by Starlette Thomas | Oct 11, 2021 | Opinion|The Raceless Gospel Initiative
The calendar on my iPhone now has two holidays listed on the same day. Monday, Oct. 11 is both Columbus Day and Indigenous Peoples’ Day. I choose not to celebrate the former for his attempted genocide of the latter. I’m bursting awkward silence conversation bubbles...
by Starlette Thomas | Oct 6, 2021 | Opinion
Mayday! Mayday! Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp all went down on Monday. There was an hours-long outage across these social media platforms. No posting, no scrolling, no refreshing of screens. So, I took to Twitter to read all about it. Ironically, the outage...
by Starlette Thomas | Oct 4, 2021 | Opinion
I can’t preach to the choir due to COVID-19. But if I could, I would turn around and say to these musically inclined members, “Show some appreciation for clergy and for pastors specifically.” “It is hard to believe, to have faith right now,” I’d tell them. “So, save...
by Starlette Thomas | Sep 28, 2021 | Opinion
We are all living in isolation these days. Due to the ongoing pandemic and the delayed return to some sense of normalcy caused in part by the Delta variant, we are overextended. This has gone on for too long. We are all experiencing some form of anxiety, agitation and...
by Starlette Thomas | Sep 27, 2021 | Opinion
Hurdles continue to be placed in front of women who are called to preach. Some Christians argue she doesn’t have what it takes. Others say there are other things that she should be doing – mostly in the kitchen and the nursery. A ticking biological clock but no time...
