Uncategorized Churches obsessed with their right to reopen are missing the point by Peter Marty https://www.christiancentury.org/article/editorpublisher/churches-obsessed-their-right-reopen-are-missing-point
Uncategorized This Is the Way the World Ends by Angela Denker https://www.redletterchristians.org/sundaysermon-this-is-the-way-the-world-ends/
Patricia Raybon Will Being Humble Heal Us? by Patricia Raybon https://www.incourage.me/2020/05/will-being-humble-heal-us.html
Philip Yancey PRAYING ALL THE WAY TO THE BANK by Philip Yancey https://philipyancey.com/praying-all-the-way-to-the-bank
Diana Butler Bass Pentecost, Prejudice, and Pandemic by Diana Butler Bass https://churchanew.org/blog/2020/05/28/butlerbass3
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
Marcus Borg “God is wholly other.” Initially seminary only deepened my doubt. There I learned two things about God that exacerbated the problem. On the one hand, much of what I heard reinforced my notion that…
Shane Claiborne Gun control group starts faith-driven push ahead of election from Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2020/05/12/gun-control-group-starts-faith-driven-push-ahead-of-election/
Frederick Buechner Dreams No matter how prosaic, practical, and ploddingly unimaginative we may be, we have dreams like everybody else. All of us do. In them even the most down-to-earth and pedestrian of…
Sojourners Unequal suffering: Here’s how Congress should help by Jim Wallis While each of us has borne a variety of new burdens and dangers during this pandemic, those burdens are by no means distributed equally. On the one…
Jana Riess Learning (again) to walk in the dark by Jana Riess A reflection on the pandemic, being a Christian, and Barbara Brown Taylor's book. https://religionnews.com/2020/04/28/learning-again-to-walk-in-the-dark/
Marcus Borg Why be a Christian in the twenty-first century? From “Days of Awe and Wonder: How to Be a Christian in the 21st Century” by Marcus Borg - HarperOne A portion of the Foreword by Marianne Borg: Why be…
Diana Butler Bass Vertical Theology Here in the labyrinth, I struggle to find words to describe what I feel. Up on the mountaintop, I knew the language to describe God: majestic, transcendent, all-powerful, heavenly Father,…
Philip Yancey “Why?” by Philip Yancey That question comes up whenever tragedy strikes. We have no more definitive answer than Job got, when God appeared in person but evaded the question. We have…
Jana Riess If we’re reimagining church, let’s take it outside by Jana Riess https://religionnews.com/2020/04/22/if-were-reimagining-church-lets-take-it-outside/
Kathleen Norris “I can’t imagine why God would want me” The ancient word “oblate” proved instructive for me. Having no idea what it meant, I appreciated its rich history when I first looked it up in the dictionary. But I…
Religion News Service How a rally for the right in Charlottesville emboldened a resurgent Religious Left from Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2020/04/17/how-a-rally-for-the-right-in-charlottesville-emboldened-a-reviving-religious-left/
Brian McLaren God Was in the Wind by Brian McLaren https://brianmclaren.net/god-was-in-the-wind-a-poemwalking-meditation/
Shane Claiborne, Uncategorized Heeding God’s Call to End Gun Violence https://www.heedinggodscall.org/
Religion News Service When character counts most in choosing a president from Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2020/04/16/when-character-counts-most-in-choosing-a-president/
Religion News Service One church’s tale of two pandemics, 100 years apart from Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2020/04/14/church-closures-1918-and-now/
