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From Ferguson To Kiev: Dr. Bernice King to Join National Faith Leaders to Interrogate US Militarism at Home & Abroad

March 31, 2022

Church Life, Global, Peace & Nonviolence, Politics, Race

Returning to the site and sound of MLK’s legendary ‘Beyond Vietnam’ speech to examine the enduring evils of racism, materialism, and militarism 55 years later NEW YORK – LIVE FREE USA joins The Quincy Instit...

During My First Year in Seminary

Mark Beckwith

March 22, 2022

Books, Peace & Nonviolence, Practical Justice

Taking, as Jesus did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it. That takes a lot of work – and the work is letting go in order to see what is. Letting go of the expectation that the world be free of darkness. Letting go of our indignation that the darkness exists. The darkness is there; we have to live in it, deal with it, and see the light in the midst of darkness.

An Open Letter to His Holiness Kirill from US Christian Leaders

RLC Editor

March 14, 2022

Church Life, Global, Immigration & Refugees, Peace & Nonviolence

“In this moment, as the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, you have the holy opportunity to play an historic role in helping to bring a cessation of senseless violence and a restoration of peace,” the US Christian leaders wrote in their letter. “We pray you will do so, and our prayers will accompany you.”

Radical Forgiveness and Ableism in the Church

Liz Daye

February 25, 2022

Church Life, Family and Parenting, Practical Justice

While the disability experience is not a monolith, by & large caregivers and disabled people are familiar with the feeling of being excluded from environments that seemingly welcome their presence but not their belonging. And I have to wonder if our churches are not fully FOR the least among them first, then who are they really for?

Walk With Me

Common Hymnal

February 10, 2022

Art, Church Life, Politics, Race

Rev Otis Moss III, founder of Unashamed Media Group, asked Common Hymnal to contribute music for "Otis' Dream," the Get Out The Vote film he wrote and produced for the 2020 election. More specifically, he asked them to produce a new arrangement of the old spiritual 'I Want Jesus To Walk With Me' for the final credits.

Love Breaks Forth

Traci Blackmon

January 28, 2022

General, Peace & Nonviolence, Politics

Let us celebrate Epiphany not made bitter, but better, by the challenge of so many who lost their way to love.

Why Do You Say You Love Jesus?

Morf Morford

September 20, 2021

General, Practical Justice, Theology

What I really want to know is why this “love” so often doesn't look like love; why this “faith” doesn’t look like faith. Would they say, "It's not about what love looks like, it's about what I believe"?

Speak Love, Not War

Robyn Dyba

August 4, 2021

Church Life, Peace & Nonviolence, Theology

Why is it that our modern church culture identifies faith with the language of pain, aggression, and domination more so than with nurturing peace and equality?

Choosing Love at Belonging’s Expense and Wondering What Now

Jenna Wysong Filbrun

March 15, 2021

Church Life, Politics, Practical Justice

It is awfully convenient to believe the right thing to do is whatever you want, at anyone else’s expense. It felt like the lives of the sick and vulnerable didn’t matter. Then George Floyd was murdered.

Love is the Most Important Command

Vanessa Stricker

December 18, 2020

General, Practical Justice, Theology

Maybe we fear that love is a zero-sum game, that if we give of ourselves there might not be anything left for us. But love is not about self-abnegation.