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...
Graffiti
Grafitti
June 2020. Richmond, Virginia.
My friend studies graffiti
From Roman ruins
I once heard her speak on the things
We learn from words arrested by time
When ash rained...
Active and Ongoing
Here in Canada, yesterday was Monday – a Monday like any other Monday with the exception that the elementary school teachers in Toronto were...
Prophetic Tasks: Grieving in a Society That Practices Denial
This sermon (or a reasonable facsimile) was preached on Sunday, October 20, 2019 at Kingsway Baptist Church. The texts are Lamentations 1:1-6; 3:19-26 and Matthew 5:1-10.
Walter Bruegemann...
