Religion News Service A prayer for a more just, inclusive future for LGBTQ folks in 2021 from Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2020/12/28/a-prayer-for-a-more-just-inclusive-future-for-lgbtq-folks-in-2021/
Barbara Brown Taylor Entrusting yourself to God As variously as people describe it, they all discover that if you are determined to walk the way of Jesus, there comes a time when you must leave the lower…
Mark Feldmeir Three suggestions So, what can we do? Where do we go from here? Can I offer three suggestions? First, if you’re white, listen to people, especially to people of color, who are…
Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons FDR As president, FDR “rallied a solid majority of American citizens to a vision of justice and democracy that came right out of Scripture - and his heritage of liberal Protestantism.”…
Brian McLaren Set the Story Today’s guest quote is by Brian McLaren, from A New Kind of Christianity: As I allowed Genesis, Exodus, and Isaiah—rather than Plato, Aristotle, and Caesar—to set the stage for the biblical…
The Guardian Senior faith leaders call for global decriminalisation of LGBT+ people More than 370 sign declaration demanding ban on conversion practices before UK conference - from The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/16/senior-faith-leaders-call-for-global-decriminalisation-of-lgbt-people
Religion News Service Peacemaking is the essential work of our time Some peacemakers get Nobel Prizes, but most are ordinary people who do extraordinary, countercultural things. From Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2020/12/15/peacemaking-is-the-essential-work-of-our-time/
Robin DiAngelo Racism as a system into which I was socialized Personal reflections on my own racism, a more critical view of media and other aspects of culture, and exposure to the perspective of many brilliant and patient mentors of color…
Uncategorized The Inward and Outward Journey of Faith With Rev. Wes Granberg-Michaelson Rev. Jim Wallis speaks with Rev. Wes Granberg-Michaelson about his latest book, Without Oars: Casting Off Into a Life of Pilgrimage. Granberg-Michaelson shares ways people of faith can embrace the journey through…
Uncategorized The Pilgrimage of Faith By Wes Granberg-Michaelson https://blog.reformedjournal.com/2020/11/17/the-pilgrimage-of-faith/
Brandan Robertson You have heard it said Now, the next question that naturally arises is this: If truth is progressive, then is it possible for something that was once considered to be true to become no longer…
Otis Moss III Raphael Warnock is the man to bring the gospel back into public life by Otis Moss III https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/12/10/raphael-warnock-black-church-theology/
Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons “The better we know Jesus, the more social do his thoughts and aims become” Today, we mostly think of social justice as a secular movement sometimes associated with progressive causes that are fighting the “Christian right” and other conservative groups. But many of the…
Uncategorized The Long Road to White Christians’ Trumpism By Elizabeth Jemison https://religionandpolitics.org/2020/12/08/the-long-road-to-white-christians-trumpism/
Uncategorized Is John Lennon’s invitation to unity possible? by Sharon Koenig http://sharonmkoenig.com/blog/2020/12/08/is-john-lennons-invitation-to-unity-possible/
Mark Feldmeir Something more systemic? If we want to understand racism in the U.S., as uncomfortable as it might be for us, we have the moral responsibility to open our eyes and see our society…
Diana Butler Bass The larger social consequences of gratitude Social scientists and psychologists argue that gratitude will make us happier, develop greater resiliency, and provide better outcomes of health and well-being. If gratitude is but an individualistic practice, however,…
Religion News Service How a Supreme Court bent on protecting religion could harm it from Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2020/12/01/how-a-supreme-court-bent-on-protecting-religion-could-harm-it/
Jana Riess I am appalled by America by Jana Riess; Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2020/12/04/i-am-appalled-by-america/
Robin DiAngelo The smallest amount of racial stress is intolerable White people in North America live in a society that is deeply separate and unequal by race, and white people are the beneficiaries of that separation and inequality. As a…
Religion News Service Eric Metaxas and the losing of the evangelical mind Christians can’t wait for the sociologists to sort out why our fellow congregants believe in ‘Q’ or that Trump won the election. We need a strategy to restore a few…
