Uncategorized This secessionist religion not only survived but also thrived After decades of regional tensions at the Triennial Conventions, where Baptists gathered to coordinate their church and missions work in the early eighteen hundreds, Baptists in the South brought the…
Uncategorized CDC Director Declares Racism A ‘Serious Public Health Threat’ from NPR https://www.npr.org/2021/04/08/985524494/cdc-director-declares-racism-a-serious-public-health-threat
Parker Palmer We must find ways to bridge our differences If we want to “create a politics worthy of the human spirit,” we must find ways to bridge our differences, whether they are defined by age, gender, class, race, ethnicity,…
Uncategorized A system that most of the public never bothered to examine We worship in a prison nation, where 90 percent of federal prisoners haven’t even seen a trial. The poor are offered deals in holding cells with forty other prisoners by…
Otis Moss III Black and Asian Christian leaders discuss role of church in fighting racism By Emily McFarlan Miller - Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2021/04/06/black-and-asian-christian-leaders-discuss-role-of-church-in-fighting-racism/
Uncategorized The Social Nature of Gender For many people, the idea that gender is a changing social construct goes against what they believe about how men and women should look and act. But if we consider…
Uncategorized The language we need does not yet exist I want at once to break down the association of “bad = dark” and “good = light” because of the way our stupid human brains will equate this to people…
Shane Claiborne Jesus wept over Jerusalem. Is he weeping over our gun problem? by Shane Claiborne https://religionnews.com/2021/03/30/jesus-wept-over-jerusalem-is-he-weeping-over-our-gun-problem/
Shane Claiborne How Much Hate Does It Take to Make a Hate Crime? by Angela Denker https://www.redletterchristians.org/how-much-hate-does-it-take-to-make-a-hate-crime/
Sojourners We Have A Chance To Redeem Voting Rights https://sojo.net/articles/we-have-chance-redeem-voting-rights