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“The cross demands that we join in God’s eternal mission to create a loving and just world.” – Our new Voices columnist, Kelly Brown Douglas https://t.co/FRZ2yMaxue
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The divine mission of love and justice must become our mission.
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“It is not just the words that Jeremiah speaks that make him a prophet. It is his willingness to share in the judgment, in the lamentation, in the exile.” – Diane Roth #lectionary
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It is not just his words that make Jeremiah a prophet. It is his willingness to share in the...
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“Like most young men his age, my son is caught in the crosshairs of our shifting ideas about violence and masculinity, and Cobra Kai taps into this.” – @kathrynreklis
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The Karate Kid reboot taps into our shifting ideas about violence and masculinity.
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Amy Leach playfully contrasts the apocalyptic, fundamentalist worldviews of her childhood with the teeming abundance of life that she found later. Review by @amyfryk: https://t.co/vREotSKUWy
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“‘Who is God?’ has become somewhat of a daily question for me, a kind of centering I’ve needed as God and Christianity and the Bible are invoked alongside policies of death and confinement and deportation and exclusion.” – Brian Bantum https://t.co/zhHfsSQPv3
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“Who is God?” Today, God is the rising and falling of my...
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“We need to speak out. We need to say, for example, that mass deportation is against our gospel values and our baptismal covenant. We need to not shrink back or worry.” – Martin Dickinson, in an interview with @olivalejandra_
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“We’re constantly saying what we’re against,” says Martin Dickinson, a lay leader at the cathedral’s sanctuary ministry, “and that’s necessary. But what are we for? Migration with Dignity gives us...
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“Theological study, if we’re doing it right, doesn’t avoid the crises of our world. It interrogates them at the deepest level.” – Andrew Packman https://t.co/D4uV76ggxE
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Theological education is precarious, inconvenient, and uncomfortable. So why do students keep...
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“To trace human work through gratitude to grace is pretty standard Lutheran fare. Many at Holden Village add a critical third piece: the gift of God’s creation and in return our care for this gift.” – Jason Mahn https://t.co/bzVMlQuNJg
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At Holden Village, a Lutheran retreat center nestled deep in the Cascades, I asked my students to consider their vocation in light of the...
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How shall we render to Caesar? Richard Lischer offers a gospel-centered call for faithful resistance and reconciliation. https://t.co/nbtsTOfKN1
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Resistance and reconciliation
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Journalist @joeberg documents Elie Wiesel’s work, his activism, and the belief in God that he never fully renounced. Read the review by Charles Scriven: https://t.co/g3ABcZWwLh
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“What if you’re facing an emergency, your fight-or-flight response has been triggered, and you’ve been conditioned since childhood to call the police—even if your thinking on policing has since changed?” – the Christian Century editors https://t.co/b2Qr7qXjQG
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When we encounter a crisis, it’s helpful to have more phone numbers at the ready than just...
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“The sacraments are depth charges in the complacent waterways of the church, disturbing sediment and creating new channels.” – Rachel Mann https://t.co/HLxxvd2uBY
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Baptism and Eucharist should rework all of our ideas about...
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“To steady ourselves we’ll need to find each other, to make room for one another around a table, in our living rooms, at church.” – Isaac Villegas https://t.co/Vo6E8QUTgw
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More than ever, we need the common life we can create for each other, a shared life for the benefit of...
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“No one from 16th-century Anabaptism lived long enough to write a systematic theology.” – Melissa Florer-Bixler https://t.co/CsCbYGMgDm
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If I want kinship with my Anabaptist ancestors, I know where to look: in...
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“Pressing into our sanctified imagination ushers us beyond a faith that already makes sense to us.” – Charisse R. Tucker #lectionary
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Life in Christ calls for a new kind of seeing and...
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“There came a child once / who sang God’s peace, / a potent “all is well,” / though nothing was, / piped in a small voice / in the middle of a dark night / with no promise of dawn.” – Read Kathleen L. Housley’s full poem: https://t.co/wnOSvfN0le
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Taymullah Abdur-Rahman, or Imam Tay as he is affectionately known, demonstrates that friendship across religious difference can elicit personal and social transformation. Review by Rafia Amina Khader: https://t.co/jl2JPCH4XO
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“I was struck by the contrast between the clarity and forthrightness of the students’ activism and the response of the broader church.” – Emilee Walker-Cornetta https://t.co/3SKsX23lsx
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I interviewed students at five schools about their advocacy for Palestine and how it connects to resisting antisemitism, their institutions, and their faith.
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“I predict that academic theology will continue to show a greater interest in the topic of cooking. But I fear that it will be an interest abstracted from the actual people who have been responsible for cooking for most of human history.” – @kvslice
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There has been a vast amount of writing on theology and cooking. Why isn’t it taken seriously within the academy?
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