The experience of James Bradley as one of America’s first black seminarians can show us how far we have come. But, even as theology schools consider ways to address their culture of whiteness, it also shows us how far we have yet to travel.
A pastoral dilemma about art and nudity: embodied faith and raising children in the church
Oh, the dilemmas of pastoral ministry. Here I sit, looking at a beautiful piece of art for Sunday’s order of worship, trying to determine whether to cover the nakedness of the man helped by the Good Samaritan.
Move so our kids get ‘better’ schools? Why our family is staying put on the wrong side of the tracks
The urban neighborhood where we have chosen to live is not always joyful. My heart has been broken more than a few times. But this place and its people have been my salvation.
Letter to the Editor for 10.24.19
Essay misrepresents Riverside Church’s decision by Macieo Anderson, Bronx, New York
Letter to the Editor – Essay misrepresents Riverside Church’s decision
Essay misrepresents Riverside Church’s decision by Macieo Anderson
President Trump is being investigated, not lynched
The president’s racist Twitter message employing the language of lynching was a diabolical suggestion that the current impeachment inquiry is the existential, moral and legal equivalent of murder.
Here are your inspirational clichés for today
Don’t feel sad if you did not spend yesterday or today thinking about it being the day that the Lord has made and being glad in it. Tomorrow will also be a day that the Lord will make.
Hope in ritual: A Baptist prays the Daily Office
The Daily Office takes out that deciding factor of what to pray, how to pray, when to pray and allows me to go through the entirety of scripture, even the parts I’d rather forget were there.
‘The saints have no extra credits’: Reformations then and now
Luther’s phrase, “The saints have no extra credits,” reminds us that the practice of selling indulgences didn’t end with the Reformation. Consider William Barr’s recent “religious liberty” speech at Notre Dame Law School.
Letter to the Editor for 10.18.19
Mourning Elijah Cummings by Kathy Manis Findley, Macon, Georgia
Letter to the Editor – Mourning Elijah Cummings
Mourning Elijah Cummings by Kathy Manis Findley
Hope in spite of killer cops and Kanye’s cult
The deep and abiding anger that we harbor at the world as it is today will kill us in greater numbers than the actions of crooked cops, Trump-loving white nationalists or mass shooters. As elusive as it may seem, seeking the peace that surpasses all understanding must be our daily work.