Monday, February 27, 2017

Wendell Griffen on White Christian Nationalism and Costly Grace in Era of Trump: Followers of a Palestinian Jew Whose Family Were Refugees

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Wendell Griffen, in his just-published Fierce Urgency of Prophetic Hope (Valley Forge: Judson Press, 2017):  White Christian nationa...

Trump's Clear Signal That Some Count and Others Don't: Another Wave of Bomb Threats at Jewish Centers Today, Another Cemetery Vandalized Yesterday

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NBC News confirms there has been another wave of bomb threats against Jewish Community Centers and schools across the country pic.twitter....

Notes on "Moonlight": The Price Men Pay for Showing Vulnerability — And the Higher Price Some Men Pay

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As it happens, Steve and I watched "Moonlight" Saturday evening, and yesterday, I put together a set of notes about the film...

"Sharing Our Lives as Theology, Part 4": A Theological Video Conversation Produced by Rachel Fitzgerald and Mark Shumway

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It's my privilege to share with you again today a video conversation between Brazilian theologian Ivone Gebara, educator and spiritua...
Saturday, February 25, 2017

Things Church Folks Say: Communicating the Opposite of Committing Church to Build Safe Space in a Hostile World

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Things I have actually heard church folks say — which communicate the opposite of committing themselves and their churches to creating a ...

The America White Christians Are Building with Trump, and Exodus of Churchgoers: When Jesus and Gospel Are Betrayed, Obligation to Walk Away

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Let me start with the statement that no one has asked me to explain why I find church — connecting myself to a church, going to a church...
Thursday, February 23, 2017

The Catholic Herald on Trump as a "Proper Christian" vs. Rev. Joel Tooley, Who Attended Trump's Florida Campaign Rally

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Tuesday, I read in the British Catholic paper The Catholic Herald  Father Alexander Lucie-Smith's proposal that, in reciting the...