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    Category: Race, Gender, & Sexuality

    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?”

    June 3, 2020June 7, 2020 by Ugena Whitlock

    The Mystery of Forgiveness & Reconciliation, part 1

    Growing up, when I thought about forgiveness–which is ever present in a practicing Fundamentalist Christian’s life–I thought first about God so loving the world that he sent… Read more “The Mystery of Forgiveness & Reconciliation, part 1”

    December 6, 2019 by Ugena Whitlock

    “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!”

    October 25, 2019 by Ugena Whitlock

    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”

    June 29, 2019 by Ugena Whitlock

    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”

    June 19, 2019June 19, 2019 by Ugena Whitlock

    (Un)Holy Saturday: A Community Lament Psalm

    It is Holy Saturday, God, the day good Christians celebrate Jesus’s body lying in the tomb while his soul descended into hell, the Harrowing of Hell, they… Read more “(Un)Holy Saturday: A Community Lament Psalm”

    April 20, 2019May 3, 2019 by Ugena Whitlock

    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”

    April 8, 2019May 3, 2019 by Ugena Whitlock

    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”

    March 30, 2019May 3, 2019 by Ugena Whitlock
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