Becoming Reparative Communities
By Terence Lester, PhD
(Editor’s note: This is the final piece of our 4-part series on economic injustice. You can find Part 1 here, Part 2 here, and Part 3 here. In this final piece, Dr.
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By Terence Lester, PhD
(Editor’s note: This is the final piece of our 4-part series on economic injustice. You can find Part 1 here, Part 2 here, and Part 3 here. In this final piece, Dr.
By John Seel, Ph.D
In the United States, Black men are far more likely to be hassled by law enforcement during routine traffic stops. It is also likely, in a conversation about this fact, that a white male will not appreciate the degree to which his privilege is
By C.S. Lewis
It comes the very moment you wake up each morning. All your wishes and hopes for the day
By Rozella Haydée White
In April of 2016, I found myself at a crossroads. I was working for my denomination at the national headquarters, one year after Dylann Roof murdered nine Black people at Mother Emmanuel AME in Charleston, South Carolina.
By Melanie Springer Mock
Like many people, my understanding of addiction has been informed primarily by mass media. I’m an inveterate watcher of 20/20 and the reality program Intervention; I am a consumer of memoirs and movies about those who
By Kristyn Komarnicki
Working for peace and understanding across deep difference
For the second year in a row, I was invited to speak to a group of international professors and researchers as part of the Dialogue Institute of Temple University’s Study of the U.S.
For all who have entered into God’s rest have rested from their labors, just as God did after creating the world.
By Lindsey and Sarah
Amid significant discussions about how churches relate to LGBT people, many people wonder whether churches that teach traditional sexual ethics can love LGBT people well. Part of the question relates to how people understand
By Kristyn Komarnicki
It is for freedom that Christ has set us free! (Galatians 5:1) Jesus paid the price so that we can be free, and for this reason, we can approach him with freedom, confidence, and joy.
By Beth Foster
The trees around the slaughterhouse are filled with a fatal lullaby because the mockingbirds have learned this funeral dirge of the young.
Peep. Peep. Peep.
That’s what haunts me most—even more than the puddles of blood and the truck brimming with the “waste” parts of bodies.
By Leslie Michele
A zealous, albeit flawed, examination of liturgy in contemporary churches.
In his book Ever Ancient, Ever New, Winfield Bevins makes a case for the transformative power of the ancient rituals engaged in by Christians throughout the centuries.
By Eugene H. Peterson
If you don’t take a Sabbath, something is wrong. You’re doing too much, you’re being too much in charge.
By Dr. Ron Sider
The distribution of income and wealth is more unequal today than at any time since 1928—just before the Great Depression.
The richest 1% of Americans own more wealth than the bottom 90%.
By Matthew Soerens
In 2006, as the U.S. Senate debated a comprehensive immigration reform bill and immigrants went to the streets in massive marches, it was difficult to find a book with a distinctly evangelical perspective on the topic of immigration.
By Benjamin Corey
As I logged onto Facebook on July 4th, I saw the predictable and obligatory independence posts clogging my news feed. Offensive images of the American flag with scripture scrawled about, countless posts about how “great” we
By Adriel Rose
There’s something about poetry that is particularly grounding for me. Poetry stops time in unusual ways, quieting my chaotic mind enough to take in every word. The pictures painted in each stanza form so clearly in my imagination that I find myself lost in the author’s world.
By John T. Booth
For prison inmates, health care comes slowly and unpredictably
“You will get the health care you need, but not right away. They will delay your care by downplaying your symptoms.