Uncategorized Light and a way forward to anyone stuck in the pain of their life journey 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…
Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons Fundamentalism Today “fundamentalism” has come into common usage to mean a strict resistance to change in any religious context, but at that time the word was new. It derives from a…
New York Times What Does Opportunity Look Like Where You Live? from the New York Times An excellent article with great graphics. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/05/13/opinion/inequality-cities-life-expectancy.html
New York Times Heather Cox Richardson Offers a Break From the Media Maelstrom. It’s Working. from the New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/27/business/media/heather-cox-richardson-substack-boston-college.html
Religion News Service The preaching politician: ‘Good Trouble’ documentary follows John Lewis from fields of Alabama to halls of Congress from Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2020/07/02/john-lewis-good-trouble-documentary-tells-tale-of-preaching-politician/
Jennifer Grant Jennifer Grant is an author, speaker, and editor in the Chicago area. A graduate of Southern Methodist University (MA, English/Creative Writing) and Wheaton College (BA, Interdisciplinary Studies), Grant is the author…
Lenny Duncan The roots of black Lutheranism in America Jehu would eventually be sent to Philadelphia to be a missionary to the black community there. He founded St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Center City Philadelphia. He bought the land…
Amanda Henderson The deep wounds have been on full display Yet as I wallowed in grief, I realized I was not alone. This is how most of the world has lived for most of history. Rarely are leaders on the…
Amanda Henderson Definitions From “Holy Chaos: Creating Connections in Divisive Times” by Amanda Henderson - Chalice Press I begin by laying the groundwork for our shared labor with definitions, as defined by Merriam-Webster…
Mark Feldmeir “Give me your tired, your poor” “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my…
Robin DiAngelo These ideologies make it very difficult We make sense of perceptions and experiences through our particular cultural lens. This lens is neither universal nor objective, and without it, a person could not function in any human…
Parker Palmer We must find ways to bridge our differences If we want to “create a politics worthy of the human spirit,” we must find ways to bridge our differences, whether they are defined by age, gender, class, race, ethnicity,…
Uncategorized A letter from Jourdon Dayton, Ohio August 7, 1865 To My Old Master, Colonel P. H. Anderson, Big Spring, Tennessee Sir: I got your letter, and was glad that you had not forgotten Jourdon,…
Lenny Duncan A cage is a cage, after all Capitalism is a satanic structure that’s built on the idea of building a meritocracy in the midst of democracy. In this system, we are told if we work hard and…
Parker Palmer The loss of efficiency is more than offset Our diversity consists only in part in demographic differences such as race, ethnicity, and social class. Equally important are the wildly different lenses through which we see, think, and believe.…
Ibram X. Kendi We must first take account of race As President Lyndon B. Johnson said in 1965, “You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the…
Andre Henry I know I’m not the only Black person to have ever sidestepped the revolution I blush to admit that pre-apocalyptic Andre didn’t see racism as being endemic to American society. I once believed racism was primarily an emotional attitude rooted in ignorance, an irrational…
Andre Henry I didn’t want to believe that racism was alive and well in this country I was once that kid with an odd love of country. I remember lying on my bedroom floor, legs kicking behind me, as I filled white, glossy poster boards with…
Brian McLaren Bought by powerful corporate leaders Most Christians today remain unaware of how Christian leaders since the 1930s have been intentionally co-opted (or, more bluntly, bought) by powerful corporate leaders in America (and elsewhere) to provide…
Susan K. Smith Calling God Good in Bad Times by Susan K. Smith We are constantly on the lookout for a “good” God, and to be honest, sometimes we say God is good when we are full of doubt…
Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons Christians should not be in favor of discrimination by Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons In Christ’s family there can be no division into Jew and non-Jew, slave and free, male and female. Among us you are all equal. That is, we…