I ran across this paper I wrote for a Religious Liberty class at McAfee School of Theology, Mercer University. I didn’t think it was half bad, so… Read more “Religious Liberty in the U.S. and cat pictures”
Category: Race, Gender, Sexuality, & Religion
White People, What Are We Thinking?
It’s time for white people to check our thinking. Right now. What are we thinking? I don’t mean, as in, What are we THINKING?? No, I mean,… Read more “White People, What Are We Thinking?”
“White Savior Barbie,” Not me!
I really love my seminary, the McAfee School of Theology, Mercer University. Faculty and staff there are committed to issues of justice and spiritual growth. It is… Read more ““White Savior Barbie,” Not me!”
My White Privilege: An Unexpected But Unsurprising Glimpse
This week I had to check my whiteness two times, first at the ONA Coalition National Gathering and then at the UCC General Synod. The lesson was… Read more “My White Privilege: An Unexpected But Unsurprising Glimpse”
Race, Religion, and the Lost Cause: Observation from the National ONA Gathering
Today is June 19th, Juneteenth, the day in 1865 when news of Lincoln’s signing of the Emancipation Proclamation two years earlier finally reached enslaved persons in Texas.… Read more “Race, Religion, and the Lost Cause: Observation from the National ONA Gathering”
Remembering Sri Lanka on Earth Day 2019: A Lament Psalm
Update: CBS News confirmed that an Islamist extremist group claims responsibility as retaliation for the NZ Christchurch bombing. Seems ISIS and the locals are vying for top… Read more “Remembering Sri Lanka on Earth Day 2019: A Lament Psalm”
Louisiana Black Church Fires: A Psalm of Community Lament
Holy God, we must speak the names. St. Mary Baptist. Greater Union Baptist. Mount Pleasant Baptist. Louisiana smolders. In the names and the smoke our sin is… Read more “Louisiana Black Church Fires: A Psalm of Community Lament”
Missionary Position: The UMC, Sexuality, and the Global Church
First, I need to acknowledge my white privilege and citizenship in a colonizer nation. Additionally, I am a U.S. Christian in a missionary culture, which has contributed… Read more “Missionary Position: The UMC, Sexuality, and the Global Church”
Till Death?: The Curiously Ethical Question of Intentional Monogamy
This week’s post is an updating of a one that began as a paper I presented at the 2017 South Eastern Women’s Studies (SEWSA) Conference called Intentional Monogamy:… Read more “Till Death?: The Curiously Ethical Question of Intentional Monogamy”
The Choice to Live Passionately
My Spiritual Formation this week is from What Matters Most: Ten Lessons in Living Passionately from the Song of Solomon by Renita Weems. She takes takes the… Read more “The Choice to Live Passionately”
Just Keep Swimming 