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March 18, 2016
Sharing a witness of Word and thought, as led by the Spirit. Let anyone who has ears . . . A Black history reading of 1 Corinthians 10:1–13A retelling of the Black experience in the United States by Derrick McQueen Last February, during Black History Month, I read this 1 Corinthians text and felt as… Read more »
July 10, 2015
You can take the pastor out of the church, but you can’t take the Church out of the pastor. FlamingHaving your church burnt down by a white supremacist is persecution. Two people of the same sex getting married is not. by Derrick L. Weston There is a tone deafness in some segments of American… Read more »
July 8, 2015
Playing beyond the boundaries in hopes of finding God and inspiration Nine by Adam Walker Cleaveland Nine.Nine bodies.Nine bodies on the ground.Nine black bodies on the ground. It’s been three weeks since the devastating shooting at Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. In the piece below, the letters of the… Read more »
June 26, 2015
You can take the pastor out of the church, but you can’t take the Church out of the pastor. Open your heartsWhat I wanted to say after the #CharlestonShooting—a message to my white brothers and sisters in the church by Derrick L. Weston I miss preaching. I miss the preparation and the delivery. I… Read more »
June 22, 2015
“I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity.” —Oliver Wendell Holmes Ashes God is good even when the world is not—a response to the #CharlestonShooting. by Jodi Craiglow Jerusalem was in crisis. King Hezekiah… Read more »
June 22, 2015
Explaining the #CharlestonShooting to my children Don’t call me an ally: getting to work by Mihee Kim-Kort I didn’t come into an awareness of my racialized self until late college, and didn’t really engage the issues around it until seminary, and even then wrestled with whether there was a third way beyond the black-white… Read more »
