Lighting the Advent Wreath: Love Litany
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...
Making Peace
A version of this sermon was preached at the First Baptist Church of Hyattsville on Sunday, December 6, 2015. The Scripture texts were Malachi 3.1-4 and Luke...
Christian Hissstory
I was wrapping up my work-from-home day a few weeks ago when my three-year-old daughters wandered into the bedroom and piled onto the loveseat...
Sandy Hook Revisited
It’s hard to believe that three years have passed since Adam Lanza gunned down 20 elementary school children, 6 of their teachers, and his...
Justice
WHAM!
When I started dating Todd Thomason, I had no idea I was signing up for a 30-year cultural exchange program. While I was a...
Coronations
There were two coronations the weekend of May 6th: One in England and one in Shondaland. For those who don’t know, England is a...
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...
Advent Call to Worship
Lighting the Advent Wreath: Love Litany
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...
Lighting the Advent Wreath: Peace Litany
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...
Advent Call to Worship
Lighting the Advent Wreath: Love Litany
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...
Lighting the Advent Wreath: Peace Litany
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...
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...