Every church that has a white Jesus in its stained glass has...work to do. This is an explicit racialization of God. It's a statement of power, and it's about white Christian power.
02081 – White Jesus?
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02058 – The Church is…
The church is not a religious community of worshippers of Christ but is Christ himself who has taken form among people.
02030 – Good Theology Maintains Two Freedoms
Until I went to seminary, no one had taught me how to clean the lens of my awareness and perception. Studying the philosophy of Franciscan John Duns Scotus (1266–1308) for four years had a profound effect on me. Duns Scotus taught (admittedly in rarefied Latin) that...
01980 – Church: An Inviting Community
The church is not an institution forcing us to follow rules but a community inviting us to still our hunger and thirst at its table.
01950 – Church: Like a Swimming Pool
The church is like a swimming pool. Most of the noise comes from the shallow end.
01934 – A Dignified Nobility in Humankind
There is a dignified nobility in humankindWe know it when we see itNurse tenderly caring for your loved one in the hospice house as she travels toward the great beyondPolitician choosing integrity, knowing full well he won't be elected againPastor remaining true to...
01900 – Young People in the Church
If we lose a generation of young people in the church, it won't be because we didn't entertain them. It will be because we didn't dare them to do something meaningful with the Gospel in light of the world we live in.
01802 – Longing for Relationship
At the heart of each of us is a compelling hunger for ways to live and be in relationship that are genuine. Too often we choose ways that enslave rather than free us, and so it is with churches as well. What the world longs for are people and churches who have found...
01788 – Churches & Their Loves
Too many churches love their comfort more than their mission.
01786 – In the Heart of Jesus
No worst thing ever done in the name of Christianity, no vilest corruption of the Church, can destroy the eternal fact that the core of it is in the heart of Jesus. Branches innumerable may have to be lopped off and cast into the fire, yet the word I AM THE VINE...