Friday Favorites: The Best of Enemies
If you like true stories that are also inspirational and suggest that love really can overcome hatred and fear, you have to watch The Best of Enemies. The Best of…
If you like true stories that are also inspirational and suggest that love really can overcome hatred and fear, you have to watch The Best of Enemies. The Best of…
For years, the idea of “Black Jesus” confused me. I understood why we needed to subvert the all-too-familiar image of Jesus as blonde-haired and blue-eyed. Jesus was Jewish and grew…
Slow, local, messy. Small, hidden, unnoticed. Patient, gentle, kind. These are the words I tend to use to describe the work of God’s Spirit in our lives and in the…
We’ve heard the rhetoric that demonizes Critical Race Theory. But should citizens of the Kingdom of God have a different response? David Bailey, executive director of Arrabon, talks with Amy…
We need to begin envisioning and creating collaborative spaces for the work of justice, reconciliation, and healing. I wrote yesterday about how we cannot skip from exclusion to belonging. And…
When it comes to the work of undoing systemic injustice in America, many of us want to skip to the end of the story, from exclusion to belonging. We would…
I used to act as though personal healing and social healing were opposed to each other. If I make time to take care of myself, I don’t have time to…
I've teamed up with some awesome authors for a TEN-BOOK giveaway! You can win all TEN of these books, which are all about privilege, racism, social healing, and faith (if…
[If you are looking for my Love Is Stronger Than Fear podcast, please go here.] Evil is always (and only) a distortion of the good. This world was created good,…
Honestly, my favorite thing about this week is that our kids all went back to school. I love their schools. They like their schools. I love getting back into a…