Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons Just Faith: Reclaiming Progressive Christianity This book focuses on the type of progressive Christian political engagement championed by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and many others in the public square and outside the walls…
Barbara Brown Taylor No one owns God God alone knows what is good. For reasons that will never be entirely clear, God has a soft spot for religious strangers, both as agents of divine blessing and recipients…
Brian McLaren Interpretation Today’s guest quote is by Brian McLaren, from A New Kind of Christianity: As I look back on my own experience with the Bible, I figure I've heard or given over…
Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons Un-Christlike Conservativism I’ve traveled around the country working at the intersection of progressive politics and religion for the past decade and met countless activists bogged down by un-Christlike conservativism prevailing in our…
Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons The false prophets of conservative Christianity When historians look back at the history of Christianity and politics in the United States, 2016 will hopefully be marked as the turning of the tide. The alliance between the…
Religion News Service QAnon: The alternative religion that’s coming to your church by Katelyn Beaty https://religionnews.com/2020/08/17/qanon-the-alternative-religion-thats-coming-to-your-church/
Religion News Service The 2020 election is a moment of truth for white Christianity by Jim Wallis https://religionnews.com/2020/09/15/the-2020-election-is-a-moment-of-truth-for-white-christianity/
Uncategorized A Letter to White Evangelical Friends by Jeff Munroe https://blog.reformedjournal.com/2020/09/14/a-letter-to-white-evangelical-friends/
Diana Butler Bass A culture unto itself The following sharp assessment came from an Anglican in Sydney, Australia: “I’m continually being disappointed by (bordering on disillusioned by) the institutional church. Institutional self-preservation seems more important than those…
Stephen Mattson For Christians Who Feel Betrayed By Christianity by Stephen Mattson https://sojo.net/articles/christians-who-feel-betrayed-christianity
Patricia Raybon Making His Music by Patricia Raybon; in Our Daily Bread Ministries https://odb.org/2020/09/10/making-his-music
Barbara Brown Taylor Could it be that our favorite verses are the ones that make us feel most right? In the Christian New Testament, Jesus himself admits that he does not know everything there is to know about God. When his disciples ask him to tell them about the…
Religion News Service Voter guides show the power and duplicity of American evangelicalism by Angela Denker in Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2020/09/03/voter-guides-show-the-power-and-duplicity-of-american-evangelicalism/
Frederick Buechner A Crazy, Holy Grace A crazy, holy grace I have called it. Crazy because whoever could have predicted it? Who can ever foresee the crazy how and when and where of a grace that…
Simone Campbell Praying for a New Creation to Come from Chaos by Sister Simone Campbell https://networklobby.org/082120prayer/
Religion News Service Trump or Biden? What’s a Catholic voter to do? from Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2020/08/27/trump-or-biden-whats-a-catholic-voter-to-do/
Diana Butler Bass Gratitude involves not only what we feel, but also what we do. It cannot be overstated that gratitude is an emotion, a complex set of feelings involving appreciation, humility, wonder, and interdependence. Gratitude is, however, more than just an emotion. It is…
Brian McLaren Inspiration Today’s guest quote is by Brian McLaren, from A New Kind of Christianity: So we judge internal tension and debate as flaws or failures in the components of a constitution, but…
Uncategorized Becoming Brave: Finding the Courage to Pursue Racial Justice Now A new book by Brenda Salter McNeil Becoming Brave offers a distinctly Christian framework for addressing systemic injustice. It challenges Christians to be everyday activists who become brave enough to break…
Frederick Buechner With Great Laughter by Frederick Buechner Part of the farce was that for the first time in my life that year in New York, I started going to church regularly, and what was…
