Listening to the "Disreputables"
By John Backman We all cherish the picture of Jesus eating with the "disreputables"—the tax collectors and prostitutes and other sinners. But what do we do when the offensive offend us? Our first night...
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The Struggle with Tokenism by Mihee Kim-Kort "Tokenism does not change stereotypes of social systems but works to preserve them, since it dulls the revolutionary impulse." Mary Daly, radical feminist philosopher and theologian I...
One Month After Charlottesville: A Letter to My White Suburban Christian Brothers and Sisters
By Benjamin Capps Dear white, suburban, Christian brothers and sisters, Like many of you, on the evening of Saturday August 12th, my eyes were glued to the unfolding events scrolling across the screen of...
What We All Get Wrong About Racism
By Leslie Leyland Fields We are all racist in some ways. We all make judgments based on externalities. We all categorize—it is the mind's natural state to sort and order and try to contain...
The Dangers of White Evangelical Nostalgia
By Todd Lake What is it about white evangelicals that makes us long for an earlier Golden Age? The problem is not new. Over two millennia ago, the author of Ecclesiastes had to admonish,...
When All You Can Do Is Laugh
By Drew Jackson After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision, "Do not be afraid, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great." But Abram...
Weep with Me
by Zakiya Jackson Who will weep with me I can feel the ancestors hoping praying dripping with blood fervor anticipation Who will weep with me as the recoil of mixed up emotions identities spoken...
Learn by Making Mistakes
by Kathy Khang How did you learn to tie your shoes? To drive? To style your hair? To write your name in cursive? To read? To swim? To ride a bike? Unless you are...
This Is My Country
by Kathy Khang The older man walks up to the closed register next to me and looks at the wretched KFC/Pizza Hut menu at the travel oasis/rest stop near Elkhart, IN. He asks about...
Evangelical—When a Good Word Goes Bad
by Carolyn Custis James Anyone who has a finger on the pulse of American evangelicalism has to be wondering if the patient will survive. During the current presidential election cycle, American evangelicalism has suffered...
