Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons Why I’m going to church for Easter by Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/03/opinions/easter-jesus-gallup-poll-church-decline-graves-fitzsimmons/index.html
Maya Angelou, Uncategorized Home From “Letter to My Daughter” by Maya Angelou I was born in St. Louis, Missouri, but from the age of three I grew up in Stamps, Arkansas, with my…
Shane Claiborne Jesus wept over Jerusalem. Is he weeping over our gun problem? by Shane Claiborne https://religionnews.com/2021/03/30/jesus-wept-over-jerusalem-is-he-weeping-over-our-gun-problem/
Shane Claiborne How Much Hate Does It Take to Make a Hate Crime? by Angela Denker https://www.redletterchristians.org/how-much-hate-does-it-take-to-make-a-hate-crime/
Shane Claiborne Easter Encouragement for the Spiritually Homeless by Rachel Ophoff https://www.redletterchristians.org/easter-encouragement-for-the-spiritually-homeless/
Sojourners We Have A Chance To Redeem Voting Rights https://sojo.net/articles/we-have-chance-redeem-voting-rights
Brian McLaren Spirit Today’s guest quote is by Brian D. McLaren, from Why Did Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and Mohammed Cross the Road?: “Pentecostalism in its first dynamic century has helped us see (among…
Diana Butler Bass For the first time in two months, I felt grateful. Jesus blessed history’s losers. No wonder people all those years ago had listened. No wonder they remembered and wrote it down. No wonder it is still so powerful two millennia…
Parker Palmer History has always been made by individuals doing their small parts Think about everyday experiences outside of politics - in your family, neighborhood, workplace, or the voluntary associations to which you belong. In settings of that sort, when was the last…
Uncategorized Drop by J. Dana Trent in The Christian Century https://jdanatrent.com/2021/03/drop-christian-century-essay-content-winner/
Religion News Service Study: Americans overwhelmingly support LGBTQ nondiscrimination laws The 2020 American Values Atlas study from PRRI finds that at least 60% of every U.S. religious group favors laws that would protect LGBTQ people from discrimination. But religious leaders…
Lenny Duncan We must dismantle, destroy, and bury white supremacy. Dear Church: “O dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. Thus says the Lord God to these bones” (Ezekiel 7:4-5): We must dismantle, destroy, and bury white supremacy. In…
Matthew Tennant Trying to get along Faith means Democrats and Republicans can get along. What about people from different ideological worldviews? Can they come together? Again, faith’s answer is, “Yes!” Coming together does not mean surrendering…
Uncategorized Renewal of Mind AND Body by Sabrina T. Cherry My church is doing a series using Romans 12:1-2 as one of the foundational passages. The series is focused on remembrance and has blossomed into a…
Leigh Finke How Many Genders Are There? If you grew up in any era prior to, you know, right now, you were probably taught that there is a simple answer to this question. And that answer is…
John Pavlovitz The Former President is Making Present Monsters by John Pavlovitz https://johnpavlovitz.com/2021/03/17/the-former-president-is-making-present-monsters/
Uncategorized Cancer and COVID and Lessons in Denial By Jeff Munroe https://reformedjournal.com/cancer-and-covid-and-lessons-in-denial/
Kerry Connelly Racist Because I know the R-word freaks everybody out, let’s go about defining it too, because I mean something very specific when I use it. Racism refers to a system…
