All tagged history
What do our churches believe? Obviously, I can’t speak for all churches across the country. However, I can speak to part of what my friend was asking. To do so means a little bit of history and a little bit of missiological theory—plus a good dose of theological imagination. Are you ready?
While we busy ourselves singing with children about this “wee little man,” we have missed a powerful ending the song never mentions.
Many of us are making history today, and it is also imperative that we celebrate and support our Black leaders. We must honor Black history by supporting and celebrating Black excellence today.
What sort of church structure describes Churches of Christ, Christian Churches, and other non-denominational congregations?
Until folk see and experience the countercultural power of true Christian community and begin to ask, “What does this mean?,” they will not be asking the next question, “What shall we do?”
A Grateful Haiku:
Gratitude unties
resentment’s tangle leaving
fresh eyes for God’s gifts.
Let it go. Think the best. Give prayerful time for people to explain, then believe them. Breathe deep and experience the freedom not to flesh out every detail.
During a time of re-imagination, these challenges can open new doors and help us see our communities in a new light.
Our ultimate powerlessness levels the human playing field yet serves to unite when we courageously join God’s movement, continually willing to dance the faithful steps of contemplation and action.
Is the voice of God always a word? Might it be found in a child’s exploration of a grandparent’s elderly, muscular hands? Is God’s voice in the soil they worked? Listen.
Black love has had to exist within the context of racial trauma. From the streets of daily life to corporate, academic institutions, religious spaces, and political platforms, Black people have had to live and manage their inner rage.
This week’s offering represents a concerted effort to facilitate agility in taking on others’ perspectives as the current crises continue.
Unless you’re just dead set against historical fiction, I’m quite confident you’ll find this book utterly engrossing. (Fiction)
I’m more inspired to think about we are going to do ourselves, rather than what circumstances are going to do to us.
I don’t know what your history classes were like in high school or college, but I assure you that this is a fascinating tale, which is all the more remarkable since you already know how it comes out. (Nonfiction)
How do we carry on when we do not know whether or not today is simply a preface to a harder tomorrow?
Is there something we are not experiencing now (online)? If so, what is “it”? Given that “it” comes with potential costs, how do we decide if and when “it” is worth it?
Anyone who knows the story of Northern Ireland already knows a great deal of what is going to happen, yet it reads like a well plotted murder mystery or historical fiction. (Nonfiction)
In these three graphic volumes you have the very personal recounting of the civil rights movement. (Nonfiction)
Ultimately, I think the book is about memory, language, and what Alex calls “common decencies.” (Fiction)
