by Starlette Thomas | Aug 16, 2021 | Opinion, The Raceless Gospel Initiative
For all of the faith that its leaders claim to espouse, the church has its doubts. The majority of its members do not believe women — no matter what she is talking about. We believe that God speaks to us, that God will heal us and deliver us but cannot believe that...
by Starlette Thomas | Aug 9, 2021 | Opinion
“It’s just the way of the world.” “It is what it is.” Take or leave it, this explains the eschatology I was raised with. We were “so heavenly minded” that we were “no earthly good.” We focused on saving ourselves and to hell with the rest of the world quite literally....
by Jack Moline | Jul 20, 2021 | Opinion
I was chatting with a new friend of my generation about the changing circumstances in which we live. I am a rabbi, though out of the congregational setting after more than 35 years, and he is a pediatrician. Each of us acknowledged that certain practices that were...
by Jacob Brenton | Oct 14, 2020 | Opinion
It happened again. This time, tears welled in my eyes as I turned up the volume to watch a video of a brave survivor courageously sharing her story of being sexually assaulted by a Baptist pastor from my college town. Anger filled me as I remembered how I had trusted...
by Hanna Mudge | Sep 17, 2020 | Opinion
It’s easy to pay lip service to equality, but putting beliefs into practice is another matter. Along with many friends, I have experience of church contexts where women are supposedly equal and valued, yet curiously invisible unless they’re fulfilling certain roles or...
