Religion News Service Trump unmasked his racist campaign strategy — and Christians have choices to make by Jim Wallis, through Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2020/07/13/trump-unmasked-his-racist-campaign-strategy-and-christians-have-choices-to-make/
Uncategorized Why Black Christians are bracing for a ‘whitelash’ https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/10/us/white-black-christians-racism-burke/index.html
Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons Christians should not be in favor of discrimination by Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons In Christ’s family there can be no division into Jew and non-Jew, slave and free, male and female. Among us you are all equal. That is, we…
Religion News Service The Price of White Evangelical Patriarchy from Religion & Politics https://religionandpolitics.org/2020/07/07/the-price-of-white-evangelical-patriarchy/
jonathan wilson-hartgrove New book urges white Christians to assess their ‘abuses of faith’ A new book by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove https://www.ncronline.org/news/opinion/new-book-urges-white-christians-assess-their-abuses-faith
jonathan wilson-hartgrove The white Christian nationalist scam by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove in The Christian Century https://www.christiancentury.org/review/books/white-christian-nationalist-scam
Wil Gafney Hagar, Sarah and Black Lives Matter by Wil Gafney https://www.wilgafney.com/2020/06/20/hagar-sarah-and-black-lives-matter/
Uncategorized A new dilemma for Trump’s team: Preventing super-spreader churches One month after President Donald Trump ordered the nation’s governors to immediately reopen churches, his administration is facing a difficult dilemma. Clusters of Covid-19 cases are surfacing in counties across…
Barbara Brown Taylor Sit Me Down I can respect almost anyone who admits to being human while reading a divine text. After that, we can talk—about why we highlight some teachings and ignore others, about how…
Frederick Buechner If God Speaks If God speaks anywhere, it is into our personal lives that he speaks. Someone we love dies, say. Some unforeseen act of kindness or cruelty touches the heart or makes…
Uncategorized “Dismantling Racism: Pressing on to Freedom” United Methodist Church leaders will launch a plan of action to galvanize church members and others to actively stand against racism in the wake of the death of George Floyd…
Father James Martin The Holy Spirit is moving us to act against racism by Father James Martin https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2020/06/01/george-floyd-fr-james-martin-holy-spirit-racism
Barbara Brown Taylor “Without Buddha I Could Not Be a Christian” - from “Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others” by Barbara Brown Taylor - HarperOne One of my favorite authors, Paul Knitter, has written a book called “Without…
Uncategorized This is a moment of reckoning on race for white Christians a CNN interview https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/19/us/white-christians-racism-robert-jones/index.html
Religion News Service Evangelicals perfected cancel culture. Now it’s coming for them. by Jonathan Merritt in Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2020/06/17/evangelicals-perfected-cancel-culture-now-its-coming-for-them/
Patricia Raybon Sweeter Than Honey by Patricia Raybon, on Our Daily Bread https://ourdailybread.ca/sweeter-than-honey/
Marcus Borg Sometimes the Bible Is Wrong Because the awareness that the Bible is sometimes wrong has been so important in my own Christian journey and because I am convinced that this realization is important for all…
Religion News Service Remembering the Christianity of Jesus, not empire by Amy Butler; from Religion News Service "The last week has stripped bare the fact that the message and teachings of Jesus have been co-opted by empire: hijacked and skewed…
Barbara Brown Taylor The most troubling question of all was why my religion seemed so much less gracious That first field trip opened a whole new folder of questions for me, both as a person and as a teacher of young persons. Is it better to read about…
Uncategorized Jesus’ Cross and the Public Lynching of Black Bodies by Natasha Sistrunk Robinson https://asistasjourney.com/2020/06/01/jesus-cross-and-the-public-lynching-of-black-bodies/
