William Barber Evangelicals using religion for political gain is nothing new. It is a US tradition by William Barber in The Guardian No one who has read US history can be surprised by the hypocrisy of Evangelicals for Trump but it also tells us how their…
Brian McLaren 3 New Year’s Resolutions for Pastors in 2020 by Brian McLaren https://brianmclaren.net/3-new-years-resolutions-for-pastors-in-2020/
Jacqui Lewis Rev. Jacqui Lewis and Peter Wehner discuss Christianity and Trump https://www.msnbc.com/craig-melvin/watch/president-trump-looking-to-cement-and-expand-evangelical-support-76017733559
Religion News Service 50 years after ‘Black Manifesto,’ religious groups take up reparations again The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. described 11 o’clock on Sunday morning as the “most segregated hour in America." This story is one in a series by Religion News Service…
Patricia Raybon Loving God Right in 2020 by Patricia Raybon https://www.patriciaraybon.com/loving-god-right-in-2020/
Brian McLaren This Christmas, the Christianity Today editorial was a ray of light from Brian McLaren https://www.newsweek.com/evangelical-pastor-trump-christianity-today-christmas-1479369
Rachel Held Evans By Challenging Evangelicals, She Changed Them The New York Times interviews Dan Evans, husband of the late Rachel Held Evans. "This week, 'The Daily' is revisiting some of our favorite episodes of the year and checking…
Diana Butler Bass Making Room for a Savior Diana Butler Bass provides an audio devotional for Riverside Church in New York City. “Jesus heals not only us as individuals but a savior has been born, one who will…
The Atlantic How Trump Lost an Evangelical Stalwart from The Atlantic "Unfortunately, a number of my brothers and sisters will just defend [the president] to the end. They somehow think that’s going to be a good witness to…
Frederick Buechner Five Books for Frederick Buechner Beginners Chosen by Jeffrey Munroe, author of “Reading Buechner: Exploring the Work of a Master Memoirist, Novelist, Theologian, and Preacher” (InterVarsity Press). https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2019/december-web-only/five-books-frederick-buechner-beginners-jeffrey-munroe.html
Uncategorized Millennials Are Leaving Religion And Not Coming Back from FiveThirtyEight "A majority (57 percent) of millennials agree that religious people are generally less tolerant of others." "Why does it matter if millennials’ rupture with religion turns out to…
Jana Riess Postcards from the Protestant decline in America by Jana Riess https://religionnews.com/2019/12/10/postcards-from-the-protestant-decline-in-america/
Patricia Raybon Solving the Secret of Everyday Love by Patricia Raybon As Wendell Berry wrote, community “is the ability to pass time with people you do not and will not know well, talking about nothing in particular, with…
Religion News Service The Great American Slumbering? "Maybe the millennials are seeing what too many Christians are not. Is it possible that we are living through “The Great American Slumber,” a time when too many churches are…
Father James Martin This Advent, do less and pray more by Father James Martin https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2019/12/02/advent-do-less-and-pray-more
Brian McLaren Q & R: Spermless conception? by Brian McLaren https://brianmclaren.net/q-r-spermless-conception/
Uncategorized Resurgence of nationalism is a ‘setback for humanity’, says German theologian Jürgen Moltmann https://www.christiantoday.com/article/resurgence-of-nationalism-is-a-setback-for-humanity-says-german-theologian-jurgen-moltmann/133756.htm
Religion News Service The priest who channeled Black Power into the Catholic Church from Religion News Service Thanksgiving week began in mourning for the Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago and many black Catholics, as news came that the Rev. George H. Clements passed away…
Uncategorized What We Can Learn From Waiting by Lori Erickson https://mailchi.mp/e1b40e7c1f68/waiting?e=e2fa9bfa35
Kaitlin Curtice Let’s Acknowledge Our Holiday Tensions by Kaitlin Curtice https://kaitlincurtice.com/2019/12/01/lets-acknowledge-our-holiday-tensions/
Henri Nouwen Henri Nouwen on celebrating the holidays — and every day Excerpted from “Following Jesus: Finding Our Way Home in An Age of Anxiety,” drawn from talks given by the Catholic priest and theologian while he was teaching at Harvard Divinity…
