Religion News Service Study: Americans overwhelmingly support LGBTQ nondiscrimination laws The 2020 American Values Atlas study from PRRI finds that at least 60% of every U.S. religious group favors laws that would protect LGBTQ people from discrimination. But religious leaders…
Lenny Duncan We must dismantle, destroy, and bury white supremacy. Dear Church: “O dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. Thus says the Lord God to these bones” (Ezekiel 7:4-5): We must dismantle, destroy, and bury white supremacy. In…
Kerry Connelly Racist Because I know the R-word freaks everybody out, let’s go about defining it too, because I mean something very specific when I use it. Racism refers to a system…
Religion News Service Why Congress needs to act on immigration: It’s our nation too by Luis Velasquez https://religionnews.com/2021/03/11/why-congress-needs-to-act-on-immigration/
Lenny Duncan My ordination is radical. I have a myriad of drug felonies; I spent years homeless; I received my GED in county prison. The church affirming me is a radical act. It is a way…
Religion News Service ELCA leaders call on Congress to pass US Citizenship Act of 2021 in new letter Leaders of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America threw their support behind what they called ‘fair and compassionate transformations to our nation’s broken immigration system.’ https://religionnews.com/2021/03/04/elca-leaders-call-on-congress-to-pass-u-s-citizenship-act-of-2021-in-new-letter/
Leigh Finke What Does LGBTQ+ Look Like? The first step in answering this question is to be aware of your own biases. What do you expect a queer teenager to look like? What stereotypes have you bought…
Brian McLaren Dismantling the White Nationalist Jesus by Caleb Lines and Brian McLaren https://www.redletterchristians.org/dismantling-the-white-nationalist-jesus/
Kerry Connelly Types of privilege White privilege means that even though your life may not be easy, the color of your skin does not provide additional obstacles to your success. Because privilege is often invisible…
Uncategorized Anti-racism: White United Methodists speak out By Crystal Caviness https://www.umc.org/en/content/anti-racism-white-united-methodists-speak-out
Religion News Service The impeachment vote was a vote for white supremacy by Andre Henry - The refusal to confront the white supremacy at the Capitol is a refusal to reconcile America’s lofty democratic rhetoric with the state of its floundering institutions.…
Uncategorized Yolanda Pierce on grandmother theology, Black Jesus and Mariology 'I'm really trying to shift the discourse about who can do theology and what counts as theological source material,' says the first woman dean of Howard University’s divinity school and…
Robin DiAngelo We cling tightly to the ideology of individualism when asked to consider our own unearned advantage Individualism is a story line that creates, communicates, reproduces, and reinforces the concept that each of us is a unique individual and that our group memberships, such as race, class,…
Ausin Channing Brown Dear Nice White People What are you afraid of? by Austin Channing Brown https://austinchanning.substack.com/p/dear-nice-white-people?r=43xc6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=copy
Mark Feldmeir “Give me your tired, your poor” “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my…
Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons Private schools in the South opened by white parents to avoid desegregated public schools The Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 was heralded by progressive Christians and many other Americans as a huge advance for social justice, but it…
Ausin Channing Brown Joy as Resistance by Austin Channing Brown https://austinchanning.substack.com/p/joy-as-resistance?r=43xc6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=copy
Uncategorized 2021 Black History Month Recommendations for the Whole Family by Dominique Dubois Gilliard https://christiansforsocialaction.org/resource/2021-black-history-month-recommendations-for-the-whole-family/
Brandan Robertson “I really am learning that God doesn’t show partiality to one group over another. “ Another place that this forward movement takes place in Scripture is in the Book of Acts 10. For the sake of time, I’ll summarize the account. The Apostle Peter receives…
Robin DiAngelo These ideologies make it very difficult We make sense of perceptions and experiences through our particular cultural lens. This lens is neither universal nor objective, and without it, a person could not function in any human…
