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Bullhorns and Butterflies

If you want to build your faith up so that you honor Jesus and you draw people to Jesus in your lives, might I suggest you do it the way that Jesus did?

At Long Last, Language

91 days from now you could be exactly where you are, or you could be deep into the study of a new language, ready to connect with people!

When They See Us—Buffalo Edition

Perhaps white people's thoughts and prayers and good intentions aren't enough when their Black friends are asking for love and dignity.

Wherefore art thou, Evangelicals?

As America evolved as an independent nation freeing itself from certain connections with Britain such as political and economic control, so did the church, centering itself in the power and people of America who ran the nation, and inescapably represented their cultural values through religious language and theology.

SPEAKASY: An interview with Elyse Douglas

I had the opportunity to interview Elyse Douglas about her latest book, SPEAKEASY, published by Broadback. I appreciate that she gave so generously of her time when she could be working on the sequel!

SPEAKEASY, by Elyse Douglass

Roxie Raines is a girl out of time in 1925s New York City. So how did someone from 2019 end up in a speakeasy, anyway?

Not Your Place, Not Your Time

White people, do not go into Black spaces to help change the conversation or add your very important opinion. It is just not the time and place for that.

Making Good in Trouble

“Making good trouble” means stirring things up so that we do not become complacent about our situation and resigned to injustice

Wyte Innocence

Wyte people can’t be accused of bias or wrong unless there is exceedingly overwhelming “proof,” and even then we will go down fighting and insisting that we were not wrong

Jesus as Emperor

This post is kinda inside baseball for those who identify in some sense as “Christian.” And it’s my opinion/observation. But … More