Free Post Messages Faith and Suffering Why do we suffer? Why do bad things happen? And, if our God is a loving and all-powerful God, why does God allow such suffering? How does Jesus teach us to think about suffering?
Free Post Podcasts King Cotton Strikes Back: The Ruin of Reconstruction “When things like police killings come to light now or injustices and mass incarcerations, for African Americans, it is a story they have known well and for many white folks
Free Post Messages Faith & All That Bad Stuff in the Bible What kind of God sanctions genocide, the suppression of women, and all the other bad stuff in the Bible? If that's what God is like, why would a rational person trust God?
Free Post Newsletter "There's a light at the end of the tunnel...." So much of our national life has become bitter incivility. Yet surrounding us is ample cause for both celebration and optimism.
Free Post Reconciliation The Dance of Reconciliation: "If Your Brother Sins Against You...." Only when we speak truth to each other may we be assured that Jesus is present in our dance.
Free Post Reconciliation The Dance of Reconciliation: "When Your Brother Has Something Against You...." In the dance of reconciliation, things never go back to the way they were before but always drive forward to a more vital, healthier relationship.
Free Post Podcasts Reconstruction: America's First Civil Rights Movement “Reconstruction was a period of tremendous change. You can imagine, finally, people had access to a kind of freedom that they had been wanting for generations during slavery.” - Dr.
Free Post Messages Faith, American Exceptionalism, and Violence We American are especially vulnerable to confusing our role with the Messiah's, seeing it as our role to save the world, seeing it as our role to make the world turn out right.
Free Post Newsletter Pressing towards "full and exact and equal justice" I feel optimistic that we will emerge from this pandemic and political travail this year, changed for the better. We are a resilient people.
Free Post Learn Why Colorblindness is Not the Standard Our culture - in South, North, East, and West - taught us that good persons are colorblind concerning race. But the standard is much higher.
Free Post Pray The Art of Prayer Dad was a prayer artist. As the food cooled off, Dad warmed up. But it was the prayers we never heard that made the difference.
Free Post Podcasts Civil War and the Liberation of the Enslaved “Some people have argued that Lincoln was dragged kicking and screaming to the point of issuing the Emancipation Proclamation; that he never really wanted to do it and that it
Free Post Messages Faith and Politics It is impossible for people of faith to be faithful by separating their faith from their politics.
Free Post Newsletter "Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just" In these days of internal strife, it feels right to recommit ourselves to our highest ideals.
Free Post Turn Let Freedom Ring! Let's stand firm in defending a theological understanding of freedom against the modern distortion that empties it of its depth.
