“Our hope for creative living lies in our ability to reestablish the spiritual ends of our lives in personal character and social justice.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. I’ve been thinking about the question Diana posed last week – why is there so much talk about obedience? I was always taught an obedience that…
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Faithful Slaves and Fugitive Whites – How Do You Remember the Past?
Today is Lee-Jackson Day in Virginia. I find this whole ‘war in my backyard’ thing fascinating, but also kind of disturbing. I don’t know how to reconcile the fact that today is a day to honor Confederate generals, while Monday is to honor a civil rights leader. So, I did what any normal person would…
Freedom – It’s Not A Gift
What does it mean to live in a country, a world with people unlike us? When we celebrate our freedom today, are we doing the word justice? Are we doing people justice? And when we cloak our freedom in the garb of Christianese, are we doing damage?
True Womanhood – June Cleaver as Jesus
“The fundamental premise of feminism is that women need and can trust no other authority than our own personal truth.” Creating a culture of idolatry was probably not anyone’s goal, but I think in the desire to make their point, the True Woman movement has done so. They tell us the idol of June Cleaver…
Subverting Memorial Day
I’ve never heard a sermon on empire. Certainly never a sermon on America as empire. Genealogy rises to mythic proportions, and phrases, slogans, and chants become air that suffocates. It’s Memorial Day. We’re supposed to remember the people who have died for us. And I know it’s considered improper to talk about death and…
Choosing People Over Beliefs
I changed my profile picture yesterday. There was some personal backlash from conservative family members. A woman I used to go to church with, and haven’t talked to in years, posted a couple of times yesterday on my wall, explaining to me what the gospel really means, and who salvation is really for. People…
Know Our History, Know Our Sins
“Among other things, when we associate Jesus with America, even in the most remote ways, we legitimize the widespread global perception that the Christian faith can be judged on the basis of what America has done in the past or continues to do in the present.” – Greg Boyd, The Myth of a Christian Nation…