Alexia Salvatierra Dishes on “The Big Lie” and Peter Heltzel Sings Songs of Freedom
JAN 13, 2014 | BY: MARGOT STARBUCK -- As a Christian who, for decades, has loved Jesus and loved justice, it struck me as odd that Faith...
Now on the Red Carpet: David Montague
DEC 2, 2013 | BY: MARGOT STARBUCK -- A few weeks ago a friend was raving about the impact the Memphis Teacher Residency was having...
Peace of Mind and the Prophetic Pursuit of Peace and Justice
AUGUST 5, 2013 | BY: CRAIG M. WATTS -- I have to confess: I have conflicted feelings about peace of mind. Don’t get me wrong. I’m not...
Dr. Vincent Harding, MLK & The One’s We’ve Been Waiting For (with AUDIO)
May 7, 2013 | BY: JARROD MCKENNA -- Who are we building into? Who are we teaching what we’ve been taught? I ask this of us...
Stop celebrating Martin Luther King Jr.
BY: MATT RINDGE -- Last month America engaged in its annual ritual of misremembering Martin Luther King, Jr. Although Rev. Dr....
Do You Hear the People Sing? M.L. King & Les Misérables’ case for a Socialism of Grace
BY: JARROD MCKENNA -- Many know of Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”. Fewer know of Dr. King’s...
Nonviolence for White People
BY: JONATHAN WILSON-HARTGROVE -- The longer I live and pray the more convinced I am that white repentance–white conversion...
21st Century Freedom Ride
BY: JONATHAN WILSON-HARTGROVE -- Fifty years ago, when America’s Freedom Movement was....
Clarence Jordan Never Said, “Nothing can be done.”
Clarence Jordan and Millard Fuller -- Photo Courtesy of Fuller Center for Housing
This Sunday marks what would have been the 100th birthday of farmer and New Testament scholar Clarence Jordan (July 29, 1912...
Gracious Nonconformity
Source: The Naked Pastor
As followers of Jesus we are to be different from others. We are to be, as a biblically derived phrase puts it, “in the world but not of the world” (John 15:19; 17:14). Ou...