Maya Angelou Maya Angelou at a 2011 Juneteenth festival https://www.journalnow.com/news/local/angelou-kicks-off-juneteenth-festival/article_3b8b831d-7f2f-5404-bdb0-d39e8350a64a.html
Religion News Service Evangelicals perfected cancel culture. Now it’s coming for them. by Jonathan Merritt in Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2020/06/17/evangelicals-perfected-cancel-culture-now-its-coming-for-them/
Patricia Raybon Sweeter Than Honey by Patricia Raybon, on Our Daily Bread https://ourdailybread.ca/sweeter-than-honey/
Kathleen Norris Taking the life out of them In a similar way, the children who un-selfconsciously make up songs and poems when they’re young-I once observed a three-year-old singing a passionate ode to the colorful vegetables in a…
Uncategorized “I Love You This Much” Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons in "The Resistance Prays" https://mailchi.mp/d3652ff6d3df/the-good-news-of-lgbtq-dignity-1401882
Diana Butler Bass Places of renewal, hospitality, and spiritual vision “Ancient biblical tradition suggests that waters—wells, spring, oases—are also places of renewal, hospitality, and spiritual vision, where human beings see God and receive God’s blessing.” (Grounded, p. 73) SCRIPTURE: With…
Parker Palmer “I Am Not Your Negro” an article by Parker Palmer about the 2016 film https://www.facebook.com/86750497077/posts/10157355942047078/?d=n
Marcus Borg Sometimes the Bible Is Wrong Because the awareness that the Bible is sometimes wrong has been so important in my own Christian journey and because I am convinced that this realization is important for all…
Philip Yancey After the Protests and Riots, What? by Philip Yancey https://philipyancey.com/after-the-protests-and-riots-what
The Guardian ‘Long overdue’: lawmakers declare racism a public health emergency https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/jun/12/racism-public-health-black-brown-coronavirus?utm_term=RWRpdG9yaWFsX1VTTW9ybmluZ0JyaWVmaW5nLTIwMDYxMg%3D%3D&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=USMorningBriefing&CMP=usbriefing_email
Parker Palmer Hope from Parker Palmer https://www.facebook.com/86750497077/posts/10157346540172078/?d=n
Marcus Borg An experiential grounding in God Jesus stands in the tradition of Jewish figures for whom God, the sacred, was an experiential reality. The data in the gospels supporting this claim are early and widespread, particular…
Sojourners Prayer is essential. Protest is required. Policy is necessary. by Jim Wallis, in Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2020/06/05/prayer-is-essential-protest-is-required-policy-is-necessary/
Frederick Buechner Life Itself is Grace - from “Listening to Your Life” by Frederick Buechner - HarperOne Listen to your life. All moments are key moments. I discovered that if you really keep your eye peeled…
Religion News Service Remembering the Christianity of Jesus, not empire by Amy Butler; from Religion News Service "The last week has stripped bare the fact that the message and teachings of Jesus have been co-opted by empire: hijacked and skewed…
Uncategorized Will We Actually Get To Vote in November? We have now crossed the threshold where we must think about the unthinkable: what happens if the November election is subverted. For the past three and a half years, we’ve…
Diana Butler Bass As a Christian and a human being, I was appalled by Trump’s church photo op by Diana Butler Bass https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/03/opinions/trump-st-johns-visit-isnt-religion-butler-bass/
Uncategorized The Fight Against Racism Starts Within Our Families by Beth K. Vogt https://bethvogt.com/life-2/the-fight-against-racism-starts-within-our-families/
Ausin Channing Brown Black activists to learn from from the Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2020/06/02/black-activists-to-learn-from-on-blackout-tuesday/
Barbara Brown Taylor The most troubling question of all was why my religion seemed so much less gracious That first field trip opened a whole new folder of questions for me, both as a person and as a teacher of young persons. Is it better to read about…
Uncategorized Jesus’ Cross and the Public Lynching of Black Bodies by Natasha Sistrunk Robinson https://asistasjourney.com/2020/06/01/jesus-cross-and-the-public-lynching-of-black-bodies/
