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September 2018

September 28, 2018

No Words: When There’s Nothing Left to Say Before the Kavanaugh Vote

Like many of you, my moral outrage is spent after watching the Kavanaugh hearings yesterday....

September 26, 2018

Trigger Warning: 5 Points of Self-Care For When The News Literally Makes You Sick

Some people get stress headaches. Or skin rashes, or cold sores. For others, it's stomach...

September 24, 2018

Lasso the Truth: The Gospel According to Wonder Woman

This is the third sermon in a series, Resist: Justice Heroes from the Bible and...

September 19, 2018

Who We Believe, And Who We Believe is Important

We know the statistics. One in five women will be raped in her lifetime. Around...

September 18, 2018

The Things We Break, The Dreams We Bury

Saturday morning, I was in an urgent care waiting room with a sick kid. It's...

September 17, 2018

Boldly Go: The Gospel of Star Trek

This is part of a six-week sermon series "Resistance: Justice Heroes From the Bible and...

September 13, 2018

Who Is My Neighbor? Kevin Yoder’s Ugly Campaign Tactics and Creating An Other

In my sermon on Sunday, I talked about the power of fear in our current...

September 10, 2018

Assemble: The Gospel of the Avengers

This is the first sermon in a series, "Resist: Justice Heroes from the Bible and...

September 06, 2018

“Anonymous” is No Hero: And That Op-Ed is Not Resistance, It’s Privilege

For starters, that New York Times op-ed—the one that's breaking the internet?—it isn't at all...

September 05, 2018

Resist: Justice Heroes From the Bible and the Big Screen

Have you ever noticed that most big blockbuster movie hits are stories of social change?...

September 04, 2018

Bishop Fails Apology for Groping Ariana Grande: Let’s Maybe Try That Again

We all cringed. By "we," I mean every woman who's ever endured a time when...

August 2018

August 30, 2018

Aretha Didn’t Have a Will: Here are Five Reasons You Should

This just in: Aretha Franklin didn't have a will. Granted, her legacy is about far...

August 27, 2018

Guns Are the Problem, Guns Are the Problem, Guns Are the Problem …

While the nation grieved the passing of Senator John McCain—and stood appalled at the president's...

August 24, 2018

A Border Wall Won’t Protect Against Toxic Masculinity

The death of Mollie Tibbetts is horrifying. A guilty verdict for her killer, Cristhian Bahena Rivera,...

August 23, 2018

Toppling of Silent Sam: The End of Another Battle in a War We Can’t Quit Fighting

Guest post by the Rev. Chris Furr As an undergraduate at UNC, I took a...

August 22, 2018

In the Midst of Political Firestorms, Life Goes On: Don’t Miss It

It's easy to feel as though we're at the mercy of the zeitgeist. We're not.

August 21, 2018

Tracking and Other Morally Repugnant Campaign Tactics Undermine Our Nation

Editor’s note: “Political tracking,” the practice of following candidates and constantly filming their public statements,...

August 16, 2018

Predator Priests: The Church’s Great Sin of Patriarchy

It's every parent's worst nightmare. It's every church leader's worst nightmare. So if you are...

August 15, 2018

Resistance Training: Our Words Matter

He called her a dog. The day after white supremacists tried to rally in our...

August 10, 2018

If You Aren’t Progressive, What Are You? (Hint: It’s Not Conservative)

New trend: political ads in which a GOP incumbent says that his opponent is "too...

August 07, 2018

The Unengaged: America’s Real Third Party

The church I used to serve in Phoenix shared space with a preschool. It was...

August 06, 2018

The Gospel According to Hamilton: Borders, Walls, and Who’s Really Free

On Sunday, Aug. 5, dozens of churches nationwide participated in a Hamilton Preach-In. Each participating...

August 01, 2018

Flying Lessons

This story starts with a nest. In the eaves of a front porch, in Nashville,...

July 2018

July 30, 2018

GUEST BLOG: ‘White Supremacy’ Challenge Exposed My ‘White Fragility’

(Erin is on vacation this week. Today’s guest post is by teacher and writer Quinn...

July 26, 2018

Home and Holler: It’s Complicated

I'm on vacation this week and most of next. That doesn't mean I'm not writing....

July 19, 2018

Say What’s True: What Would Wouldn’t Do

What would, would not. And could, couldn't go. Or as we say down home, Can't...

July 16, 2018

Crony Capitalism is Making Us Sick

Let me tell you a short story about my day that reveals a lot about...

July 12, 2018

Not Just Papa John: There Are All Kinds of Racists

A friend of mine witnessed an incident the other day. Some folks had car trouble...

July 11, 2018

Better Songs, Better Stories: Give Girls More Than “Pretty”

We start conditioning girls young. The message is, your main goal in life is to...

July 09, 2018

Kids Are Still In Cages: And The Law Has Nothing To Do With It

In the current political climate, there are many things about which we can 'agree to...

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