over another. “ Another place that this forward movement takes place in Scripture is in the Book of Acts 10. For the sake of time, I’ll summarize the account. The Apostle Peter receives…
Shane Claiborne A former Confederate state just voted to abolish its death penalty. Here’s why that’s a big deal by Shane Claiborne https://religionnews.com/2021/02/05/a-former-confederate-state-just-abolished-its-death-penalty-heres-why-thats-a-big-deal/
Robin DiAngelo These ideologies make it very difficult We make sense of perceptions and experiences through our particular cultural lens. This lens is neither universal nor objective, and without it, a person could not function in any human…
