Uncategorized Evangelical Leaders Condemn ‘Radicalized Christian Nationalism’ from NPR https://www.npr.org/2021/02/24/970685909/evangelical-leaders-condemn-radicalized-christian-nationalism
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…
Diana Butler Bass Three Views of Jeep’s Bruce Springsteen Commercial from Diana Butler Bass: https://dianabutlerbass.substack.com/p/a-better-middle?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=copy from Jeffrey Salkin: https://religionnews.com/2021/02/09/super-bowl-jeep/ from Amanda Tyler https://religionnews.com/2021/02/11/dear-jeep-christian-nationalism-cannot-unite-us/
Shane Claiborne A former Confederate state just voted to abolish its death penalty. Here’s why that’s a big deal by Shane Claiborne https://religionnews.com/2021/02/05/a-former-confederate-state-just-abolished-its-death-penalty-heres-why-thats-a-big-deal/
Religion News Service What next? Christian leaders offer advice for confronting Christian nationalism One good first step for Christians is to learn more about Christian nationalism — and why it conflicts with Christianity. https://religionnews.com/2021/01/28/what-next-christian-leaders-offer-advice-for-confronting-christian-nationalism/
Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons To de-radicalize the story, to make it anything other than extreme, is to reduce the clear message of the early church. “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” a rich young ruler asked Jesus (Mark 10:17). Many conservative Christians offer an easy answer for that question, claiming that…
Religion News Service I have election protesters and ‘Never Trumpers’ in my pews. How can we move forward together? from Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2021/01/26/i-have-election-protestors-and-never-trumpers-in-my-pews-how-can-we-move-forward-together/
Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons Trump fueled conservative Christian power. But with Biden and Warnock, that can change. For decades, conservatives controlled American religious discourse. But a progressive coalition is on the rise. (Got that right!!) https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/trump-fueled-conservative-christian-power-biden-warnock-can-change-ncna1255461
Father James Martin God’s voice or mine? 7 tips on what to listen to in prayer by Father James Martin https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2021/01/21/james-martin-book-excerpt-prayer-god-239756
Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons It’s the gospel It is the black social gospel that led directly to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement. “First, many people talk about the civil rights movement…
Uncategorized Only the Church Can Truly Defeat a Christian Insurrection by David French https://frenchpress.thedispatch.com/p/only-the-church-can-truly-defeat
Brian McLaren The storming of the US Capitol by Christians was a sickening sight by Brian McLaren https://www.premierchristianity.com/Blog/The-storming-of-the-US-Capitol-by-Christians-was-a-sickening-sight/ Tragically, too many American churches have become aggregators for Trumpist organizers, rendering sincere but gullible believers tools in Trump's delusional power-grab.
Religion News Service Taking the white Christian nationalist symbols at the Capitol riot seriously by Robert P. Jones https://religionnews.com/2021/01/07/taking-the-white-christian-nationalist-symbols-at-the-capitol-riot-seriously/
Brian McLaren Ortho- Today’s guest quote is by Brian McLaren, from A New Kind of Christianity: Our faith is vain and self-centered if it only brings blessing for us or to us. It also…
Barbara Brown Taylor Entrusting yourself to God As variously as people describe it, they all discover that if you are determined to walk the way of Jesus, there comes a time when you must leave the lower…
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…
Brandan Robertson You have heard it said Now, the next question that naturally arises is this: If truth is progressive, then is it possible for something that was once considered to be true to become no longer…
Otis Moss III Raphael Warnock is the man to bring the gospel back into public life by Otis Moss III https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/12/10/raphael-warnock-black-church-theology/
Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons “The better we know Jesus, the more social do his thoughts and aims become” Today, we mostly think of social justice as a secular movement sometimes associated with progressive causes that are fighting the “Christian right” and other conservative groups. But many of the…
Uncategorized The Long Road to White Christians’ Trumpism By Elizabeth Jemison https://religionandpolitics.org/2020/12/08/the-long-road-to-white-christians-trumpism/
Religion News Service Eric Metaxas and the losing of the evangelical mind Christians can’t wait for the sociologists to sort out why our fellow congregants believe in ‘Q’ or that Trump won the election. We need a strategy to restore a few…
