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What Qualifies as Racism?
This morning over oatmeal I listened to a great NPR story on the 50th Anniversary of the first black student bravely reporting to class at Ole Miss, escorted by the National Guard while hundreds of...
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Are You As Racist As Paula Deen?
Answer: Probably. As you likely know, Paula Deen’s saturated empire is crumbling like a stack of empty calories after reports of her having used racial epithets in the past and practiced business with...
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Guns, Race and Galatians 3 Two 8
I’m assuming (ie, hoping you’ve been paying attention) to the story of Renisha Marie McBride, a 19 year old black girl who knocked on the front door of a white family to ask for help. They assumed she...
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On Ferguson: America Possessed by Demons
One of the fortuitous charisms of a blog such as this is the community of friends I would not have otherwise had the opportunity to ‘meet.’ It’s the peculiar nature of a blog that I’ve never actually...
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If I Were Preaching Today, the Week After
I’m not preaching today. It’s the last day of my vacation. It’s probably a good thing I’m not preaching today. In light of Philander Castile and Alton Sterling and the Dallas murders and Micah Xavier...
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“What’s Happening to America?!”
“What’s happening to America?” I’ve overheard such comments, exasperated and worried, frequently of late. Baton Rouge, Minnesota, Dallas, Nice, Baton Rouge again: “Has the world lost its mind?” I...
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Original Sin
According to a congressman in North Carolina black protestors there in the South- in the South (in case you missed the emphasis: in the South) hate white people because white people are successful....
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Grace and Justice
My friend the poet, writer, and undertaker Thomas Lynch likes to say that Christians are those people who show up. Show up, he doesn’t need to add, when shit gets real. According to Tom’s measure, my...
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Episode 53: Fridays with Fleming – Don’t Preach Lettuce Sermons
For Episode 53 we have another installment of Fridays with Fleming (Rutledge). I invited my friend and new member of the Cracker and Grape Juice Posse, Taylor Mertins, and Fleming’s #2 Fan, Kenneth...
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Episode 55: Trumping the Demon of Racism
In the wake of the 2016 election, Morgan Guyton from the Crackers & Grape Juice posse and author of How God Saves the World from Us talks with Suhuey and Jen, United Methodist Hispanic Youth,...
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Episode 89 – Drew Colby: I’m a Racist (And So Can You!)
In all the commotion of Holy Week, I forgot to push our latest conversation from Crackers and Grape Juice. In Episode 89 (we’ve been at this almost a year now and we’re nearing #100!), Teer Hardy and I...
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Inviting Richard Spencer to Church
Here in Alexandria this week the local gym made news by canceling the membership of Richard Spencer, leader of the Alt-Right (racist, anti-Semitic and xenophobic) movement. Identified by a Georgetown...
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Stanley Hauerwas: Racism, Reconciliation, and White Guilt
My Alexandria neighbor, Richard Spencer, and the alt-right have planned a Unite the Right rally near my alma mater, in Charlottesville, Va. It’s set for tomorrow to lament the loss of white...
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Unite the Right(eous): Live Cross-Podcast Conversation on Charlottesville
Our friend of the podcast, Dr. Jeffrey Pugh, was present this Saturday for the counter-demonstration to the alt-right Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. We thought it was important to hear from...
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Angry Like Jesus: Righteous Rage as Full Humanity
Friday afternoon my oldest son and I milled around downtown Charlottesville in the hours before the tiki-torch bearing scare mob descended from the Rotunda, spouting racist nonsense whose ultimate...
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Ash Wednesday Every Day
I preached this Sunday at my good friend Todd Littleton’s church, Snow Hill Baptist, outside Oklahoma City. Todd followed the same schedule through Romans this summer as my church. My text was Romans...
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Episode #111 – Praying with Your Feet: The One Thousand Minister March
It turns out Teer Hardy is good for more than just Orioles stats and an alt-right side-part. Speaking of the alt-right, Teer scored us press passes for Monday’s One Thousand Minister March in...
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Episode #118 – Ruben Rosario Rodriguez: Witness and Violence
Back in the day, Ruben taught Jason Barth, Luther, and Calvin for the first time. Now, they’re both black sheep, closet Reformation guys in Catholic and Wesleyan folds respectively. Ruben Rosario...
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Hammer Time
Ash Wednesday – Matthew 6 I want to thank you all for coming out tonight instead of staying home and watching the Charlie Brown Ash Wednesday Special with your kids. There is a Michael Bolton Big...
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All Lives Matter & Low Anthropology
Thanks to saturation coverage of what feels like a Foggy Bottom edition of Jersey Shore, you’re forgiven if you didn’t get word that today Christians et al marked the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther...
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