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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/14/roger-stone-michael-flynn-distorting-christianity-reawaken-america

As Bem and I considered how we might communicate what our physical bodies have to teach us about healing wounds within community, we were reminded of the parables told by…

from the New York Times by Carolyn Chen

by Angela Denker https://churchanew.org/blog/posts/angela-denker-americas-blood-moon-do-not-look-away

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/19/buffalo-shooting-peter-cook-christians-guns

Ibram X. Kendi’s term “anti-racist” has offered white people a language for how to address injustice: “The opposite of ‘racist” isn’t ‘not racist’. It is ‘anti-racist’.....One either allows racial inequities…

by John Pavlovitz https://johnpavlovitz.com/2022/05/11/a-pro-choice-man-grieving-pro-life-women/

https://religionnews.com/2022/05/12/amy-kennys-my-body-is-not-a-prayer-request-imagines-a-disability-centered-church/

In 1951 British psychologist John Bowlby proposed something radical concerning human development. Bowlby proposed that love matters. And not just in a philosophical or a poetic sense. Love, he theorized,…

Maryland colonists enslaved Africans as early as 1640, but legislators did not begin to embed slavery into the colony’s legal framework until 1664. Four elements converged to launch Maryland’s quest…

Let’s start at the heart of the matter with a simple definition: What is the human capacity for spirituality? At the core of spirituality is the transcendent relationship, a dynamic…

by John Pavlovitz https://johnpavlovitz.com/2021/11/10/for-white-people-tired-of-being-called-racist/ "I’m tired of white people supporting a political party incessantly working to keep people of color from voting and feigning outrage at the suggestion they may…

Freedom and equality - regardless of religion or class status - were radical new ideas when the United States was formed. At the same time, the US economy was based…

by Susan K. Williams Smith             The late Congressman John Lewis said “our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month, or a year. It is the…

We all know at least a bit of the science of wound healing just by our life experiences. Our knees get scraped and blood oozes out. Soon it is sticky…

Mental health is one of the most pressing issues facing teenagers today. Diagnoses of anxiety and depression are occurring more frequently and at increasingly younger ages. And while mental health…

Why do I tell this story in light of the abuse and murder of autistic children? And why do I tell it using only the barest outline of facts? Because…

In the mid-1960s, the American Dream was as easy to achieve as it ever was or as been since, with good union jobs, subsidized home ownership, strong financial protections, a…

In 1654, mixed-race Elizabeth Key legally challenged her enslavement on the basis of three points: (1) British law barred the enslavement of British citizens; (2) British common law established the…