Sophfronia Scott

The Heart and the Capitol Attack

by Sophfronia Scott https://sophfronia.com/the-heart-and-the-capitol-attack/

Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons

Advancing religious freedom abroad starts at home

by Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons and Maggie Siddiqi https://religionnews.com/2021/01/15/advancing-religious-freedom-abroad-starts-at-home/

Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons

It’s the gospel

It is the black social gospel that led directly to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement. “First, many people talk about the civil rights movement…

Religion News Service

What four strangers of different faiths learned while living together during a pandemic

from Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2021/01/12/what-four-strangers-of-different-faiths-learned-while-living-together-during-a-pandemic/

Religion News Service

If you’re religious and supported President Trump

by Jeffrey Salkin in Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2021/01/11/trump-capitol-religion/

brenda salter mcneil

The burden we have carried

As an African American woman, I’m acutely aware that many of us bear the weight of reconciliation in our bodies. This is not some social experiment for us. The call…

Robin DiAngelo

Making sure that others see us as having arrived

None of the white people whose actions I describe in this book would identify as racist. In fact, they would most likely identify as racially progressive and vehemently deny any…

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Only the Church Can Truly Defeat a Christian Insurrection

by David French https://frenchpress.thedispatch.com/p/only-the-church-can-truly-defeat

Brandan Robertson

America’s Last Stand

by Brandan Robertson https://www.patheos.com/blogs/faithfulprogress/2021/01/americas-last-stand/

Brian McLaren

The storming of the US Capitol by Christians was a sickening sight

by Brian McLaren https://www.premierchristianity.com/Blog/The-storming-of-the-US-Capitol-by-Christians-was-a-sickening-sight/ Tragically, too many American churches have become aggregators for Trumpist organizers, rendering sincere but gullible believers tools in Trump's delusional power-grab.

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The Domestic Violence and Assault of America by the GOP

by Susan K. Smith https://candidobservation.com/2021/01/04/the-domestic-abuse-and-assault-of-america-by-the-gop/

Religion News Service

Truth over power: It is past time for the church to speak plainly about the election

from Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2021/01/08/it-is-past-time-for-the-church-to-tell-the-truth-about-the-election/

Religion News Service

If the mob’s attack on the Capitol surprised you, you weren’t paying attention

from Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2021/01/07/if-the-mobs-attack-on-the-capitol-surprised-you-you-werent-paying-attention/

Religion News Service

Taking the white Christian nationalist symbols at the Capitol riot seriously

by Robert P. Jones https://religionnews.com/2021/01/07/taking-the-white-christian-nationalist-symbols-at-the-capitol-riot-seriously/

Diana Butler Bass

Gratitude is structure

When I started on a path to a more grateful life, I never imagined that the journey would lead to reconsidering ethics and politics, yet it seems somewhat inevitable now.…

Brian McLaren

Ortho-

Today’s guest quote is by Brian McLaren, from A New Kind of Christianity: Our faith is vain and self-centered if it only brings blessing for us or to us. It also…

Religion News Service

How to make a pilgrimage into 2021

We walk forward into unknown terrain, not certain of what we will encounter, but learning to trust that hospitable grace will sustain us. By Wes Granberg-Michaelson https://religionnews.com/2020/12/31/how-to-make-a-pilgrimage-into-2021/

Barbara Brown Taylor

There is a place where human knowing runs out

“We know,” Nicodemus says to Jesus when he first comes into the room. “You do not know,” Jesus says to Nicodemus right before he leaves. If you interpret this as…

New York Times

Heather Cox Richardson Offers a Break From the Media Maelstrom. It’s Working.

from the New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/27/business/media/heather-cox-richardson-substack-boston-college.html

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Millennials Are Leaving Religion And Not Coming Back

from FiveThirtyEight https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/millennials-are-leaving-religion-and-not-coming-back/

Amanda Henderson

An intractable problem

We know this, the call to love our neighbor as ourselves. We have heard it many times. But do we live it? Do we live it in our personal lives…