I’ve been thinking that someone should write a book called “Reverend Doctor.” I’m not qualified to write it–but somebody should. Here’s the idea (feel free to steal it because...
Here are Some Things That Are Stuck in 1984… The A-Team: MTV’s Max Headroom: The Karate Kid: Van Halen’s “Jump”: Knight Rider: The 2013 Immigration Debate in Washington: The...
I won’t list the things I’m thinking about, but I will confess to you that of late I have “heard things” that make me feel some more intense emotions....
Recently Larry Salway, pastor of He Sapa, posted a wonderful video describing how his ministry to Native peoples has gone about restoring native protocols and respect in moving forward...
I am praying today specifically for the pastors and Churches located in Sacramento, Seattle, Tampa, & Portland… Less than a third of the population of each of these metro...
A fifth way to respond to Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Letter from Birmingham Jail is to be ever vigilant. Yes, I must start by celebrating and then confessing, which...
So far in this series on Five Ways to Respond to the Letter from Birmingham Jail, we’ve talked about celebrating the progress that has already been achieved, confessing the...
I’ve seen some chatter of late on social media about racism and one suggestion is that we might be talking about it too much–that somehow we are “stuck” in...
I am cross-blogging today on a series Christin Taylor has written recently. We often talk about homosexuality in heated terms and don’t ask hard scriptural questions about it, and...
The first way I’m trying to respond to the Letter from Birmingham Jail is to celebrate progress. So much ground has been gained, yet we cannot stop at that...
In the spring of 1963 eight white clergymen in Birmingham, Alabama, wrote an open letter with a thinly veiled reference to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as an “outsider”...
It has been 50 years since Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote his famous Letter from Birmingham Jail. This is a short series on “Five Ways to Respond to...