Sojourners Voter suppression is a theological issue by Jim Wallis https://religionnews.com/2020/05/15/voter-suppression-is-a-theological-issue/
Marcus Borg “God is wholly other.” Initially seminary only deepened my doubt. There I learned two things about God that exacerbated the problem. On the one hand, much of what I heard reinforced my notion that…
Uncategorized Black People Are Tired from Red Letter Christians “Black People Are Tired” was anonymously authored and circulated through social media in the wake of Ahmaud Arbery’s death. Yet black souls like Breonna Taylor keep…
New York Times What Does Opportunity Look Like Where You Live? from the New York Times An excellent article with great graphics. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/05/13/opinion/inequality-cities-life-expectancy.html
New York Times In a First, Renewable Energy Is Poised to Eclipse Coal in U.S. from the New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/13/climate/coronavirus-coal-electricity-renewables.html The United States is on track to produce more electricity this year from renewable power than from coal for the first time on record,…
Richard Rohr There Is No Anger in God from Father Richard Rohr https://cac.org/there-is-no-anger-in-god-2020-05-14/
William Barber Rev. Barber’s Poor People’s Campaign calls for resistance to reopening plans It is urging Congress, the president and state governors to follow the recommendations of public health experts and not risk a resurgence of the virus, which is disproportionately affecting poor,…
Shane Claiborne Gun control group starts faith-driven push ahead of election from Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2020/05/12/gun-control-group-starts-faith-driven-push-ahead-of-election/
Kathleen Norris Eve Alone, in the Garden of Eden It’s easy to feel like a whore in here. Fisherman, potato farmers go in and out and the plumbing whistles all night. The venetian blind falls down, the kitchen drain…
Religion News Service Christian leaders seek $4B for secure voting during pandemic from Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2020/05/11/christian-leaders-seek-4b-for-secure-voting-during-pandemic/
Jennifer Ohman_Rodriguez The Utter Simplicity of Saving Lives By Jennifer Ohman-Rodriguez Grains, millions of grains of sand rubbing the souls of my feet. Making them wiggle while sending tingling sensations up my heels into ankles, calves. Grit mixing…
Sojourners From Vietnam to the coronavirus pandemic, lies still kill by Jim Wallis https://religionnews.com/2020/05/08/from-vietnam-to-the-coronavirus-pandemic-lies-still-kill/
Diana Butler Bass The language of mysticism and spiritual experience The language of mysticism and spiritual experience cuts a wide swath through the world’s religious traditions, and it presents an alternative theology, that of connection and intimacy. In Christian tradition,…
Frank A. Thomas Did Heaven Make A Mistake? by Rev. Dr. Frank A. Thomas This sermon speaks to the pain, frustration, and disappointment of living in a world where human beings kill, maim, slaughter, and rape each other.…
Simone Campbell Responding to the Need Laid Bare by Sister Simone Campbell https://networklobby.org/20200505envisioning/
Diana Butler Bass Diana Butler Bass And the Spiritual Practice Of Deconstruction And Reconstruction from the What If Project podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-94-diana-butler-bass-spiritual-practice-deconstruction/id1397047558?i=1000472014740
Brandan Robertson On The Absurdity of Life by Brandan Robertson https://www.patheos.com/blogs/revangelical/2020/05/08/absurdityoflife.html
Religion News Service Crowded into camps, refugees are sitting ducks for COVID-19 https://religionnews.com/2020/05/05/refugees-at-high-risk-of-covid-19/
Kaitlin Curtice Potawatomi Christian author Kaitlin Curtice on finding herself and God in new book Curtice wasn’t expecting to release her book amid a pandemic, but she believes the book can speak into this moment in history. https://religionnews.com/2020/05/05/potawatomi-christian-author-kaitlin-curtice-on-finding-herself-and-finding-god-in-new-book-native/
Frederick Buechner Dreams No matter how prosaic, practical, and ploddingly unimaginative we may be, we have dreams like everybody else. All of us do. In them even the most down-to-earth and pedestrian of…
Sojourners Unequal suffering: Here’s how Congress should help by Jim Wallis While each of us has borne a variety of new burdens and dangers during this pandemic, those burdens are by no means distributed equally. On the one…
