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
Uncategorized 4 Steps Toward Compassionate Change By Martha Beck https://www.compassionatelistening.org/so/2aNtelRQl#/main
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…
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
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
Uncategorized Record numbers of Americans identify as LGBTQ. What does that mean for Christianity? LGBTQ Americans are opting out of organized religion altogether partly because evangelical Christian denominations and the Roman Catholic Church oppose LGBTQ rights and same-sex marriage. https://religionnews.com/2022/02/23/record-numbers-of-americans-identify-as-lgbtq-what-does-that-mean-for-christianity/
Uncategorized Children were raised, not parented In generations past, children were raised, not parented. Raising children mainly amounted to keeping them healthy, clothed, and fed as best you could while gradually integrating them into the economic…
Uncategorized What does it mean to become an AFFIRMING CHURCH? by Stacey Chomiak https://staceychomiak.com/2022/01/29/what-does-it-mean-to-become-an-affirming-church/
Uncategorized Somebody That I Used to Know: deconstructing American faith by Kaitlin Curtice https://kaitlincurtice.substack.com/p/somebody-that-i-used-to-know-03e
Uncategorized Racism as Relational Division In 1994, Spencer Perkins and Chris Rice published a book that became something of a sensation in the American church. The book, More Than Equals: Racial Healing for the Sake…