Black History Month is a time to acknowledge and celebrate the achievements and courageous acts of people of African descent in the United States and around the world. This year Black History month celebrates its 100th anniversary. Yet Black History Month has failed to fully
It all starts on the playground What a delight to learn that my 14-year-old grandson and a bunch of his friends had organized their own recreational league basketball team that includes no adult coach and no practices. It’s meant purely to have plain old fun
Just over five years ago, an enraged mob desecrated the U.S. Capitol. At present, the interests who manipulated the mob on January 6, 2021 have control over the U.S. federal government. Despite government promises of peace and prosperity, it has brought escalating violence in this
Heeding the call for healing The 2026 observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day marks the 41st observance of the holiday. Its theme — “Mission Possible 2: Building Community, Uniting a Nation the Nonviolent Way” — already felt challenging in a politically polarized era. With
Love the ‘sinner,’ period If there are two phrases often lobbed at LGBTQ+ people that really get my blood boiling, they’re that old chestnut “Love the sinner, hate the sin” and any version of “Loving you doesn’t mean I have to like or accept you.”
In with the new, but out with the old? It’s just a New Years’ saying that affirms that what’s coming up is, we hope, better. But the sentiment in much of our culture sees “old” as even dreaded enough to say more broadly, “out with
The dawn of a new year presents LGBTQ+ people with so much more than just a new page on the calendar: We have a profound opportunity to turn the page on religious narratives that have been wielded against us as tools of exclusion rather than
The signs are all there. Liberal church bodies are fighting back. Every so often in the past they did so, but now the open, unholy marriage of extreme right-wing bigotry, its political proponents, and right-wing religionists seems to have put denominations and religious leaders on
Remarks delivered at the Dakota OutRight Capital Pride 2023 Multifaith Worship Service. The Golden Rule. A maxim revered in some similar form in almost every ethical tradition. What do these words mean? Who is our neighbor? How do we live with open ears and open
Let’s start with polyamory Several years ago, for reasons that are unimportant, I took an Uber from Atlanta to Jackson, Ga. The driver was a kind and curious young man who was very interested to hear that I was going into the Christian ministry. He