Put Your Foot Down!

Before you get any ideas, this is not an endorsement to become oppositional or to rebel in any form.  This is not a call for you to throw your weight around or to raise your voice.  That would be just one interpretation of today’s post.  So, don’t print this out or make a sign f […]

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Racism in Multicultural Churches?

A recent post by Daniel Camacho asks tough questions and raises necessary questions about multicultural churches.  Proving that it is not enough to worship together or even to relate to persons of different cultures on a regular basis, Camacho points to research and recent publications that highlight that the supremacy of whiteness in leadership, structure […]

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Christ is [Risen]!

“Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say there is no resurrection of the dead?  If there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised; and if Christ has not been raised, then our proclamation has been in vain.” [I Corinthians 15.12-14, NRSV] […]

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A Preacher Talks About Race and the Obama Presidency

I read this interview on the Patheos website* and thought that you too will benefit from its insight and courageous truth. The Rev. Dr. Katharine Henderson, president of Auburn Theological Seminary, and the venerable Rev. Dr. James Forbes, the first African American pastor of the famed Riverside Church, sat down to have a one-on-one reflection […]

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A Leap of Faith

An extra day offers an additional opportunity to review various media outlets on the #oscarssowhite protests, Chris Rock’s opening monologue for the 88th annual Academy Awards, seemingly all things Donald Trump who has apparently never heard of white supremacy and yet another instance of suspected police misconduct, this time in Salt Lake City.  Daily reports make it […]

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