Robert P. Jones They refused to integrate The Baptist denominational history is not unique in American Christianity. Virtually all of the major white mainline Protestant denominations split over the issue of slavery. For example, Northern and Southern…
Brian McLaren Healing Our Divides: Why This Matters Thank you Brian McLaren and Red Letter Christians!https://www.redletterchristians.org/healing-our-divides-why-this-matters/
Kerry Connelly America is good. Americans are good. In his July 2019 newsletter to his followers, evangelical leader James Dobson described a visit to the southern border of the United States during what can only…
Robert Putnam A troubling similarity The United States in the 1870s, 1880s, and 1890s was startlingly similar to today. Inequality, political polarization, social dislocation, and cultural narcissism prevailed - all accompanied, as they are now,…
Susan K Smith “True Christians” Americans have never had a monolithic view of Jesus, nor have they had a monolithic understanding of what Christianity is. In fact, so-called liberals and conservatives are miles apart when…
Mark Feldmeir How can we talk about race without the defensiveness, reflexivity, and scapegoating? Baltimore, Ferguson, Charlottesville, Charleston. Trevon, Tamir, Sandra, Philando, and Freddie. Kaepernick, Serena, Barkley, and Lebron. White supremacy, white privilege, white fragility, and woke. “Hands up, don’t shoot.” “I can’t breathe.”…
Catherine Meeks White Surprise and More Recently my husband and I found ourselves as the only Black couple on a sea and land tour to Alaska and northern Canada. As retirees of the US government and…
Uncategorized “Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.” “We must put drug abuse on the run through stronger law enforcement,” Reagan said in the Rose Garden. It wasn’t drug abuse that was put on the run, of course,…
