Showing posts with label Wendell Griffen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wendell Griffen. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 16, 2020

Valuable Recent Commentary about Link Between White Supremacy and White Christianity in the U.S.

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I'm sorry to have been away for so long. As I noted in a posting some weeks back, we have been dealing with health challenges, and we...
Monday, July 13, 2020

News Commentary in Time of Plague: 43 Pages of Obituaries in Houston Today (and the Role Many US Christians Are Playing in the Pandemic)

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OUR LOCAL PAPER: The Houston Chronicle obituary section was 43 pages today. Let that sink in. — Rogelio Garcia Lawyer (@LawyerRogelio...
Thursday, June 25, 2020

"Public Health Train Wreck in Slow Motion" in US: Where's the Leadership? Where Are the Pro-Life White Christians Who Set This in Motion?

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Teresa Hanafin in today's " Fast Forward " from Boston Globe :  [A]s Dr. David Blumenthal, president of The Commonweal...
Sunday, May 31, 2020

Reaping the Whirlwind: America Now Confronts the Reality of Its 2016 Election

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People Can Only Bear So Much Injustice Before Lashing Out via @thenation https://t.co/qevqJ0pvk4 — 𝕎𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕒𝕞 𝔻. 𝕃𝕚𝕟𝕕𝕤𝕖𝕪 🌈 ...
Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Wendell Griffen: "Chickens of Racism, Materialism and Militarism Have Come Home to Roost in the Convergence of Trump’s Presidency and the COVID-19 Pandemic"

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  I'd like to point readers to a valuable essay my friend Wendell Griffen published two days ago in  Baptist News Global . It's...
Tuesday, March 24, 2020

Rev. Wendell Griffen on Our Choice for This Season of Pandemic

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And for a different (and in my view, authentically pro-life) voice from an Arkansas church, after I just shared dismal news about a chur...
Tuesday, February 18, 2020

Notes on Gerardo Marti's American Blindspot: Race, Class, Religion, and the Trump Presidency

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I recently read Gerardo Marti's American Blindspot: Race, Class, Religion, and the Trump Presidency  (London: Rowman & Little...
Friday, December 27, 2019

"The Immigrant Children…Cannot Be Erased by Shopping Excursions": An Advent Sermon by Wendell Griffen

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I'm happy to be able to share with readers a sermon I heard my friend Reverend Wendell Griffen deliver this past Sunday at New Mi...
Monday, November 11, 2019

"You Served Your Tour with Valor": Honoring Veterans of the African-American Struggle for Justice and Dignity

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Today is the U.S. Veterans' Day holiday, and as tributes to this or that family member who has been in the military pop up in my...
Tuesday, September 3, 2019

Wendell Griffen, "Standing with Elaine"

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With the permission of my friend Judge (and Reverend) Wendell Griffen, I'd like to share with you a statement he has made recently o...
Sunday, February 11, 2018

Two More Resources re: Non-LGBTQ-Affirming Policy of Cooperative Baptist Fellowship and Shane Claiborne's Refusal, as a "Progressive Evangelical," to Affirm Queer Folks Unambiguously

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When a commitment to a doctrine overshadows the ability to see other people’s humanity, one has conceded their own humanity for ideology...