Culture
What’s going on, who we are, and what the big deal is.
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Living into God’s Time
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4 min read
One Book One Diocese Lenten Study The Episcopal Diocese of Indianapolis is reading the same book together for Lent. Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God by Kelly Brown Douglas. We’re gathering in local communities to discuss the book or reading independently. As part of my own discipline of reading the book and preparing for discussion,…
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The Imperfect Path
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8 min read
The challenge of faith is that we don’t get to say who are “real Christians”.
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Believing in the Justice of God
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6 min read
In the resurrection, God reveals the power isn’t in condemnation and oppression, but in restoring life and building the blessed community.
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The Freedom of God
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5 min read
In the fourth chapter of Stand Your Ground, Douglas explores the nature of God as freedom revealed in the exodus and manifest in the gospel.
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Perpetual War
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8 min read
At the heart of Manifest Destiny is a tragic truth: it creates perpetual war on non-whiteness.
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The crime of being born guilty
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3 min read
In the second chapter of “Stand Your Ground” Kelly Brown Douglas explores the question “Why are black murder victims put on trial?”