What should be done about Confederate monuments at National Parks?
Nothing. Historian Kevin Levin has a thought provoking essay on his blog Civil War Memory, about monuments to Confederates located in National Parks. Levin mak...
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Statement Calling for Immediate Cessation of Hostile Acts and Rhetoric Between USA and North Korea
“And they assembled them at the place that in Hebrew is called Harmagedon.” Revelation 16:16, NRSV The National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA cal...
When the Faithful Turn on You
I was once told that if you were going to be in pastoral ministry you were going to need thick skin, I learned that lesson the hard way and it appears Eugene Pe...
Lebanese pastor elected president of World Communion of Reformed Churches
By Amy Eckert “Here I stand, a Middle Eastern woman in the Pulpit of Luther.” So began the sermon delivered by Rev. Najla Kassab at the General Council worship ...
Disciples of Christ elect first woman of color to lead a mainline denomination
Despite all the talk of mainline decline, Teresa Hord Owens, the first woman of color to lead a mainline denomination, is not in survival mode. “The life that w...
America, a Christian Nation? What Does that Mean?
I am fascinated by the assumption that America was founded as a Christian nation. Sure, many of the “founders” were Christian, Protestant Christian mind you, b...
UUA Elects First Woman President
(RNS) An Arizona pastor and immigrant advocate has been elected as the first woman president of the Unitarian Universalist Association. The election of the Rev....
A House Divided
On June 16, 1858 more than 1,000 delegates met in the Springfield, Illinois, statehouse for the Republican State Convention. Lincoln’s friends thought th...
Christianity and White Supremacy
There is always a danger putting 21st Century beliefs and standards on people from other times, and this is no different with the ideas surrounding slave...
Southern Baptists Condemn White Supremacy
The members of the Southern Baptist Convention are meeting the week of June 13th for their annual meeting. One of the most controversial resolutions had the ti...