Experiencing racism is harder than, you know, talking about it.
A quick request: If you appreciate this newsletter would you please share it with a few friends? Thanks! A couple of days ago I spent an hour with about...
Separated by the Border
Between our recent anniversary travel in Greece and helping out with a Sankofa Journey last weekend, it's been a few weeks since I sent out a newsletter....
The Offense of Grace: Botham and Brandt Jean and White Christian America’s Refusal to be Forgiven
Maggie and I got home on Thursday after a couple of wonderful weeks traveling in Greece - and 48 hours in Paris on the way home - to celebrate our 20th...
The modest work of Scripture and prayer.
This Cooper's Hawk made our garden its hunting ground one morning this week. Eugene Person, more than any other author, has shaped my imagination of what it...
Ideology won't save us.
I read two longish articles earlier this week that I'll be thinking about for a while. The first, "What’s Missing From “White Fragility”, explores the work...
Who gets to keep the Sabbath?
Spotted outside Farragut High School on Monday. Last week I mentioned an interview I participated in that covered some connections between worship and...
Living Justly Amidst Moral Complexity
We spent this week at the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in Michigan. We'd heard about this place for years but had never ventured north beyond Grand...
Deporting Clergy
Our friend Esther Yoon-Ji Kang reported this sad story earlier this week of another deportation in our city. The latest request for the stay of removal — the...
"...we have never been the problem but the solution..."
“Virginity is completely identified with sex,” she said, “what a person has not experienced. It’s that closed-off, puritanical kind of thing.” But Sister...
Cracked, Concealed, and Called
Earlier this summer I spent a few days at the Whitworth Ministry Summit where I spoke about the imago Dei and race. Those talks have been posted and you can...