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 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…
Stephen M. R. Covey How To Increase Your Integrity So how do we go about increasing our integrity? First, we need to consider what degree of integrity we currently have. At this point, you might find it helpful to…
Uncategorized Our awareness of transcendence 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…
Uncategorized To those who are learning about injustices for the first time 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…
Uncategorized What our physical bodies have to teach us about healing wounds within community 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…
Uncategorized What spirituality is In a twin study on religion and mental health, psychiatric genetic-epidemiologist Kenneth Kendler and his colleagues looked at “religion” as compared with “spirituality” in nearly two thousand adult twins. It…
Lisa Sharon Harper The church itself became the primary auction block for slavery The new law protected White women and their children from slavery by removing the financial impetus for their enslavement. They would be indentured to the local parish, not enslaved by…
Uncategorized When Your Job Fills In for Your Faith, That’s a Problem from the New York Times by Carolyn Chen
Uncategorized The way in which a parent supports a child’s spiritual development has a great deal to do with how a child grows Science now tells us that this spiritual faculty is inborn, fundamental to the human constitution, central in our physiology and psychology. Spirituality links brain, mind, and body. As we’ll see…
Richard Rohr The Hero Must Leave the Home The very first sign of a potential hero’s journey is that he or she must leave home, the familiar, which is something that may not always occur to someone in…
Uncategorized Convictions Our response is framed by seven core convictions that we believe are foundational to a constructive engagement with the work of reparations. The first regards the nature of racism itself.…
Brandan Robertson How can Christianity help us with our privilege and bias? But how can Christianity help us with our privilege and bias? How can we as followers of Christ begin to work to understand and address these realities? One of the…
Uncategorized Study: More than 3/4 of Republican evangelicals want US declared a Christian nation While some Christian groups would like the US government to make their faith the official religion of the US, a new poll shows most Americans know that would be unconstitutional.…
Richard Rohr I know some of us do not want to hear that Most people are trying to build the platform of their lives all by themselves, while working all the new levers at the same time. I think of CEOs, business leaders,…
Lisa Sharon Harper The impact of colonization on the conquered is fragmentation In every corner of the world, a primary weapon of Western domination has been to cut off indigenous and other subjugated peoples from their lands, from their families and communities,…
Uncategorized More Americans stay away from church as pandemic nears year three Many Americans already had dropped out of church life before the pandemic. COVID-19 gave them a reason to let go completely, according to a new survey. Read the full article…
Uncategorized Business schools are getting more progressive. These 8 courses show how The Aspen Institute, a nonprofit think tank based in Washington, says it aims to honor professors teaching students “new ideas about the role of business in creating a sustainable, inclusive…
Uncategorized Whose Faith Matters? The Fight for Religious Liberty Beyond the Christian Right A new report from the Law, Rights, and Religion Project at Columbia Law School documents the many contexts in which people of faith engaged in humanitarian and social justice work…
Brian McLaren God Unbound: Theology in the Wild (aka The Galapagos Islands: A Spiritual Journey) A new book from Brian McLaren https://brianmclaren.net/god-unbound-theology-in-the-wild-aka-the-galapagos-islands-a-spiritual-journey/
Kaitlin Curtice Recommendations for elementary-level books by Native writers for Native American heritage month by Kaitlin Curtice 1) We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga by Traci Sorel (Cherokee) 2) Jingle Dress Dancer by Cynthia Leitich Smith (Muscogee Creek) 3) For a Girl Becoming by Joy Harjo (Muscogee Creek) 4) 1621: A New Look…