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Honest Faith
So, let’s talk about being the church. At Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, New York – one of the premier black churches in America – there’s a major kerfuffle happening.…
Read MoreWhat Kind of Christian Are You? Part 5 – Spiritual AND Religious
One of the most common complaints against people involved in organized religion is that they don’t DO much. We might have lots of inner-focused activities, but outreach is less of…
Read MoreWhat Kind of Christian Are You? Part 4 – Universalist
First, I want to be clear that I deeply respect my Unitarian Universalist brothers and sisters; the congregations I have been connected to over the years have been full of…
Read MoreWhat Kind Of Christian Are You? Part 3 – Spiritual
Have you ever met someone who made you think, “This person is connected to the Spirit.”? I have met a lot of them, and I always walk away feeling inadequate.…
Read MoreWhat Kind Of Christian Are You? Part 2 – Creedal
I was not raised in a church that did Creeds very often. My little United Methodist Church would occasionally read one of the historic Creeds from our hymnal, but I…
Read MoreWhat Kind Of Christian Are You? Part 1 – Biblical
You can see it proudly displayed on church signs – We Are a Bible Believing Church! If it isn’t in the Bible, they say, it doesn’t matter. Or – The…
Read MoreWhen We Unite, Good Things Can Happen
Our United Church of Christ Pennsylvania SE Conference joined with the three other PA UCC Conferences into one, and we are called Keystone Conference. This past June we had our…
Read MoreToxic Christian Misogyny
Constitution of the United States into a Christian Fundamentalist manifesto that gives voting rights to Christians. A Christian woman who is a single person living alone would, he says, probably…
Read MoreHate Will Lose
Today’s art is a photo of a woman of color on a train on the 4th of July surrounded by members of the hate group, the Patriot Front. It is…
Read MoreSaying No to Bigotry
It barely made the news, but Mt. Olive Pickle Company dropped out of being part of the North Carolina booth for the Great American State Fair because there was a…
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