Brian McLaren Good Fruit Today’s guest quote is by Brian McLaren, from A New Kind of Christianity: We pray that God will create something new and beautiful in and among us for the good of…
Barbara Brown Taylor You do not know Preachers learn early on that we preach the sermons we most need to hear, and that was true of the one I had just preached as well. The story of…
Religion News Service What Andrew Young taught me about keeping King’s movement going By Maina Mwaura via Religion News Service “Martin would say that if you’re not willing to stand up and lead, go do something else,” Young said. Leadership in the fight…
Amanda Henderson The truth had been relatively easy for me to avoid Five years ago, I found myself working in a place I hadn’t fully expected to be in - at the intersection of faith and politics in one of the more…
Brandan Robertson Digital Deception: How We Ended Up Here And What We Can Do To Save Ourselves by Brandan Robertson https://www.patheos.com/blogs/faithfulprogress/2021/01/digital-deception-how-we-ended-up-here-and-what-we-can-do-to-save-ourselves/
Sophfronia Scott The Heart and the Capitol Attack by Sophfronia Scott https://sophfronia.com/the-heart-and-the-capitol-attack/
Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons Advancing religious freedom abroad starts at home by Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons and Maggie Siddiqi https://religionnews.com/2021/01/15/advancing-religious-freedom-abroad-starts-at-home/
Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons It’s the gospel It is the black social gospel that led directly to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement. “First, many people talk about the civil rights movement…
Religion News Service What four strangers of different faiths learned while living together during a pandemic from Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2021/01/12/what-four-strangers-of-different-faiths-learned-while-living-together-during-a-pandemic/
Religion News Service If you’re religious and supported President Trump by Jeffrey Salkin in Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2021/01/11/trump-capitol-religion/
brenda salter mcneil The burden we have carried As an African American woman, I’m acutely aware that many of us bear the weight of reconciliation in our bodies. This is not some social experiment for us. The call…
Robin DiAngelo Making sure that others see us as having arrived None of the white people whose actions I describe in this book would identify as racist. In fact, they would most likely identify as racially progressive and vehemently deny any…
Uncategorized Only the Church Can Truly Defeat a Christian Insurrection by David French https://frenchpress.thedispatch.com/p/only-the-church-can-truly-defeat
Brandan Robertson America’s Last Stand by Brandan Robertson https://www.patheos.com/blogs/faithfulprogress/2021/01/americas-last-stand/
Brian McLaren The storming of the US Capitol by Christians was a sickening sight by Brian McLaren https://www.premierchristianity.com/Blog/The-storming-of-the-US-Capitol-by-Christians-was-a-sickening-sight/ Tragically, too many American churches have become aggregators for Trumpist organizers, rendering sincere but gullible believers tools in Trump's delusional power-grab.
Uncategorized The Domestic Violence and Assault of America by the GOP by Susan K. Smith https://candidobservation.com/2021/01/04/the-domestic-abuse-and-assault-of-america-by-the-gop/
Religion News Service Truth over power: It is past time for the church to speak plainly about the election from Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2021/01/08/it-is-past-time-for-the-church-to-tell-the-truth-about-the-election/
Religion News Service If the mob’s attack on the Capitol surprised you, you weren’t paying attention from Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2021/01/07/if-the-mobs-attack-on-the-capitol-surprised-you-you-werent-paying-attention/
Religion News Service Taking the white Christian nationalist symbols at the Capitol riot seriously by Robert P. Jones https://religionnews.com/2021/01/07/taking-the-white-christian-nationalist-symbols-at-the-capitol-riot-seriously/
Diana Butler Bass Gratitude is structure When I started on a path to a more grateful life, I never imagined that the journey would lead to reconsidering ethics and politics, yet it seems somewhat inevitable now.…
Brian McLaren Ortho- Today’s guest quote is by Brian McLaren, from A New Kind of Christianity: Our faith is vain and self-centered if it only brings blessing for us or to us. It also…