Excerpt from “He Called Me Sister: A True Story of Finding Humanity on Death Row”
I hadn’t even realized that, although we had visited in various combinations at random times, we had not all four been there together for a while. He ...
On Mother’s Day: Faith leaders call to end gun violence
Editor's Note: This press release first appeared on Religion News Service on May 2, 2023.
Over 550 faith leaders call for Mother’s Day to be de...
How Our Naivete Keeps Us From Doing Justice (and what to do about it)
For way too long, I went through life second-guessing people who told me about different types of mistreatment they experienced, witnessed, or heard a...
Excerpt from “More Than I Imagined: What a Black Man Discovered About the White Mother He Never Knew”
Excerpted from MORE THAN I IMAGINED © 2023 by John Blake. Published by Convergent, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC....
Democracy is Not a Spectator Sport!
Our nation has gone through a great deal since its founding. Particularly around the issue of racism. We started as a nation built on the backs of sla...
Introduction to Christianity & Critical Race Theory
Content taken from Christianity and Critical Race Theory | Baker Academic by Robert Chao Romero and Jeff M. Liou, ©2023. Used by permission of Baker A...
Why the US Senate Needs to Affirm Equal Rights for All Citizens
Editor’s Note: Previously published on RNS on April 27, 2023.
It is time to abolish the myth of ‘differently equal’ once and for all.
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INHERIT YOUR CALLING TO JUSTICE
I held my fortieth birthday party at the Stonewall Inn in New York City. Yes, the same Stonewall Inn where in 1969 a three-day riot—led by transgender...
Opening the Door to Women’s Ordination
Editor's Note: Published on April 29, 2023 on WomensOrdination.org blog, The Table.
Sitting behind the cantor podium in a candlelit chapel ado...
What Does It Really Mean to Be Pro-Life?
Editor's Note: Originally published on Stefan Weathers' blog on April 6, 2023.
With Women's History Month ending last week and this week being...