Kathleen Norris A Prayer to Eve Mother of fictions and of irony help us to laugh. Mother of science and the critical method, keep us humble. Muse of listeners, hope of interpreters inspire us to act.…
Jana Riess White evangelicals courted Trump’s toxic masculinity for decades by Jana Riess in Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2020/07/22/white-evangelicals-didnt-hold-their-noses-to-vote-for-trump-his-toxic-masculinity-is-what-theyve-been-defending-for-decades/ Jana speaks with Kristin Du Mez about her new book, “Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured…
Sojourners Rejecting symbols of hate is more than symbolic by Jim Wallis, through Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2020/07/20/rejecting-symbols-of-hate/
Frederick Buechner Listen for Him The question is not whether the things that happen to you are chance things or God's things because, of course, they are both at once. There is no chance thing…
Barbara Brown Taylor Love The Stranger However you define the problematic present-day stranger—the religious stranger, the cultural stranger, the transgendered stranger, the homeless stranger—scripture’s wildly impractical solution is to love the stranger as the self. You…
Uncategorized There’s No Excuse for Food Insecurity by Walter Brueggemann https://churchanew.org/blog/posts/walter-brueggemann-column-theres-no-excuse-for-food-insecurity
Uncategorized Something This Protestant Learned from a Jew About Reading the Bible: A Story by Pete Enns https://peteenns.com/something-this-protestant-learned-from-a-jew-about-reading-the-bible-a-story/
Religion News Service The Illusion of Religious Equality in America from Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2020/07/16/khyati-y-joshi-argues-religious-freedom-equality-in-america-is-an-optical-illusion/
Uncategorized The History That James Baldwin Wanted America To See by Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-history-that-james-baldwin-wanted-america-to-see
Brian McLaren Our Spiritual Health by Brian McLaren https://email.cac.org/t/ViewEmail/d/58E819A4B00C269B2540EF23F30FEDED/3BA949F5D09BEC9EF990754F028F0E8F
Brandan Robertson Nomad Book Launch Party Join Brandan Robertson for the launch of his new book "Nomad" - Tuesday, August 11, 2020 at 5 PM – 7 PM PDT https://www.facebook.com/events/590064641650073/
Jacqui Lewis “I Dream A World” a sermon by Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis https://www.middlechurch.org/events/worship-celebration-july-5-1145-am
Religion News Service Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Calls Celebrities’ Anti-Semitism ‘So Disheartening’ “If we’re going to be outraged by injustice, let’s be outraged by injustice against anyone,” the six-time NBA champion wrote. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kareem-abdul-jabbar-antisemitism_n_5f0f36aac5b643a58ebc2ff0?guccounter=1
Uncategorized Christians Don’t Understand How Horrible Christendom Was (as Is) by Stephen Mattson on Red Letter Christians https://www.redletterchristians.org/christians-dont-understand-how-horrible-christendom-was-as-is/
Religion News Service Trump unmasked his racist campaign strategy — and Christians have choices to make by Jim Wallis, through Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2020/07/13/trump-unmasked-his-racist-campaign-strategy-and-christians-have-choices-to-make/
Uncategorized Why Black Christians are bracing for a ‘whitelash’ https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/10/us/white-black-christians-racism-burke/index.html
Otis Moss III A Letter To My Son by Otis Moss III https://www.huffpost.com/entry/post_12566_b_10974782
Diana Butler Bass How do you experience gratitude when feelings are elusive? How do you experience gratitude when feelings are elusive? Emotions are random things. Love, sadness, joy, fear. Very few are predictable, and most move like winds through our lives. They…
Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons Christians should not be in favor of discrimination by Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons In Christ’s family there can be no division into Jew and non-Jew, slave and free, male and female. Among us you are all equal. That is, we…