Introduction As a progressive congregation in a state that strongly identifies as conservative and evangelical, Mayflower Congregational United Church of Christ in Oklahoma City offers an unexpected expression of Christianity Continue Reading
Introduction In the Shema Yisrael, hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one[1], God’s people are commanded to hear before they are commanded to speak. In the Continue Reading
Introduction On Saturday, March 30, 2019, the San Francisco Bay Area faith community and the community-at-large suffered a tremendous loss. At 7 pm that evening, the Very Reverend James V. Continue Reading
Today’s Class Will Meet on Zoom What the New Arms Race in Higher Education Means Believe me, before I entered the doctor of ministry program at Emory’s Candler School of Theology Continue Reading
Introduction My brother Eric was the oldest of eight children. Considered one of the smartest boys in our county, he skipped two grades in school and graduated early. Attending Continue Reading
Welcome to Kinfolk, where our lives are holier when they are shared together. In the summer of 2012 Kinfolk was a dream. Now, Kinfolk is a thriving young adult community Continue Reading
The Project Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Nashville, Tennessee is launching the Dream Center Project, an ambitious effort to build affordable rental housing in North Nashville, while simultaneously initiating economic Continue Reading
the Rev’d Jay Weldon, Parish of the Good Shepherd, Waban, Massachusetts Introduction I am an Episcopal priest and I preach almost every Sunday. I receive all of the comments that Continue Reading
Why the Peace Garden Project? I was raised in the south in a pretty fundamentalist Baptist Church, and I have a Muslim sister. Though my beliefs are no longer Continue Reading
On October 5, 2017, Jeffrey Rosen, President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Constitution Center, presented a lecture entitled, “A Question of Citizenship: The Fourteenth Amendment Yesterday and Today,” Continue Reading