Saturday, June 3, 2023

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    Cracks in the Pavement

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    I turned on my car radio a week ago Tuesday morning, anxious to hear details about the grand jury decision in the Michael Brown...

    I’m Tired, Too

    Todd Thomason -
    I’m 39 years old.  I’m the father of five-year-old twins, a husband, and a pastor. I’m tired – exhausted, even – much of the...

    Maconomics

    Todd Thomason -
    News of the McDonald’s sample budget first broke three weeks ago in the shadows of the Trayvon Martin decision. Initially, the budget received a...

    Renewing Our Strength

    Todd Thomason -
    Hook me up a new revolution, ‘cause this one is a lie // We sat around laughing and watched the last one die.  –...
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    Heritage of Hate

    Kristen Thomason -
    The intense national debate over the removal of Confederate monuments often boils down to questions of intent and affect. What was the original intent...

    Remembering the Radical Roots of Mother’s Day

    Kristen Thomason -
    Before the flowers, before the jewelry, before the cards and candy Mothers’ Day was a day of activism. In 1858 Ann Marie Reeves Jarvis...

    “Food Bank” for Education

    Kristen Thomason -
    “Every child deserves the best opportunity to be their best self,” is the guiding principle behind Canada’s first “education bank” as envisioned by Theresa...

    Marking Time

    Kristen Thomason -
    Founded in 1971 as a non-profit center for contemporary art, New York City’s MoMA PS1 is the Museum of Modern Art’s exhibit space for...

    Sermon Remix

    Do We Get It?

    Todd Thomason -
    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...

    Abide These Three: Hope

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    Text: Lamentations 3:1-6, 14-24 (Todd is reading in this recording from the TANAK) and Revelation 21:1-7 The second sermon in the sermon series “Abide These...

    Prophetic Tasks: Telling the Truth in a Society That Lives in...

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    Hitting the Road

    Riding Off Into the Sunrise

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    Book Reviews

    A Review and a Reckoning Part 1

    Kristen Thomason -
    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

    Kristen Thomason -
    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

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    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

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    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

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    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...
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    Poetry

    Ice Storm

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    Dry Bones at New Year’s

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    The Tomb is Still Empty

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    Known

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