Uncategorized This secessionist religion not only survived but also thrived After decades of regional tensions at the Triennial Conventions, where Baptists gathered to coordinate their church and missions work in the early eighteen hundreds, Baptists in the South brought the…
Uncategorized CDC Director Declares Racism A ‘Serious Public Health Threat’ from NPR https://www.npr.org/2021/04/08/985524494/cdc-director-declares-racism-a-serious-public-health-threat
Uncategorized A system that most of the public never bothered to examine We worship in a prison nation, where 90 percent of federal prisoners haven’t even seen a trial. The poor are offered deals in holding cells with forty other prisoners by…
Uncategorized Can the Meritocracy Find God? from the New York Times Opinion section The secularization of America probably won’t reverse unless the intelligentsia gets religion. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/10/opinion/sunday/religion-meritocracy-god.html
Uncategorized Faith is positive Faith is positive. It hopes for something. It looks to the future and imagines something better. In a perfect world, everyone wins. The gospel has a universal message: “God so…
Uncategorized The Social Nature of Gender For many people, the idea that gender is a changing social construct goes against what they believe about how men and women should look and act. But if we consider…
Uncategorized The language we need does not yet exist I want at once to break down the association of “bad = dark” and “good = light” because of the way our stupid human brains will equate this to people…
Maya Angelou, Uncategorized Home From “Letter to My Daughter” by Maya Angelou I was born in St. Louis, Missouri, but from the age of three I grew up in Stamps, Arkansas, with my…
Uncategorized Drop by J. Dana Trent in The Christian Century https://jdanatrent.com/2021/03/drop-christian-century-essay-content-winner/
