Robert P. Jones The link between political leaders and prominent white churches was not just incidental It would not be until I was well into a PhD program at Emory University in my thirties that I was confronted with the brutal violence that white Christians deployed…
Kerry Connelly Implied hierarchy Let’s take the binary of white/nonwhite - you know, as a totally random example. Whether you’re ready to admit it yet or not, there’s a hierarchy built in there. Everything…
Justin Hancock My journey of waiting on the Lord by Rev. Justin Hancock https://neighboringmovement.org/blog/2021/5/3/my-journey-of-waiting-on-the-lord
Wil Gafney The Mark of Cain: Marked for Death, Marked for Life by Rev. Wil Gafney https://www.wilgafney.com/2021/04/25/markofcain/
Maya Angelou To Tell the Truth My mother, Vivian Baxter, warned me often not to believe that people really want the truth when they ask, “How are you?” She said that question was asked around…
Uncategorized We need to examine three things If we’re not intentional, we can all be in danger of becoming palace people. It’s easy to isolate and insulate ourselves. We do it without even trying. We listen to…
Robin DiAngelo We are products of our culture, not separate from it I recently gave a talk to a group of about two hundred employees. There were no more than five people of color in their organization, and of these five, only…
Lenny Duncan You just have to believe that this is the way things are. White supremacy doesn’t need active racists to function. It is a demonic system with a life of its own. It is radical evil. It functions with interdependent systems like militarism…
Uncategorized Jesus and the Eunuch Eunuchs, as theologian Austen Hartke describes, were “the gender-diverse people of the ancient world” who “lived outside the boundaries of sex and gender.” Basically, queer people. Many people today don’t…
Uncategorized Paradox Paradox is that strange place where two things are true at the same time. Often, the two things seem diametrically opposed. This idea that two things can be true at…
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
