It’s been a week since the Club Q shooting. Let’s not move on.
Note: This piece originally appeared in Religion News Service.
The LGBTQ community continues to bear a disproportionate amount of hateful gun violenc...
On Thanksgiving: An Honest Home in the Uncomfortable ‘Both’
But this little plot of land, where my son swings from oak branches beside the bayou . . . where we make mashed potatoes for three instead of twenty-three . . . where I call home . . . is much more than just a settler's trophy. We live in Caddo territory, or so it was before the Treaty of Cession of 1835.
Let’s Uproot the Bias that Holds Us Back
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A White Person’s Guide to Racial Justice and Reconciliation
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The silence of the witnesses hurt more than the shouted bigotry
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This School Year We Should Get Curious rather than Punitive When it Comes to Kids, All Kids
Scripture tells the story of a 12-year-old Jesus who slipped off without the courtesy of a quick word to Mother Mary or Stepfather Joseph about where ...
I Don’t Know Justice
I don’t know Justice!
And I have not met Peace.
Well, I was told that I met her.
I was told that Peace has been around here,
but they must be conf...
8 over 80: At 92, John Perkins still mobilizes Christian communities
At 8 a.m. on Tuesdays in July, as usual, John Perkins was participating in his weekly Zoom Bible study. Officially the leader and the attraction for t...
H.R. 40 (REPARATIONS NOW)
"While it might be convenient to assume that we can address the current divisive racial and political climate in our nation through race neutral means...
Beyoncé invites church girls to celebrate their freedom
“Lord, place me … I want to be centered in thy will.” Mixed with the sounds of the iconic pioneer of New Orleans bounce music, DJ Jimi, these words, w...