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?
Siding with Jesus & Justice
White Evangelicalism is losing its credibility. It's time to adopt the new label of "Red Letter Christian" in order to define yourself and stand on the side of Jesus and justice.
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.
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.
Red Letter Christians v. Donald Trump’s Evangelicals
How Donald Trump and white evangelicals are leading an all-out attack on the Gospel and the biblical message of liberating salvation.
#BlackClergyUprising: A ‘Call to Action’ Against the ACA Repeal & Trump Budget
If there was a time for Black clergy to march, it was now.
Repentance When Taking Bread & Wine
There have been times when, in the face of racism and homophobia, I remained silent and did nothing – and that silence was sin.
‘I’m Not Full American, Because I’m Not White’
I will recommit myself to fighting against every effort, overt or covert, to make any precious child of God feel less American than any other.
How This Pastor Changed His Stance on the Death Penalty
Evangelicals support the death penalty because it’s biblical, or so I thought.