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Staged Reading of Madeleine L’Engle’s Poem: Catechumen
The poem, "Catechumen," by author Madeleine L'Engle makes a wonderful addition to the observation of Lent. "Catechumen" narrates a conversation between "The Wind" and...
Call to Worship: Based on The Sermon on the Mount
Use this link to download Call to Worship PDF. Sized so two copies may fit on a one sheet of 8 1/2 x 11...
Call to Worship: “We are loved, not because we first loved...
Use this link to download Call to Worship PDF. Sized so two copies may fit on a one sheet of 8 1/2 x 11...
Candlemas is Come at Last
I’ve been reading about Candlemas this past week: the celebration of Christ’s presentation in the Temple forty days after His birth. I’ve read the...
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Behind the Christian Nationalist View on Immigration
The second night of the Republican National Convention focused on the party’s No. 1 issue — immigration.
Donald Trump scuttled a bipartisan Senate bill on immigration and border...
Aligned
My father is Tennessee’s unofficial welcoming committee. A Virginia native who retired with my mother to her home state, he enjoys swapping stories with...
Saving ICWA and Native Tribes
In June 2023, the United States Supreme Court is expected to issue a ruling that could determine the constitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Act....
Split
At the start of each year in the United Kingdom, the monarch doles out “honors” to citizens who’ve contributed to the betterment of British society....
Sermon Remix
Love Part 1: God and Neighbor
On August 5th, Kristen and I celebrated our 20th wedding anniversary. Since we’re in the grip of a global pandemic, it wasn’t the celebration...
Peter’s Dream. Martin’s Dream. God’s Dream.
This is the text of the sermon I delivered on Sunday, August 25, 2013. I offer it here today (with slight modifications) in honor...
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Beyond Boundaries
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Our Mothering Father
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Jesus' Life and Martin's Death illustrated
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Jesus People
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Waiting Room
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Book Reviews
A Review and a Reckoning Part 1
After listening to Clint Smith speak in an interview about his book How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery...
A Review and a Reckoning Part 2
While planning my daughters’ homeschool history lessons I stumbled across Wheatlands Plantation about an hour away from where we’ve been living in Tennessee. Not...
Daughters of Rizpah: Working Through Trauma
Buttry, Sharon A. and Daniel L. Buttry. Daughters of Rizpah: Nonviolence and the Transformation of Trauma. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2020.
Sharon and Dan Buttry...
World of Meaning
This month marks the 40th anniversary of the death of Howard Thurman (April 10), an early twentieth century African-American theologian, poet, pastor, and activist...
Books for Reckoning with White Supremacy in the American Church
The Cross and the Lynching Tree, James H. Cone (2011)
The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism, Jemar Tisby...
