Tag: Justice
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The (Criminal) Body of Christ
When human beings are reduced to criminals, it is time for the church to become criminal as well.
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Trading Optimism For Struggle
Ta-Nehisi Coates is more Christian about hope than are many American Christians.
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A Sermon: Take Up Your Lynching Tree and Follow Me.
A lightly edited version of yesterday’s sermon from Mark 8:27-9:1 at New Community. Our passage begins: “Jesus & his disciples went on to the villages around Caesarea Philippi.” This geographical context is important. Mark wants us to remember that Jesus is first recognized as Messiah near Caesarea Philippi, that he Jesus first predicts his execution near Caesarea…
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“…a black man in the White House and nearly one million black men and women in the Big House.”
Most Americans see inequality – and the racial habits that give it life – as aberrations, ways we fail to live up to the idea of America. But we’re wrong. Inequality and racial habits are part of the American Idea. They are not symptoms of bad, racist people who fail to live up to pristine…
David W. Swanson 