Brian McLaren They chose to stay Christian when Christianity as a whole was a hot, violent, ugly mess. During the centuries that followed, the peaceful examples Hildegard, Francis, Clare, and other courageous, creative reformers seemed to be forgotten as the Spanish Inquisition arose and employed the horrific technologies…
Uncategorized Gen Z and Millennials Are Seeking Authentic Church Community, Not Leaving It https://churchleaders.com/pastors/435886-gen-z-and-millennials-are-seeking-authentic-church-community-not-leaving-it.html
Father James Martin For Father James Martin, ministry means going wherever the people are The popular Jesuit priest and author says he felt called to minister among the LGBTQ+ community following the Pulse nightclub shooting in 2016, when few Catholic leaders were speaking out.…
Idelette McVicker It wasn’t God who created race. People did. It wasn’t God who created race. People did. In 2000, scientists finally proved that race is a social construct, never a scientific or biological one. J. Craig Venter, the American…
Jonny Rashid James H. Cone I first encountered the idea that God sides with the oppressed after Black liberation theology in seminary - particularly the work of theologian and thinker James H. Cone. Cone was…
Uncategorized Students across country walk out, allege LGBTQ discrimination at religious schools 'You can just see there's this pattern and movement happening of students and employees at these Christian universities finally saying, ‘enough is enough,'' said Chloe Guillot, a graduate student at…
Uncategorized Heresy isn’t the enemy in TikTok pastor’s new book ‘I’m not interested in playing the orthodoxy game,’ Brandan Robertson told RNS. https://religionnews.com/2022/10/12/brandon-robertson-heresy-isnt-the-enemy-in-tiktok-pastors-new-book/
Uncategorized A $100 million ad campaign wants to fix Jesus’ image. His followers remain a problem. A major ad campaign for Jesus will expand in the months leading up to the Super Bowl. The "He Gets Us" campaign hopes to rescue the message of Jesus from…
Richard Rohr A “patho-adolescent culture” You need a very strong container to hold the contents and contradictions that arrive later in life. You ironically need a very strong ego structure to let go of your…
Stephen M. R. Covey How To Increase Your Integrity So how do we go about increasing our integrity? First, we need to consider what degree of integrity we currently have. At this point, you might find it helpful to…
Lisa Miller Two attentional networks Our brains have two attentional networks - dorsal and ventral - that interact in a dynamic way. The dorsal attention network is our top-down attention; it filters incoming sensory and…
Willie Dwayne Francois III A more insidious white noise distracts us into perpetual sleep Every time I laid my newborn son down for bed, a white-noise machine built into his bassinet soothed him to sleep. The sleep-aide device drowned out the noise of his…
Uncategorized Study: More than 3/4 of Republican evangelicals want US declared a Christian nation While some Christian groups would like the US government to make their faith the official religion of the US, a new poll shows most Americans know that would be unconstitutional.…
Eric Minton The Pain is a Mirror Rather than fixating on the way our adolescents dress and talk - not to mention their paradoxical willingness to use a phone for anything but its original purpose - in…
Brian McLaren The shrinking of the Christian religion And so, I suspect that the shrinking of the Christian religion will likely become a global phenomenon too, eventually, as long as these trends continue: more young people learn basic…
Richard Rohr The Hero Must Leave the Home The very first sign of a potential hero’s journey is that he or she must leave home, the familiar, which is something that may not always occur to someone in…
Brandan Robertson Our privilege is one of the primary blinders Our privilege is one of the primary blinders to our implicit bias. If we don’t have to think about how others’ biases might impact our well-being in our day-to-day lives,…
Uncategorized Radical Hospitality by Diana Butler Bass https://dianabutlerbass.substack.com/p/sunday-musings-497?r=43xc6&s=r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
Uncategorized After Elizabeth: The spiritual implications of imperial succession by Lisa Sharon Harper https://religionnews.com/2022/09/15/queen-elizabeth-king-charles-on-spiritual-implications-of-imperial-succession/
Idelette McVicker For a more whole, beautiful, and just humanity Imagine that we, as white people, are in the caterpillar stage of comfortable whiteness. In her powerful poem “The Point. The Center. The Norm,” Kimberly James highlights who white people…
Stephen M. R. Covey The 4 Cores of Credibility The “4 Cores of Credibility” are the foundational elements that make you believable, both to yourself and to others. You will recognize them as the same elements that would prove…
