A Reformation Protest Against Christian Nationalism
October 31, 2020, is Reformation Day. On this day throughout Christendom followers of Christ Jesus all around the world are called upon to remember an historical event that rocked the Christian world and changed the course of western civilization. It was on...
The Foul and Unjust ‘Stamp’ of Approval on Voter Suppression
It was July 26, 1775 when the U.S. postal system was established by the Second Continental Congress, with Benjamin Franklin as its first postmaster general. It was Franklin who put in place the foundation for many aspects of today’s mail system. It was also an...
“On we go—“
Those are the three words that conclude Bill McKibben’s “swan song” (of sorts) to his colleagues at 350.org and his friends throughout the broader climate justice movement, “On we go…” Today is a date to be circled on this nation’s environmental calendar (if we had...
Confessing America’s Original Sin
“Last week, a black professor told me he always asks his white students if they have ever heard racism called a sin in the pulpits of their churches growing up. The answer is almost always no.” ~Jim Wallis Consider this to be a continuation, Part II of the previous...
Independence Day 2020: Ideals Espoused vs Realities Lived
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” [Opening lines of the Preamble to the Declaration of...
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