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Interpretation
Jesus decries our reluctance to see what’s wrong with our world. Not because we can’t see it. But because we refuse to do what we need to do. Jesus and the gathering storm cloudsProper 15C | Luke 12:49-56 Jesus just opened up a can, didn’t he? And what is supposed to happen next goes one…
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Don’t Just Fact-Check Those Racist Tweets
The bigger argument doesn’t rely on facts. Fact-checking racist tweets is only so useful. But it is really, really enticing. When the president suggested four U.S. Representatives “go back” to other countries he offered the kind of red meat few can resist. Not that resisting that impulse is actually better. It is not. But many…
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Why do Neo-Nazis need a police escort?
Dealing with Neo-Nazis and white nationalists doesn’t need to be that complicated.
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Paul, James, and the politics of poverty
Today’s conversations about poverty are based on a fundamentally flawed argument.
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Unearthing Whiteness
The greatest challenge to race relations in the US is whiteness. Not in skin color, but the belief that European cultural roots are fundamentally better. Part 1 “If Trayvon was of age and armed, could he have stood his ground on that sidewalk?” —President Barack Obama, July 19, 2013 This is the question we refuse…
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How to summarize a time of great division
Kelly Brown Douglas confronts the history which not only brought us Stand Your Ground laws, but undergirds a constant struggle for continued oppression.
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Living into God’s Time
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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