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April 2019

April 04, 2019

God Alone Remembers: All Others Forget and Would Be Forgotten

God recalls. If God wishes, any truth, any event, is brought forward in the Divine...

April 01, 2019

The Nicer Parts of Hell: You Get What Justice and Love Can Give

Hell is as hellish as justice tempered by mercy can make it. The Christian genius...

March 2019

March 29, 2019

The Restitution Chorus: Sing It!

A man named William Miller made a mistake, a serious error, yet out of it...

March 17, 2019

In Defense of Pleasure (Guest Voices Caitlin Cogan Doemer)

I asked for different voices and I got them! Here is a guest post by...

March 16, 2019

A Reflection (Guest voices Leilani Mueller)

I asked for guest voices and I got ...awesomeness. Today we hear from Leilani Mueller....

March 14, 2019

Charlotte Bronte Helped Save My Soul OR Five Truths from Jane Eyre

I am sorry. Why? I loved being in love, but my ideas about love as...

March 13, 2019

Who Killed Commonsense? (A Guest Post by Daniel Larsen)

I asked for some new voices from social media chums. Here is a Daniel Larsen,...

March 10, 2019

Find and Collapse Your Options (A Guest Post: Micah Hoover)

We need some new voices . . . And so I went looking. Some I...

March 09, 2019

Strange Fruit

Strange fruit. Billie Holiday. This is perhaps the most powerful song ever recorded by an...

March 07, 2019

Four cities: One City

The Jewish people heard God and God promised them a King, not just any king,...

March 05, 2019

Joan was Triumphant!

Hero. Servant of the Savior, so the savior of France: Joan. Here in the play...

March 01, 2019

The Gosnell Movie Indicates the Death of Old Media (A Guest Post)

This is a guest post by Dr. Eric Holloway. Dr. Eric Holloway received a solid...

February 2019

February 27, 2019

The Cross and the Lynching Tree (James H. Cone)

The cross and the lynching tree are separated by nearly 2,000 years. Professor James H....

February 26, 2019

The Cross and the Lynching Tree: The Failure of Imagination

Joining a team can bring on a dull imagination. We start thinking within the team...

February 25, 2019

The Muse’s Favor (Let All Who Can Sing. . . Sing!) Priscilla Jane Thompson

When we limit beauty, we limit our ability to flourish as humans. A glory of...

February 24, 2019

Thabiti M. Anyabwile on The Decline of African American Theology

American Christian history has a powerful Reformed strain. Often other Christians, even those of us...

February 23, 2019

Mary Weston Fordham is Awesome, but Unfashionable

Want to be radical? Examine the worldview of Mary Weston Fordham as if it might...

February 21, 2019

Dusk or Hope Happens (Langston Hughes)

Dusk Wandering in the dusk, Sometimes You get lost in the dusk- And sometimes not....

February 20, 2019

Learning from Anthony Bradley While Reading His Liberating Black Theology

Anthony Bradley should be read. If he wrote it, read it. He is an unpredictable...

February 16, 2019

Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston)

To have a life to live, joy to share, only to be stifled by injustice,...

February 15, 2019

Grandpa’s Stories (Papaw!) OR Langston Hughes Reminds Me of the Best Stories

Grandpa’s Stories (Langston Hughes) The pictures on the television Do not make me dream as...

February 13, 2019

An American Marriage (Tayari Jones)

Any married American will find much of the book familiar, moving. This is an author...

February 11, 2019

Plain Theology for Plain People- The Last Things (Charles Octavius Boothe 9/9)

Charles Octavius Boothe began in God, moved from creation, to our fall, redemption, and life...

February 10, 2019

Plain Theology for Plain People- The Christian Church (Charles Octavius Boothe 8/9)

Some churchmen failed Charles Octavius Boothe, but the Lord of the Church never did. Some...

February 09, 2019

Plain Theology for Plain People- The Bible (Charles Octavius Boothe 7/9)

Read The Bible and slavery will die out: it is an abolitionist book. Race based...

February 08, 2019

Plain Theology for Plain People- How Christians Should Live and Labor (Charles Octavius Boothe 6/9)

Charles Octavius Boothe lived at a moment in American history where living as a Christian...

February 07, 2019

Plain Theology for Plain People- Gifts Flowing from the Grace of God (Charles Octavius Boothe 5/9)

We are as we are, but thinking shows we are not as we should be....

February 06, 2019

Plain Theology for Plain People- The Son: His Coming And His Work (Charles Octavius Boothe 4/9)

Jesus. Jesus is Christianity or at least the reason for Christianity, even the broken bits....

February 05, 2019

Plain Theology for Plain People: The Way of Salvation (Charles Octavius Boothe 3/9)

We know too little about the makers of the American mind, particularly in religion. Our...

February 04, 2019

Plain Theology for Plain People: On Man (Charles Octavius Boothe 2/9)

What is a human being? Our answers will do much to shame society, though our...