by Miguel A. De La Torre | Mar 5, 2025 | Opinion
The guardians of white privilege normalize and legitimize a way of thinking and being that enslaves minds while allegedly freeing bodies. If the mind can be colonized, then those who society is constructed to benefit don’t need to worry about resistance to oppression....
by Grace Ji-Sun Kim | Mar 4, 2025 | Opinion
Growing up in the church, I never saw a woman behind the pulpit. For much of my childhood, until I was a teenager, it never occurred to me that women could even serve in such a role. Even when I first encountered the idea, the concept felt distant, almost...
by Rebecca M. David Hensley | Mar 4, 2025 | Opinion
In 2005, Jim Wallis, founder and (then) editor of Sojourners magazine and self-identified evangelical, published God’s Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It. Arguing for a “consistent ethic of life,” Wallis chided the political and...
by Starlette Thomas | Mar 3, 2025 | Opinion
Before I was bullied by a female employer, Toni Morrison taught me about the ugliness of women who oppress other women. There were, unironically, two other women employees and they considered themselves sisters. And as the “Cinderella” story goes, they watched me...
by Angela Yarber | Mar 3, 2025 | Opinion
Over twenty years ago, I knelt before my congregation, surrounded by the massive paintings and liturgical dancers distinctive of an artist’s ordination, affirming a call to ministry that felt as undeniable as breath. Like many progressive clergy, I believed deeply in...
by Brien McChesney | Mar 3, 2025 | Opinion
You have heard it said: “As long as they come legally.” How can we expect anyone to “obey immigration laws and process” when the United States, while wagging its crooked finger, is not obeying the international laws regarding asylum it established and agreed to? Is...
