During my junior year of high school, I couldn’t bring myself to say the Pledge of Allegiance. I had been following the footnotes on African American history for awhile now… Read more “Christian discipleship: Pledging allegiance in America”
Surprise is not a valid response to racism in America
Recently, I was talking to a man named Garrett, who I think identifies as a Christian. He took issue with a recent article published by Relevant magazine that posed… Read more “Surprise is not a valid response to racism in America”
Declining the invitation to hate
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a pastor, civil rights leader and martyr, said this in 1958, “A fifth point concerning nonviolent resistance is that it avoids not… Read more “Declining the invitation to hate”
Disturbing History
American slavery is being discussed again. But, not because African Americans brought it up. It is in the news due to debates around the removal of Confederate… Read more “Disturbing History”
Sincere Love
“The more genuine and the deeper our community becomes, the more will everything else between us recede, the more clearly and purely will Jesus Christ and his… Read more “Sincere Love”
Bodywork
In 1939, Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote in Life Together, “Christian brotherhood is not an ideal which we must realize; it is rather a reality created by God in… Read more “Bodywork”
After Charlottesville: Doing our hate homework
God is love and we, as Christians, are known by it (First John 4.16). It is God’s character and our expected response for we speak the truth… Read more “After Charlottesville: Doing our hate homework”
