Uncategorized New Old-Time Religion By Diana Butler Bass Shall the fundamentalists win this time? https://dianabutlerbass.substack.com/p/new-old-time-religion?s=r
Uncategorized Interfaith leaders gather in Ukraine to appeal for peace Former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams said faith leaders should name human rights abuses, call for a cease-fire and offer solidarity to those ‘at the receiving end of the violence.’…
Uncategorized A necessary part of their transformation I can remember talking with a Missouri pastor in the wake of the 2016 election about reticence in his church and among its leadership to publicly step into the fray…
Uncategorized On Being Righteous and Holy By Susan K. Williams Smith Out of my formal theological education, there were three definitions given that I cherish to this day. I grew up on a street that was…
Uncategorized Christian Leaders Denounce ReAwaken America Tour The group Faithful America held a press call on Thursday that served as a platform for Christian leaders to speak out against the ongoing ReAwaken America megachurch tour. The tour,…
Uncategorized Asking questions Ruby Sales, who Jonathan Daniels saved from Thomas Coleman’s shotgun blast, has continued to work for racial and economic justice. Sales says it’s important for our times to ask people,…
Uncategorized Why Progressives & Moderates Need Each Other by Brandan Robertson https://www.patheos.com/blogs/revangelical/2020/03/06/why-progressives-moderates-need-each-other.html
Uncategorized Being With Like most modern parents, Amy and I left the hospital with our son wanting to know “What do we do?” But our years of parenting and my work as a…
Uncategorized The Difficulty of Holding Onto Hope by Susan K. Williams SmithWhen African American soldiers served in World War I, they were treated by the French like human beings – not as property – for the first…
Uncategorized We have been deeply shaped by the stories We have been deeply shaped by the stories we’ve told ourselves about God. We have also been shaped by the stories we’ve told ourselves about ourselves. The victor wrote our…
Uncategorized The To & Fro by Kaitlin Curtice https://kaitlincurtice.substack.com/p/the-to-and-fro?r=1ewbq&s=r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
Brian McLaren “Question one moral absolute and you’ll soon be questioning everything.” For Sam, it started in the young adult Bible study group at his church. All the other group members believed that because a certain political candidate wanted to criminalize abortion,…
Susan K. Smith It’s a matter of power Karen Armstrong writes in The Case for God that in spite of the fact that all of the world’s faiths insist that “true spirituality must be expressed consistently in practical…
Uncategorized 4 Steps Toward Compassionate Change By Martha Beck https://www.compassionatelistening.org/so/2aNtelRQl#/main
Catherine Meeks God does not coerce us Perhaps the greatest challenge for effecting social change has less to do with the power of racist systems than it is about our refusal to significantly alter the priorities of…
Uncategorized 7 Things White Christians Can Do to Address White Supremacy at Church by Robert P. Jones https://www.redletterchristians.org/7-things-white-christians-can-do/
Uncategorized Racism as Institutional Injustice In March 2012 an African American defense attorney named Bryan Stevenson gave a TED Talk called “We Need to Talk about an Injustice.” While not yet the household name he…
Daniel Bowman Jr. I didn’t know why it was so hard for me when it was so easy for others. I survived my childhood. I got through elementary school even though I did no homework, never studied for quizzes or tests, and almost never spoke with a teacher. These things…
Uncategorized A Letter to Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church via Wes Granberg-Michaelson https://www.facebook.com/1627309526/posts/10224139836836803/?d=n
Heather McGhee The old zero-sum paradigm is not just counterproductive; it’s a lie. The logical extension of the zero-sum story is that a future without racism is something white people should fear, because there will be nothing good for them in it. They…
Uncategorized Why white evangelical Christians are Putin’s biggest American fan base by Anthea Butler https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/russia-ukraine-crisis-complicates-american-white-evangelicals-love-putin-n1290442
