Six Reasons Why Evangelicals Don’t Believe in Climate Change
The epicenter of worldwide climate change denial is in the American Deep South among evangelical Republicans. There’s irony in this. Republicans appear to have abandoned their own history of leadership in the conservation movement in the US. The GOP is bringing up the rear in response to the supreme ecological crisis in history. Even more …
How One Church Found a Mission that Mattered
The electronic doorbell sounds next to the church Office Manager’s desk. She sighs in exasperation. It’s Friday. They always show up on Friday. Sunday’s worship bulletin hasn’t started to slide out of the copy machine. The Office Manager can see through the front door’s glass window a petite woman standing outside. She’s the third stranger …
A Tribute to Billy Graham
The first time I heard Billy Graham’s voice I was buried under bed covers, long after I should have been asleep, straining to hear through the earphone of my toy space radio. I had attended Sunday school for a couple of years in those days at the end of the 1950’s. My family didn’t belong …
A Christian Assessment of Saul Alinsky
Following Brett Kavanaugh’s rise to the Supreme Court, many Americans are frustrated with the struggle to build a better society and to keep America from sliding into rampant injustice and inequality. Saul Alinsky, the inventor of community organizing, possessed many tools to pressure elites and win positive change. Here’s a Christian-oriented view of his work.
Writing as Resistance
I’m just now becoming acquainted with Chris Hedges, who is a Presbyterian Minister and the son of a Presbyterian minister. More importantly, Chris is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist. He has spent the bulk of his career in war zones around the globe. More recently, he teaches in various prisons in New Jersey. I found …
Into the Far Country: The Spiritual Significance of Leaving Church
Is it Time to Explore the Spiritual Riches Outside the Church? This post is going to be like throwing the Lincoln Logs out on the floor and worrying about building something with them later. This topic has been gurgling around in my thoughts for several weeks. I’ve even started a folder into which I’ve stuffed …
The Grammar of Freedom: John A. Mackay’s, “Letter to the Presbyterians”
There was a time when the Church spoke to America. During the 1930’s, the New York Times printed the full text of sermons preached in the city’s large churches. Martin Luther King Jr. got ministers from an array of denominations to link arms and in so doing brought deep moral authority to the Civil Rights …
Facing our War on Blackness: What We Must Do Now
Book Review of Katie Walker Grimes: Christ Divided: Antiblackness as Corporate Vice I tell myself that I’ve traveled a long path looking for fair and peaceful relationships with people different from me. So has our country. Before the events of Charlottesville, Virginia in September 2017, I might have thought that racial attitudes have settled into a …