Praying for DREAMers
Will you join with my family and countless others across the nation who are committing to pray for DREAMers?
An Altar Call to Support the Captives on Manus
This is what the men on Manus need, the church to live into our baptism. Forget the politics or right or left – we need the politics of grace that is our baptism.
#NFLKneeldown: Leroy Barber on Fasting from Football
NFL Kneeldown was my attempt, as a football fan, to voice my solidarity with the message that Colin Kaepernick was communicating: the lives of black people and people of color are not honored fully in this country.
Prayer, Posture, and the Politics of Patriotism: Sunday School Edition
There is no one right way to praise, pray, or petition God. So long as our hearts are in the right place, our posture should reinforce and reflect our attitude
Why I Took My Family to Face White Supremacists
The making of peace requires at least as much strategy and commitment as the making of war.
Charlottesville Call to Conscience
Opposing white supremacy is not a partisan issue. All people of faith and conscience must commit to the deep work of justice.
#Faith4Healthcare: On Being One with the Vulnerable
My arrest was a liturgical act, an expression of worship and covenantal solidarity with Christ and his vulnerable ones.
BREAKING: Christians Unite In Direct Action to Oppose the ‘Better Care Reconciliation Act’
Through a series of actions, clergy and moral activists will speak out — and risk arrest through civil disobedience — to demonstrate moral dissent over the health bill under consideration in the Senate.
Hate Crime or Not, We Belong to Each Other
It is not enough for us to remember the sacred humanity within each person — we must actively behave in a way that shows it.
Starvin’ for Justice: Abolishing the Death Penalty through Moral Witness
Support for state-sanctioned executions are at an all-time low, thanks in large part to the public education and witness of committed abolitionists.