Uncategorized Why Pastors Are Joining the Great Resignation https://sojo.net/articles/why-pastors-are-joining-great-resignation
Ibram X. Kendi We must first take account of race As President Lyndon B. Johnson said in 1965, “You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the…
Brian McLaren All these observations piled up like a stack of firewood Before becoming a pastor, I thought more time in Bible study, more time in prayer, more time exposed to hymns and worship songs, more time in Christian fellowship meant my…
Brian McLaren, Uncategorized Faithful Creation Care Check out this Q&A from the 2021 Wild Goose Festival:
Uncategorized Entitlement Another frequently heard concern regards entitlements, and whether reparations might contribute to a culture of entitlement among African Americans. We will limit ourselves to two responses. First, this concern fundamentally…
Robert P. Jones It’s the most ‘angry’ time of the year? By Robert P. Jones – A new survey highlights just how angry vaccinated and unvaccinated Americans are with each other today. https://religionnews.com/2021/12/11/its-the-most-angry-time-of-the-year/
Heather McGhee Demographic change So what is the stubborn belief that needs to shift now for us to make progress against inequality? I found my first clues in a series of psychology studies. Psychologists…
Uncategorized Is Anyone Taking Care of the Wounded Healers? By Jennie McLaurin Humanitarian workers are crucial to our collective survival... but they are not okay. https://www.christianitytoday.com/better-samaritan/2021/october/is-anyone-taking-care-of-wounded-healers.html
Uncategorized After COP26: What should Christians do next? Climate change is not simply a technical, policy or engineering issue. It is above all a moral and spiritual issue in which the meaning and value of all life is…
John Pavlovitz Theology is unmasked in crisis It’s tempting to get ahead of ourselves when adversity visits. If we’re being honest, on our very best days a terrifying sense of scarcity is always hovering in the periphery…
Frederick Buechner Churches die, but God does not die The gospel story can be read as the story of a man to whom, in his fragility, almost every bad thing happens that can happen, a man not unlike the…
Uncategorized How your church can be brave by Elizabeth Hagan https://faithandleadership.com/how-your-church-can-be-brave
Daniel Bowman Jr. Neurotypical Syndrome Just for fun: here’s a parody, pointing out the absurdities of centering one group’s perceived strengths while pathologizing the typical traits of another. Written by Erik Engdahl, the piece incidentally…
Heather McGhee Today our schools are nearly as segregated as they were before Brown v. Board of Education In my gut, I’ve always known that laws are merely expressions of a society’s dominant beliefs. It’s the beliefs that must shift in order for outcomes to change. When policies…
Uncategorized Five tech innovations used as weapons against people of faith from Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2021/11/12/five-tech-innovations-used-as-weapons-against-people-of-faith/
John Pavlovitz Looking for a bigger God Whenever people say, “I’m spiritual but not religious” this is usually another way of saying, “I’ve outgrown my God box and am currently looking for a bigger one.” They’re telling…
Barbara Brown Taylor Once you have given up knowing who is right, it is easy to see neighbors everywhere you look. Lately I have begun to notice how my holy envy of friends in other traditions moves around the circle back to me. An observant Jewish friend tells me that he…
Uncategorized US Muslims gave more to charity than other Americans in 2020 Muslim Americans gave more to charity in 2020 than non-Muslims, a new study found. They are also more likely to volunteer, we learned. https://theconversation.com/us-muslims-gave-more-to-charity-than-other-americans-in-2020-170689
Brian McLaren What makes religious doubt so challenging What makes religious doubt so challenging is that in almost every religious community, the box of normative beliefs contains beliefs of each kind - personal, historical, aesthetic, scientific, moral, and…
Susan K. Smith The “thingification” of Black people The Puritans relied upon the Calvinist theology to which they adhered, as well as the Bible, to justify their belief that God had created some human beings inferior to them.…
John Pavlovitz I’m Not Saying Conservative Christianity is Anti-Jesus. Jesus is. by John Pavlovitz https://johnpavlovitz.com/2021/11/05/im-not-saying-conservative-christianity-is-anti-jesus-jesus-is/
