Movies to End Mass Incarceration

Film is a powerful medium for bringing issues to light and inspiring change. As part of "Locked in Solidarity," the Christian Community Development Association's...

Back to the Bridge

Texts: Amos 5, Jonah 3.1-5, 10 and Mark 1.14-20 The first in a two part series inspired by Ava DuVernay’s film, Selma. Originally preached January 18,...

Knives Out

Today in much of the world pandemic-constrained New Year’s celebrations are winding down and folks are preparing to return to work on Monday, hoping...

Books for What’s Next in 2021

The Very Good Gospel: How Everything Wrong can be Made Right by Lisa Sharon Harper (2016), Be The Bridge: Pursuing God's Heart for Racial...

Healthcare Should Be a Right Not a Reward

January 27 is the day we like to say our collie, Skye, earned her “Lassie card.”  I was in the kitchen preparing our daughters’...

The High Road

The United States’ presidential election is one month from today and the road to the White House continues to get rougher. The ads are...

“The New Jim Crow” by Michelle Alexander & “Just Mercy” by Bryan Stevenson

The New Jim Crow:  Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (10th Anniversary Ed.), by Michelle Alexander, and Just Mercy:  A Story of Justice...

Book Review: “This is What I Know About Art” by Kimberly Drew

Kimberly Drew’s book, This is What I Know About Art, is a tiny book at 63 pages, and certainly does not reflect all that...

Monsters

Monsters September 18, 2020 Ruth Bader Ginsberg is dead And no one is coming to save us The generation that came and went Has failed so completely It’s not worth...

Love Part 2: Justice and Mercy

On May 25, the world watched in horror as video footage of George Floyd’s death circulated online. Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin pressed his...

Social Justice Resources