by Libby Carroll | Jun 15, 2022 | Opinion
The recently leaked Supreme Court draft opinion that would serve to overturn Roe v. Wade has concerning implications for people of good faith. This leak was apocryphal in many ways. Certainly, the leak exposed the widening chasm dividing public opinion in the...
by John D. Pierce | Jun 14, 2022 | Opinion
In my college years, I noticed a church sign promoting an upcoming sermon titled, “A Christian View of Time.” What caught my attention was use of the article “A” rather than “The.” The preacher had enough self-awareness and integrity to acknowledge that he didn’t have...
by Junia Joplin | Jun 14, 2022 | Opinion
Parker Palmer once said that “to be fully alive is to act.” “I understand action to be any way that we can co-create reality with other beings and the Spirit,” he continued. “Action, like a sacrament, is the visible form of an invisible spirit, an outward...
by Bert Montgomery | Jun 14, 2022 | Opinion
I do not believe it was a coincidence that Pentecost Sunday fell on June 5 this year – the first Sunday during Pride month. Sister Simone Campbell says the Holy Spirit is alive and well and out causing mischief, and I am convinced the overlapping of Pride and...
by Starlette Thomas | Jun 13, 2022 | Opinion
Before there was the “other,” there was the heathen. Christian believers have a long and troubled history of calling people names as a means of explaining their inhumane ways of bringing them to Jesus. Kathryn Gin Lum’s new book Heathen: Religion and Race in American...
by Kali Cawthon-Freels | Jun 13, 2022 | Opinion
This year has been an exciting one for me. Most notably, I published my first book, Reclamation: A Queer Pastor’s Guide to Finding Spiritual Growth in the Passages Used to Harm Us. Honestly, I’m still in disbelief that my words are out in the world, bound,...
