Brian McLaren Set the Story Today’s guest quote is by Brian McLaren, from A New Kind of Christianity: As I allowed Genesis, Exodus, and Isaiah—rather than Plato, Aristotle, and Caesar—to set the stage for the biblical…
Leigh Finke Why Does Language Matter So Much? Within the LGBTQ+ community, words matter. Profoundly so. And supportive leaders and allies need to understand this and speak accordingly. Thoughtful language shows respect, acknowledgment, and acceptance. This means using…
brenda salter mcneil If we refuse to face the truth There is an insidious and growing evil at work among us that continues to commodify and dehumanize human beings according to a racial hierarchy. This is rooted in a philosophical…
Matthew Tennant Listening Listening enables us to understand the other person. When we stop what we are doing and focus our attention on the other person, we can learn something. To learn something…
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 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…
Leigh Finke What Does LGBTQ+ Look Like? The first step in answering this question is to be aware of your own biases. What do you expect a queer teenager to look like? What stereotypes have you bought…
Philip Yancey Body Mindfulness InterVarsity Press has released a new, revised version of Philip Yancey's writings with Dr. Paul Brand, Fearfully and Wonderfully: The Marvel of Bearing God’s Image.
Brian McLaren Questioning Paradigms and dogma can be defended and enforced with guns and prisons, bullets and bonfires, threats and humiliations, fatwas and excommunications. But paradigms and dogma remain profoundly vulnerable with anomalies…
Brandan Robertson “I really am learning that God doesn’t show partiality to one group over another. “ Another place that this forward movement takes place in Scripture is in the Book of Acts 10. For the sake of time, I’ll summarize the account. The Apostle Peter receives…
Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons Private schools in the South opened by white parents to avoid desegregated public schools The Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 was heralded by progressive Christians and many other Americans as a huge advance for social justice, but it…
Amanda Henderson The truth had been relatively easy for me to avoid Five years ago, I found myself working in a place I hadn’t fully expected to be in - at the intersection of faith and politics in one of the more…
Barbara Brown Taylor You do not know Preachers learn early on that we preach the sermons we most need to hear, and that was true of the one I had just preached as well. The story of…
The Atlantic Americans’ Revulsion for Trump Is Underappreciated from The Atlantic As Democrats fret about their own prospects, many fail to recognize the president’s fundamental weakness. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/the-democrats-dont-understand-their-own-strength/608611/
Uncategorized Woman Responds To Companies Failing Because Of Coronavirus By Saying The Same Things Poor People Hear Those who are living below the poverty line have always faced criticism from both politicians and the public. While there are many proposed causes of poverty, those who rely on…
Religion News Service Buttigieg’s candidacy made being gay and openly Christian normal, LGBT activists say from Religion News Service Pete Buttigieg made history as the first openly gay presidential candidate to win primary delegates before ending his campaign on Sunday. But LGBT advocates working for…
Wil Gafney The Mark of Cain: Marked for Death, Marked for Life by Rev. Wil Gafney https://www.wilgafney.com/2021/04/25/markofcain/
The Atlantic Public Libraries’ Novel Response to a Novel Virus from The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2020/03/public-libraries-novel-response-to-a-novel-virus/609058/
Uncategorized Behind Trump’s demand to reopen churches: Slipping poll numbers and alarm inside his campaign from Politico https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/22/trump-churches-evaneglicals-coronavirus-274842