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Why Our Dialogue on Race Needs More Gospel
During the recent Day of Service at the Virginia Annual Conference of United Methodism, some clergy and laity took part in an in-service on racial reconciliation sponsored by a commission of the larger...
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God’s Not Angry, But Jesus Is: Charlottesville a Year Later
Friday afternoon a year ago, 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...
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Episode 173 – Natasha Robinson: A Sojourner’s Truth
Natasha S. Robinson joins the podcast to talk about her new book, ‘A Sojourner’s Truth.’ Natasha is a Naval Academy graduate, served in the United States Marine Corps, was the Senior Diversity...
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The Bottomless Glass
John 2.1-11 Were you all paying attention? Jesus responds to Mary’s alarm that the already drunk guests have run out wine by making more wine for them to drink. Listen to the story again: Jesus...
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To be a Virginian
This one comes from my friend and colleague, Reverend Drew Colby. There’s an anonymous quote which gets recited on occasion in Virginia that goes like this: “To be a Virginian either by birth,...
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A White Liberation Theology
The latest in a series from my brother from a different mother, Rev. Drew Colby: “The white person entered the voting booth burdened by the load of guilt for having enjoyed the fruits of oppression and...
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Episode #215 — Joel Goza— America’s Unholy Ghosts: The Racist Roots of Our...
“Racism is the ideological building block of our nation. Our current politics, our prisons, our inner cities— our system produces exactly the results it seeks by design.” As we celebrate Independence...
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After El Paso: They Looked Like My Kids (Or: Mr President’s Christians— Words...
In his Letter to the Romans, the Apostle Paul mixes his metaphors when he writes about the already but still not yet character of the New Creation. Paul uses both the language of adoption and...
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The Way of the Son in the Far Country
Luke 15.11-32 St. Luke reports the motive. The Pharisees and the scribes were grumbling, Luke writes at the top of chapter fifteen. They were outraged: “This Jesus welcomes sinners— tax collectors,...
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