Cowboys and Indians: Dismantling the Western, Settler-Colonial Worldview...
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article on “Embedded Fallacies in the Western Worldview” is the third in a 4-part series to deconstruct the Western, settler-colonial worldview and to #ResurrectEloheh. Dualism:...
View ArticleCowboys and Indians: Dismantling the Western, Settler-Colonial Worldview...
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article on “Shifting Worldviews and Indigenous Empowerment” is the last in a 4-part series to deconstruct the Western, settler-colonial worldview and to #ResurrectEloheh....
View ArticlePlease Care
I don’t get to Seattle often, but when I do, I usually pass through a certain busy intersection. The past few times, months apart, I noticed an older Black man holding a sign on the traffic island...
View ArticleWhat Red Letter Christians Can Do When Political Talk Becomes Difficult
Perhaps the most problematic result of the vitriol that has infected political discourse via the mass media is that people have tended to shy away from any discussion on political issues because they...
View ArticleHow Wellness Culture Is About More Than Beauty
Via RNS — Last week, novelist Jessica Knoll wrote a scorching op-ed in the New York Times devoted to taking down the wellness industry. Reflecting on a lifetime of “counting macros, replacing rice with...
View ArticleThy Will Be Done
“You’ve got to think of people first,” he said in defense of yet another blatant assault on the environment in the name of creature comforts. I was stunned to hear this cynical, reductive, and (self)...
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#GoldsboroRevival: Challenging the Distorted Moral Narrative of the Religious...
We’re thrilled to announce that we’re partnering with Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II and Repairers of the Breach to co-host a two-night Red Letter Revival on October 1st and 2nd in Goldsboro, North...
View ArticleChasing Resurrection: How Conservation Is Gospel Work
We need varying strategies for convincing Christians to invest in environmental conservation. Some read Genesis 1 with an extended interpretation of what “dominion” should really mean. Others appeal to...
View ArticlePeople of Faith Know What Must Be Done on Climate Change
Via RNS — As America’s youth march in the climate strike this week and United Nations leaders discuss climate change at their summit in New York, the climate crisis is already here. Storms are becoming...
View ArticleLeft Behind: How End Times Heresies Undermine Evangelical Action on Climate
Climate Week kicked off in New York City this week (September 23-29) as a matter of global urgency. Organized in collaboration with the United Nations, the week is meant to showcase climate initiatives...
View ArticleWake Up! A New Day of Justice Is Dawning!
EDITOR’S NOTE: This reflection by Brian McLaren is part of the 2019 Growing the Light: Advent Reflections on Farmworker Justice. “Besides this, you know what time it is, how it is now the moment for...
View ArticleWorthy of the Fruits of Justice
EDITOR’S NOTE: This reflection by Kaji Douša is part of the 2019 Growing the Light: Advent Reflections on Farmworker Justice. “He said to them, ‘You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the...
View ArticleHow to Celebrate Christmas: Change the World
Via RNS — In America, as in many other places where Christmas has been appropriated by secular culture, even people who don’t care who Jesus was or what he taught will find themselves darkening the...
View ArticleBurning Down the House
It takes quite something for Australia to make the U.S. media, apart from fluff pieces on our strange and sometimes deadly wildlife. These past few weeks, however, have put Australia firmly in the...
View ArticleFinding Freedom & Salvation in a Weary World
The cold is creeping in this winter, as I sit in my Minnesota living room, bundled up with blankets and a hot beverage. Our furnace isn’t working — again — and now that Christmas has passed, it seems...
View ArticleThe Earth as My Neighbour
The Lord’s prayer is a grounded prayer; an earthy prayer. “Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” Earth can be abstract: the planet on which we live, the atmosphere and...
View ArticleLessons From the Fog (And This Pandemic)
This morning, I drove into the city where I live from my parents’ house an hour away. My family is officially engaged in what I have coined The Great Shuffle, where my son’s care is being shared by...
View ArticleDear Christians, It’s Time to Take Creation Care Seriously
The state of our planet, like so many issues in politics and pop culture today, has become a hotbed for social media debate. I’ve never understood why people would question whether or not we should...
View ArticleBeauty for Weary Souls
“When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole...
View ArticleFire in the Sky: On Divisions and Forgiveness
“I’ve seen it raining fire in the sky.”- John Denver, Rocky Mountain High Every August, for as long as I can remember, we’ve invited friends to join us in watching the Perseids Meteor Shower. Living...
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