The Gospel of Donald Trump
The darkness that Trump — and we — have cultivated seems to settle between and within each one of us. The only “good news” worthy of the name is from the work of a living God, and we can never afford to forget that.
#TheDeclaration: Speaking the Truth with Love, Without Apology
#TheDeclaration should not have worked. It’s too long. It had too many drafters. But it did work, and it is working. Why? I believe it’s because the message is the anthem of our era.
Theological Declaration on Christian Faith & White Supremacy
We publicly declare that what we hold in common in this confession is threatened by the festering infection of Eurocentric white nationalism and white supremacy.
A Statement on The Nashville Statement
The word courage or “counter-cultural witness” is typically reserved for those willing to die themselves rather than a term for those using oppressed minority groups as a bullet shield for their own existential anxieties about losing political power in a changing world.
InterVarsity Offers the World a Gay Saint?
With God as his heartthrob, Coles’ celibacy is a variety of queer love. Queer enough to make both liberals and conservatives squirm.
Yesterday, Today, and Forever?
As they alight Charlottesville, Virginia
With their fury
We wonder what clothes did their ancestors wear
Under their bright white sheets?
Salvation for White People
It’s easy to point fingers at extremists carrying torches in Charlottesville. They need to be saved, we say, and we’re right. But we need to be saved too. And our silence gets in the way of our being saved.
Will America Pick Up Its Cross?
Today the colonizing spirit leads Christian conferences to flash all (or nearly all) white speaker lineups without a blush, promote white worship music as the gold Christian standard around the world, and build mega churches in the mold of mega malls and amusement parks that serve hundreds of thousands music and scripture disconnected from parishioners’ local contexts and needs.
Sound the Alarm: A Liturgy for Troubling Times
A call and response liturgy for the fighters of the good fight who feel constantly bombarded with the waves of a suffering world right now.
August 9th: A Day of Repentance?
What we did to Nagasaki and Hiroshima was wrong. What the Ferguson police did to Michael Brown was wrong. August 9th is a good day to repent and to turn from death to LIFE.