Brian McLaren Fundamentalism Today’s guest quote is by Brian McLaren, from A New Kind of Christianity: Fundamentalism—whether in its Catholic, Protestant, Anglican, Pentecostal, or Orthodox form (for it exists in all streams of Christian…
Diana Butler Bass Water “[Jesus] gives water, and he is water.” (Grounded, p. 76) SCRIPTURE: If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, “Give me a…
Religion News Service Exit polls show few changes in the religious vote from Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2020/11/05/exit-polls-show-few-changes-in-the-religious-vote/
Religion News Service Who will President Joe Biden listen to on faith matters? It is very encouraging to see several of our Compassionate Christianity collaborators on this list! https://religionnews.com/2020/11/08/joe-bidens-faith-advisors/
Madeleine L'Engle All art is cosmos, cosmos found within chaos Leonard Bernstein tells me more than the dictionary when he says that for him music is cosmos in chaos. That has the ring of truth in my ears and sparks…
Parker Palmer Five Habits to Heal the Heart of Democracy by Parker Palmer https://www.globalonenessproject.org/library/articles/five-habits-heal-heart-democracy
John Pavlovitz President Trump, Haven’t You Put America Through Enough? by John Pavlovitz https://johnpavlovitz.com/2020/11/07/president-trump-havent-you-put-america-through-enough/
Joan Chittister Prayer for Leadership by Joan Chittister https://www.joanchittister.org/word-from-joan/let-us-pray
William Barber We Ring Our Bells for You, America by William J. Barber and Liz Theoharis https://www.redletterchristians.org/we-ring-our-bells-for-you-america/
Otis Moss III Voter suppression kept my grandfather from voting. It won’t stop me. by Otis Moss III https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/11/02/voter-suppression-kept-my-grandfather-voting-it-wont-stop-me/
Brian McLaren The Rhetoric That Frees Us by Brian McLaren https://brianmclaren.net/what-i-shared-on-election-eve/
Father James Martin Jesuit tools to help you survive the election (and its aftermath) by Father James Martin https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2020/11/02/jesuit-spirituality-election-2020-james-martin
Robin DiAngelo Identity Politics The United States was founded on the principle that all people are created equal. Yet the nation began with the attempted genocide of Indigenous people and the theft of their…
brenda salter mcneil The time is now Now more than ever, those who care about the reconciliation command of the cross must speak up and out about injustice and must go about the work of dismantling the…
Brian McLaren The Rise of the Authoritarian Voter by Brian McLaren https://brianmclaren.net/the-rise-of-the-authoritarian-voter/
Frederick Buechner Humanly Best After Buechner's father's death, the family moved to Bermuda, rather to Grandma Buechner's disapproval: "You should stay and face reality," she wrote, and in terms of what was humanly best,…
Brandan Robertson Jesus taught that the Kingdom of God, the renewal of the world, would happen progressively over time The question of “What is the Gospel” isn’t a hard one to answer. Jesus explicitly states it many times throughout the Gospel accounts of the New Testament. In Mark…
Uncategorized What Will They Say Tomorrow? by Susan K. Smith https://candidobservation.com/2020/10/28/what-will-they-say-tomorrow/
Religion News Service Three church coalitions in the Deep South partner to urge racial reconciliation — and justice Leaders of multiracial coalitions of churches in three Southern cities have confessed to being too “comfortable” and committed anew to “work for justice to right past wrongs” and seek racial…
Madeleine L'Engle Inseparable All right. So it’s an impossible task. But thinking about it may open new questions , new insights. And as I listen to the silence, I learn that my feelings…
