Religion News Service Becoming Less Racist: Lighting the Path to Anti-Racism This show is hosted on Religion News Service’s Facebook page every Wednesday and Friday afternoon. "In each episode, we will bring in an expert to speak about a particular aspect…
Patricia Raybon Making His Music by Patricia Raybon; in Our Daily Bread Ministries https://odb.org/2020/09/10/making-his-music
Barbara Brown Taylor Could it be that our favorite verses are the ones that make us feel most right? In the Christian New Testament, Jesus himself admits that he does not know everything there is to know about God. When his disciples ask him to tell them about the…
Mark Feldmeir How can we talk about race without the defensiveness, reflexivity, and scapegoating that accompanies such conversations? Baltimore, Ferguson, Charlottesville, Charleston. Trevon, Tamir, Sandra, Philando, and Freddie. Kaepernick, Serena, Barkley, and Lebron. White supremacy, white privilege, white fragility, and woke. “Hands up, don’t shoot.” “I can’t breathe.”…
Uncategorized Five Things Faith Leaders Can Do to Show Moral Leadership Now https://brianmclaren.net/five-things-faith-leaders-can-do-to-show-moral-leadership-now/ by Brian McLaren
Religion News Service Voter guides show the power and duplicity of American evangelicalism by Angela Denker in Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2020/09/03/voter-guides-show-the-power-and-duplicity-of-american-evangelicalism/
Lori Erickson The Holy Dirt of Chimayo, New Mexico The Holy Dirt of Chimayo, New Mexico by Lori Erickson
Diana Butler Bass It’s Easy to Have Gratitude When… | A Conversation Between Diana Butler Bass and Anne Lamott
Frederick Buechner A Crazy, Holy Grace A crazy, holy grace I have called it. Crazy because whoever could have predicted it? Who can ever foresee the crazy how and when and where of a grace that…
John Pavlovitz I Hate Police Brutality, Not the Police by John Pavlovitz https://johnpavlovitz.com/2020/08/29/i-hate-police-brutality-not-the-police/
Joan Chittister The Gift of Years: Growing Older Gradually by Joan Chittister https://www.joanchittister.org/word-from-joan/very-sweet-part-growing-older
Alexia Salvatierra We Go There: Abortion by Lisa Sharon Harper, from Red Letter Christians https://www.redletterchristians.org/we-go-there-abortion/
Simone Campbell Praying for a New Creation to Come from Chaos by Sister Simone Campbell https://networklobby.org/082120prayer/
Religion News Service Trump or Biden? What’s a Catholic voter to do? from Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2020/08/27/trump-or-biden-whats-a-catholic-voter-to-do/
Religion News Service More than 350 faith leaders to back Biden for president, including many first-time endorsers from Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2020/08/27/many-first-time-endorsers-included-in-list-of-more-than-350-faith-leaders-backing-biden-for-president/
Diana Butler Bass Gratitude involves not only what we feel, but also what we do. It cannot be overstated that gratitude is an emotion, a complex set of feelings involving appreciation, humility, wonder, and interdependence. Gratitude is, however, more than just an emotion. It is…
Brian McLaren Inspiration Today’s guest quote is by Brian McLaren, from A New Kind of Christianity: So we judge internal tension and debate as flaws or failures in the components of a constitution, but…
Uncategorized Becoming Brave: Finding the Courage to Pursue Racial Justice Now A new book by Brenda Salter McNeil Becoming Brave offers a distinctly Christian framework for addressing systemic injustice. It challenges Christians to be everyday activists who become brave enough to break…