If we could love ourselves with compassion and have self-awareness of our needs and suffering, we would be able to relate to others and treat them in the way we would like to be treated.
Tag: Civil Rights
Elizabeth Glass Turner ~ Charlottesville: Do They Really Not See?
Faith can easily get mixed with culture, wherever and whenever Christian faith exists.
Wesleyan Accent ~ In Their Words: When Pastors Face Prejudice
It took me some time to share these reflections because in recalling these experiences, it was like pulling the Band-Aid off the wound. Some wounds never really heal because another one plops on top of it. They just become scar tissue that irritates us under the skin.
Elizabeth Glass Turner ~ Lisa Yebuah: Race as a Gospel Issue
In a Seedbed Seven Minute Seminary segment called, “Race as a Gospel Issue,” Lisa Yebuah’s story will challenge and encourage you as you live out your baptismal identity.
Kelcy Steele ~ Prayer, Protest & Protection: The Grace of a Lost Art
Much of the time, officers do exactly what they are supposed to do, and for this we can be grateful.
But they are armed. And the weapons they carry can easily kill people. This means that police officers must be trained to be extraordinarily disciplined in their perceptions of situations and people, and extraordinarily restrained in their use of deadly force. Otherwise the power they have to protect the innocent becomes a power to destroy the innocent.
Steve Beard ~ Take My Hand: The Gospel and the Blues
It was in the forsakenness of that hour that Dorsey chipped away at the piano and wrote, “Precious Lord, take my hand …” In the sorrow of the desolation and flood of his loss, the song that inspired Dr. King was the dove that Dorsey released in search of dry land, the flight of hope. It was his blues: “I am tired, I am weak, I am worn.” It was his gospel: “Lead me on, let me stand.”
“Selma” and the Embodiment of Discipleship
What if Christians were more intentional in embodying the very message we proclaim? The call to discipleship involves the summons to presence and practice.
Jeff Rudy ~ If Only (Or, the Sermon I Couldn’t Deliver but My Wife Did)
Simon and Garfunkel quipped that “the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenement halls and whispered in the sound of silence.” At the beginning of the song, they sang, “hello darkness, my old friend, I’ve come to talk with you again.” Advent meets us in the darkness, in the silence. So do the prophets.
Maxie Dunnam ~ Memphis Teacher Residency: A Bold Mission
The program is receiving attention and accolades from everywhere. I don’t know anything quite like it in our country. I urge you, check out the website, share the information with young people you know, and challenge them to join us in Memphis to help us solve the greatest social justice and civil rights issue in America today. Wouldn’t it be just like God to use Memphis as a proving witness that education for all is possible?
Maxie Dunnam ~ Public Confession and Repentance
Thank God for pastors and lay leaders who recognized that history is important, and when unrecognized and unconfessed, sin poisons the body. We don’t keep secrets, our secrets keep us.