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2015-04-29T20:38:44-05:00

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Jesus Can’t Breathe: a Spiritual Problem That Begs a Spiritual Response

Last updated on: April 29, 2015 at 8:38 pm By Guest Contributor

My friend, Peter Heltzel, and a cohort of some 75 faith leaders in New York have called the lack of Police accountability in New York and elsewhere “a spiritual problem.” They’re right, and it’s a problem that requires a spiritual response. Those faith leaders converged on New York’s city hall for a “Die in” protest in response to the death of Eric Garner, an African-American man who died of suffocation while being choked by officer Daniel Pantaleo, a New York... Read more

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2015-04-29T20:39:29-05:00

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White Evangelicals, Southern Baptists, and #BlackLivesMatter

Last updated on: April 29, 2015 at 8:39 pm By Guest Contributor

As several recent posts here show, I’m not terribly optimistic about the capacity of white evangelicalism to confront and correct its longstanding complicity in America’s sins of white supremacy, racism and injustice. The history, spirituality, hermeneutics and religious ideology of white evangelicalism just seem too intertwined with racial injustice. To sever those connections would require a radical transformation — so radical that it would no longer be white evangelicalism, but something else, something different and new. And evangelicals are conditioned... Read more

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2015-04-29T20:40:10-05:00

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After Ferguson: America Must Abandon “Sick Christianity”

Last updated on: April 29, 2015 at 8:40 pm By Guest Contributor

Our present moment is not about the occasional killing of black men, or about poor training of police officers, or even about better relationships between law enforcement and black and Hispanic communities. It is about violence. We have been bathed in it, and nurtured in it. It flows through our veins and covers our skin like a thick layer of sweat. From our seduction by guns to our formation as a people within gun cultures, Americans have made weapons part... Read more

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2014-12-08T10:40:00-05:00

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Communion and White Fear

Last updated on: December 8, 2014 at 10:40 am By Guest Contributor

As demonstrations continue around the country, protesting the deaths of African American men at the hands of police, we need to talk about White fear. Like many of the posts on this blog, it may seem to have little to do with Holy Communion, but from what I can see, it has everything to do with it — at least for those of us who are trying to follow in the way of Jesus. It’s just that our practice of... Read more

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2015-04-29T20:41:07-05:00

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On the Journey to White Shame

Last updated on: April 29, 2015 at 8:41 pm By Guest Contributor

The human relations I valued most were held cheap by the world I lived in. White lesbian Southern novelist and woman of letters Lillian Smith wrote these words(and those that follow in italics) in 1949, the same year my parents were born — one to white Catholic carpenters in Iowa, the other to white Protestant farmers and share croppers in central Louisiana. Growing up in north Louisiana in the 80s and 90s, I would never have imagined that Smith’s words... Read more

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2015-04-29T20:47:53-05:00

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Healing the Racial Wounds in America

Last updated on: April 29, 2015 at 8:47 pm By Guest Contributor

Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis and Rev. Dr. Serene Jones talk about the importance of love, faith and connection in healing the fault lines of race in America. Read more

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2015-04-29T20:48:25-05:00

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In Troubled Times, Does ‘The Black Church’ Still Matter?

Last updated on: April 29, 2015 at 8:48 pm By Guest Contributor

African-American clergy, academics and activists will hold a march on Washington this week, protesting the grand jury decisions in Ferguson, Mo. and New York City and call on the federal government to intervene in the prosecutions of police officers accused of unjustified use of force. I talked with Reverend Raphael Warnock and Eddie Glaude, Jr., two prominent African-American religious thinkers, about the role of black churches in the wake of major protests and demonstrations inspired by events in Ferguson and... Read more

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2015-04-29T20:48:56-05:00

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How Jesus saves through Michael Brown and Eric Garner

Last updated on: April 29, 2015 at 8:48 pm By Guest Contributor

One thing that I never tire of pondering as a Christian is how Jesus’ cross saves me and what it saves me from. Growing up evangelical, the answer was simple: Jesus took the punishment for my sin to save me from an angry, perfectionist God who wanted to burn me in hell forever. But this explanation looks nothing like the salvation that takes place in response to Peter’s first sermon about Jesus’ cross in Acts 2. Peter says nothing whatsoever... Read more

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2015-04-29T20:49:32-05:00

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The Silent Black Megachurch Pastor: We Need To Wake Up, Y’All

Last updated on: April 29, 2015 at 8:49 pm By Guest Contributor

by Crystal St. Marie LewisR3 Contributor First Published in Window on Religion Like most of you, I’ve been following news stories about Mike Brown, Eric Garner and Tamir Rice over the course of the past several weeks and days. I watched in horror as St. Louis County prosecuting attorney Robert P. McCulloch announced that Darren Wilson would not be indicted in Brown’s death. I looked on with unspeakable grief as headlines flooded my social media accounts, all indicating that no... Read more

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2015-04-29T20:50:08-05:00

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No Justice, No Christmas? Why Michael Brown and Eric Garner’s Deaths Make Advent Matter

Last updated on: April 29, 2015 at 8:50 pm By Guest Contributor

This week the streets all over our country have been filled with protesters expressing grief, anger, shock and sorrow that Officer Darren Wilson (who shot and killed the unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown) and Officer Daniel Pantaleo (who held the also-unarmed Eric Garner in a fatal chokehold during his arrest) failed to be indicted for their actions. Last night crowds across the U.S. staged sit-ins and die-ins, clogged bridges, and shut down major highways. Many of them chanted, “No Justice, No... Read more

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