Resources
Call to Worship: Remembering Those Who Served
RememberingDownload
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 for Epiphany
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...
Ministry Garden Part 2: How to Establish and Maintain Church Ministries
My vernal detector is still set on “Virginia” and, despite four years in Canada, when the calendar flips to April, I am ready for...
Baptist News Global
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....
Origin Story
An Alabama court’s recent decision deeming frozen embryos “extrauterine children” resulted in the shutdown of several prominent IVF clinics. While many conservative Christians were pleased...
Truth and Healing
One of modern television’s most beloved series came to a conclusion Sept. 27 when a group of Native American teenagers, once determined to leave the...
Sermon Remix
Do We Get It?
Texts: Nehemiah 2.1-5, 13-18 and Philippians 2.1-13
This sermon originally preached on September 11, 2011
In the collective American psyche, September 11 is one of...
Hitting the Road
A version of this sermon was preached on March 20, 2016 (Palm Sunday) at the First Baptist Church of Hyattsville. The Scripture readings were Psalm...
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...