Min. DeShay W. Freemyer- Jackson, Associate Pastor for Brighton Allston Congregational Church UCC in Boston, Massachusetts, sings “She Persisted Still.” This song celebrates many women in public...

New life awaits us all along the gospel way; we’re growing and becoming stronger every day. We join with people rising up on every shore, and we keep on embracing new life evermore. We will not let...

There is plenty to resist these days. All around we find injustices. Women still don’t have equal rights. Racial and gender discrimination continue. Human rights are violated in our country and...

Many churches still exclude women from pastoral leadership. Large denominations, such as Southern Baptist and Roman Catholic, still won’t ordain women to ministry. How can this be when the Bible...

The question often raised when I’m leading discussions on expanding divine names and images is “You do believe Jesus is male, don’t you?” At first I tried to give detailed theological explanations,...

This hymn celebrates darkness as sacred power giving birth to all creation. Sacred Darkness creates a world of justice and peace. We join this creation, contributing to racial justice and equity by...

With all the challenges in our lives and in the world, we may not waken to the wonders all around us. Spring is my favorite time of year. Daffodils, tulips, redbud trees, dogwood trees, and azaleas...

Wars are raging in the Middle East, Ukraine, and elsewhere in our world, resulting in deaths of thousands of children and others. These wars leave people without homes, food, water, fuel, and other...

Our Milky Way Galaxy contains 100-400 billion stars. The Milky Way is just one of  around two trillion galaxies in the observable universe. How could we ever limit the Creator of so vast a universe...

There is much to resist these days. We may feel overwhelmed by all the injustices in our world. But all together we can rise up stronger to resist these injustices. Recently, Vontril McLemore and...

When we look around our world, we find little unity in diversity. Diverse people in organizations, communities, and institutions often do not unify to work for the common good. Governments, churches,...

It was an honor to take part in a conversation initiated by Mark Wingfield, editor of Baptist News Global. He asked theological questions about Jesus’ mother Mary and about the use of the words...

We are all in the divine image. (Genesis 1:26-27). People of all genders and races are in the divine image. By naming the Divine “Mother” as well as “Father,” “She,” as well as “He” and more, we can...

Letha Dawson Scanzoni, Oct. 9, 1935 – Jan. 9, 2024 Letha Dawson Scanzoni’s life and work transformed the lives of countless people around the world. I’m blessed to be among these. In 1976, when I was...