A man who goes blind loses what he knows, and that is precisely the loss. The man, having gone blind, remembers what the look of the sunset, a Father’s...
As the Mosaix Multi-Ethnic Conference began on November 5, 2013 in Long Beach, California, it was clear that it would not be like most conferences. At first glance you...
Today I’m recalling that Joseph in the book of Genesis was a victim of human trafficking. He also suffered injustices resulting from being an immigrant. Putting my feet in...
I wrote this letter to the editors of my local paper today. I hope they post excerpts of it soon: _______________________ August 29, 2013 Recently our Representative, Mrs. Susan...
This morning I was driving up to Chicago for meetings on Immigrant Ministry, in what has become, in my opinion, a spiritual successor to the Civil Rights Movement. Today...
I won’t list the things I’m thinking about, but I will confess to you that of late I have “heard things” that make me feel some more intense emotions....
Recently Larry Salway, pastor of He Sapa, posted a wonderful video describing how his ministry to Native peoples has gone about restoring native protocols and respect in moving forward...
I am praying today specifically for the pastors and Churches located in Sacramento, Seattle, Tampa, & Portland… Less than a third of the population of each of these metro...
A fifth way to respond to Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Letter from Birmingham Jail is to be ever vigilant. Yes, I must start by celebrating and then confessing, which...
So far in this series on Five Ways to Respond to the Letter from Birmingham Jail, we’ve talked about celebrating the progress that has already been achieved, confessing the...
I’ve seen some chatter of late on social media about racism and one suggestion is that we might be talking about it too much–that somehow we are “stuck” in...
I am cross-blogging today on a series Christin Taylor has written recently. We often talk about homosexuality in heated terms and don’t ask hard scriptural questions about it, and...