Latest from ESAWomen Behind the Wall: Finding Light in DarknessOctober 17, 2019Episode 4: Finding Light in Darkness The Women Behind the Wall podcast highlights female voices from the Holy Land, and is hosted and produced solely by women who live and work in Jerusalem. The podcast seeks to amplify minority voices and perspectives, especially women's experiences in the private sphere as…...Read more...I Prefer BelongingOctober 16, 2019In the debate about queer sexuality in the church, queer people often feel as if our existence is denied when others talk as if there are no real gay Christians, or when homosexuality is dismissed as something like a mental illness or sinful mistake. By John Betten What's the difference…...Read more...A Reflection on Incarceration: I Am Not ForgottenOctober 15, 2019By Harold Dean Trulear You tell believers to remember us in prison, but it is not clear to me that your church really does…we are useful objects of outreach and service, a duty to be checked off the list. Over the years I have devoted a significant quantity of writing…...Read more...Talking With White Folks About Race: Challenging Historical Myths and DistortionsOctober 14, 2019By Drick Boyd Every October, the United States observes Columbus Day. Some schools and businesses close, as well as federal agencies like the Postal Service. While many Italian-American communities use the day to celebrate Italian heritage, others, sensitive to the history of disease, destruction and attempted genocide against Native Americans,…...Read more...Ida B. Wells and 21st-Century White SupremacyOctober 10, 2019By Catherine Meeks and Nibs Stroupe Why Ida B. Wells? Because she did the work no one else would do. She kept showing up where she wasn't wanted. She worked with people who would work with her. She worked with people she didn't agree with and with whom she fought…...Read more...Left Behind: How End Times Heresies Undermine Evangelical Action on ClimateOctober 9, 2019By Don Golden Climate Week kicked off in New York City September 23-29 as a matter of global urgency. Organized in collaboration with the United Nations, the week is meant to showcase climate initiatives and to discuss what more can be done to reduce the risks associated with climate change,…...Read more...When Faith, Justice, and Race CollideOctober 8, 2019Why the Amber Guyger sentencing caused an uproar among people of faith By Rev. Lori G. Baynard The oracle which Habakkuk the prophet saw. How long, Oh Lord will I call for help, and you will not hear? I cry out to you, Violence! Yet you do not save. Why…...Read more...A Christian Response to IntersexOctober 7, 2019What does it mean to be born with an intersex condition? What does it mean to have a transgender experience? How does being an intersex person or a person with a transgender experience impact everyday life in general, and specifically within the faith community? How have individuals navigated visibility, disclosure,…...Read more...Women Behind the Wall: Cultural Expectations of a Young Woman Under the OccupationOctober 3, 2019Episode 3: Cultural Expectations of a Young Woman Under the Occupation The Women Behind the Wall podcast highlights female voices from the Holy Land, and is hosted and produced solely by women who live and work in Jerusalem. The podcast seeks to amplify minority voices and perspectives, especially women's experiences…...Read more...
