Uncategorized The Christian Right Is in Decline, and It’s Taking America With It from the New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/09/opinion/religious-right-america.html
Uncategorized Christian nationalists Americans have never had a monolithic view of Jesus, nor have they had a monolithic understanding of what Christianity is. In fact, so-called liberals and conservatives are miles apart when…
Uncategorized How Brandan Robertson, a.k.a. the ‘Tik-Tok Preacher,’ Is Taking on the Anti-LGBTQ Teachings of His Faith Congratulations Brandan! https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/tiktok-preacher-brandan-robertson-lgbtq-faith-1185814/
Uncategorized Not only Baptists The Baptist denominational history is not unique in American Christianity. Virtually all of the major white mainline Protestant denominations split over the issue of slavery. For example, Northern and Southern…
Uncategorized We walked together into the valley of the shadow of doubt The church I served for twenty-four years in the Washington, DC, area was full of people like you. Many were raised Catholic, Methodist, Baptist, Lutheran, Presbyterian, or Pentecostal but dropped…
Uncategorized ‘It must be you.’ A nonprofit helps Latino Catholic young adults grow in faith and build community https://faithandleadership.com/it-must-be-you-nonprofit-helps-latino-catholic-young-adults-grow-faith-and-build-community
Uncategorized What We Believe About History by Kristin Kobes Du Mez https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/27/special-series/kristin-kobes-du-mez-what-we-believe-about-history.html
Uncategorized Reconciling our Differences by Modeling the Incarnation from The Reformed Journal https://reformedjournal.com/reconciling-our-differences-by-modeling-the-incarnation/
Uncategorized A short history of the long conservative assault on Black voting power https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/08/politics/black-voter-suppression/index.html
Uncategorized 3 Confessions Of A Recovering Ex-Evangelical Pastor by Dr. Jeff Burns https://www.patheos.com/blogs/jeffburns/2021/05/3-confessions-of-a-recovering-ex-evangelical-pastor/
Uncategorized We need to examine three things If we’re not intentional, we can all be in danger of becoming palace people. It’s easy to isolate and insulate ourselves. We do it without even trying. We listen to…
Uncategorized Jesus and the Eunuch Eunuchs, as theologian Austen Hartke describes, were “the gender-diverse people of the ancient world” who “lived outside the boundaries of sex and gender.” Basically, queer people. Many people today don’t…
Uncategorized Paradox Paradox is that strange place where two things are true at the same time. Often, the two things seem diametrically opposed. This idea that two things can be true at…
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…
