July 24, 2022
So is it any wonder that in some of the passages where Jesus comes in the presence of a demon-possessed person that the demon cried out at Jesus in fear and anger?
July 24, 2022
So is it any wonder that in some of the passages where Jesus comes in the presence of a demon-possessed person that the demon cried out at Jesus in fear and anger?
July 17, 2022
If there is one thing I really, truly took away from my time in Alabama, it was how welcoming these Black communities were to white interlopers, how much they are reconciling the bloody past in this country, how much faith they have, and how willing they are to forgive and move on together
July 10, 2022
We are not the Samaritan. We are the one in the ditch. And we’re looking at someone we have been told all our lives is a danger to us and might even kill us walk up to us and save us. Jesus gives a parable where our arch-enemy bears the image of God.
July 3, 2022
My whole childhood, I saw a war on poverty, a war on drugs, a war on terrorism, and war on whatever… it’s the only metaphor we have. We’re such a warring culture, but Jesus is not on the wolf side, he sends us out like lambs.
June 26, 2022
Foxes have holes. Birds of the air have their nests, but the Son of Man, like so many folks today… have no place to lay their heads. We have placed profit over people.
June 19, 2022
I love the Bible not because the stories happened, but they are happening, right now. All the time.
June 12, 2022
Slavery was a massive issue in our country. It is in the Constitution. It shaped state lines and impacted when territories became states. It shaped census numbers as black folk who were slaves were counted as 3/5s a person. It impacted daily lives then and now.
June 5, 2022
The creeds we can treat, like Quaker minister Philip Gulley states, “Like an old family photograph on the wall.”
May 29, 2022
Memorial Day. A day to honor those who gave their life for this country. So let us recall the hallowed dead. 18 students and 3 teachers in an elementary school in Texas. The Taiwanese church in southern California. The 10 killed, mostly black folks at the Tops Supermarket in Buffalo, NY.
May 22, 2022
We cannot be the church of Nicaea. Nor is God us to be the Acts of the Apostles church as that was the first chapter. God is calling us to be the church here and now.
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