Diana Butler Bass The larger social consequences of gratitude Social scientists and psychologists argue that gratitude will make us happier, develop greater resiliency, and provide better outcomes of health and well-being. If gratitude is but an individualistic practice, however,…
Religion News Service How a Supreme Court bent on protecting religion could harm it from Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2020/12/01/how-a-supreme-court-bent-on-protecting-religion-could-harm-it/
Jana Riess I am appalled by America by Jana Riess; Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2020/12/04/i-am-appalled-by-america/
Robin DiAngelo The smallest amount of racial stress is intolerable White people in North America live in a society that is deeply separate and unequal by race, and white people are the beneficiaries of that separation and inequality. As a…
Religion News Service Eric Metaxas and the losing of the evangelical mind Christians can’t wait for the sociologists to sort out why our fellow congregants believe in ‘Q’ or that Trump won the election. We need a strategy to restore a few…
Brandan Robertson God is still speaking The idea that God stopped speaking at the close of the canon is a modern notion dreamed up by the Protestant Reformers some 500 years ago. But the Catholic and…
Religion News Service Churches return land to Indigenous groups as part of #LandBack movement from Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2020/11/26/churches-return-land-to-indigenous-groups-amid-repentance-for-role-in-taking-it-landback-movement/ The returns come as some mainline Protestant Christian denominations have learned about and repudiated the Doctrine of Discovery, the justification for European Christians to seize…
Religion News Service Progressive United Methodists announce new denomination: Liberation Methodist Connexion from Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2020/11/30/progressive-united-methodists-announce-new-denomination-liberation-methodist-connexion/
Uncategorized Churches Step In Where Politicians Will Not Why do we need acts of charity to rescue Americans from crushing medical bills? From the New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/27/opinion/covid-medical-debt-church-charity.html
Brian McLaren God Creates Good Today’s guest quote is by Brian McLaren, from ”A New Kind of Christianity” If Genesis sets the stage for the biblical narrative, this much is unmistakably clear: God's unfolding drama is…
William Barber William Barber on Truth and Reconciliation After Trump In an extended interview, the reverend explains why healing the soul of the nation will take more than returning to “normal.” https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/11/william-barber-biden-trump/617235/
Diana Butler Bass Gratitude resists unhealthy environments and empowers the possibility of change We might be grateful persons, with thankful hearts, and be fanatical about gratitude journals and intentions, but as soon as we walk out our front door or turn on the…
Madeleine L'Engle Obedience is an unpopular word nowadays Perhaps the reason I shuddered at the idea of writing something about “Christian art" is that to paint a picture or to write a story or to compose a song…
Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons Why the GOP is so rattled by Rev. Warnock’s faith-based Georgia Senate campaign by Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/23/opinions/reverend-warnock-religious-left-graves-fitzsimmons/index.html
Otis Moss III Otis Moss III: Care for the land is intimately tied to Black liberation https://faithandleadership.com/otis-moss-iii-care-land-intimately-tied-black-liberation
Sojourners Adam Taylor succeeds Jim Wallis as Sojourners president from Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2020/11/19/adam-taylor-succeeds-jim-wallis-as-sojourners-president/
Robin DiAngelo Manifestations of identity politics All progress we have made in the realm of civil rights has been accomplished through identity politics: women’s suffrage, the American with Disabilities Act, Title 9, federal recognition of same-sex…
brenda salter mcneil What are you going to do about it? To understand my evolution as a reconciliation leader, you must first understand that I began my journey sincerely believing that if I could convince evangelical Christians that reconciliation was not…
Rachel Held Evans Rachel Held Evans’ father on his daughter’s final days and the ongoing impact of her life ‘I was her dad, and was proud to be so. I didn’t try to put the brakes on Rachel. Controversial issues were hers to play out,’ Peter Held tells RNS…
Brandan Robertson Progressive revelation Along with this notion of an expanding Kingdom, Jesus also preached a message about progressive revelation, or that God would reveal Truth continually and gradually throughout the ages. When Jesus…
Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons Judging a society based on how the most vulnerable are treated In contrast to the conservative Christian focus on “saving souls” from eternal conscious torment in hell, progressives return to Matthew 25, where Jesus builds on the long history of Jewish…
