Over the past year, I have come across countless resources calling for more churches to be racially and culturally diverse. I have had conversations with pastors and other church leaders wanting to do the diversity ‘thing,’ who are exploring how they might attract congregants of a skin color other than their own. In all honesty, …
Continue reading I’m Blogging at Missio-Alliance Today: Diversity is Not Enough
Over the next several weeks, I will be exploring the Lord’s Prayer as a model for forming a social justice theology. Throughout this series, I will be proposing that Jesus’ instructions in Matthew 6 show believers how to pray and also how we should reorient our lives and relationships with one another in light of …
Continue reading Lord’s Prayer as Social Justice Theology: Give Us Our Daily Bread (Part 5)
Over the next several weeks, I will be exploring the Lord’s Prayer as a model for forming a social justice theology. Throughout this series, I will be proposing that Jesus’ instructions in Matthew 6 show believers how to pray and also how we should reorient our lives and relationships with one another in light of …
Over the next several weeks, I will be exploring the Lord’s Prayer as a model for forming a social justice theology. Throughout this series, I will be proposing that Jesus’ instructions in Matthew 6 show believers how to pray and also how we should reorient our lives and relationships with one another in light of …
Continue reading Lord’s Prayer as Social Justice Theology: Holy is Your Name (Part 3)
Over the next several weeks, I will be exploring the Lord's Prayer as a model for forming a social justice theology. Throughout this series, I will be proposing that Jesus' instructions in Matthew 6 are not only meant to show believers how to pray but how we should reorient our lives and relationships with one another …
Continue reading Lord’s Prayer as Social Justice Theology: Our Father (Part 2)
Picture this: You have just found out you are pregnant. Only four weeks along at this point. You go home to give the news to your husband who is absolutely ecstatic. He wants twin boys, you desperately want a girl. Either way, it really doesn’t matter – all you really want and hope is for …
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