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Episode 2: We are interconnected | A conversation with Pamela Lightsey
We have a responsiblity to agitate for justice, but we can't lose our love for the human soul and its dignity in the midst of that work.
Six predictions for the post-pandemic church
It won’t look the same, but there’s potential for renewal.
What does the Mississippi Delta sound like in verse?
Philip Kolin’s poetry is about juke joints, bluesmen, mosquitoes, ladybugs, race, faith, and more.
Episode 87: Groundhog Day
Matt and Adam are joined by Steve Bragaw to talk about grace, pandemic, and Groundhog Day.
The plot twist I wish Locked Down had
It’s a screwball comedy about pandemic life! Pandemic life without kids, that is.
A meditation on Jazz during Lent
We are flakes of snow; we are notes vanishing in the air.
California church recognized for role in Chicano movement
Lydia Lopez was demonstrating in a picket line in 1968 to support Mexican American educator Sal Castro, who had been removed from the classroom after participating in student walkouts protesting ra...
The faith leaders who helped bring about peace in Uganda
On February 4, the International Criminal Court found Dominic Ongwen, a trusted lieutenant in the Lord’s Resistance Army, guilty of 61 counts of murder, rape, sexual enslavement, and the “forced p...
After SCOTUS decision, Alabama allows spiritual advisers at executions
Alabama is amending its lethal injection procedures to allow a condemned inmate to have his spiritual adviser in the execution chamber, state lawyers wrote in a February 25 court filing....
Grants to church food pantries promote
relationships with local farmers, restaurants
A grant program for rural United Methodist Churches in North Carolina aims to help congregations see their food pantry ministries within the larger picture of hunger in America....
Marsha Scipio tapped to lead Baptist World Aid
Marsha Scipio has been named director of Baptist World Aid, the community development arm of the Baptist World Alliance....
Gospel Music Hall of Famer Carman dies at 65
Carmelo Domenic Licciardello, an evangelical performing artist known as Carman, died on February 16. He was 65....
Candace M. Lewis is first woman to lead Gammon Theological Seminary
Candace M. Lewis has been named president-dean of Gammon Theological Seminary in Atlanta, the first woman to serve in that role in the school’s 138-year history....
Jesus and Black anger (John 2:13-22; Lent 3B)
Who are the other enraged voices crying out from the temple with Christ?
April 2, Good Friday (Isaiah 52:13-53:12; John 18:1-19:42)
How does Isaiah's Suffering Servant compare to John’s Jesus?
How the dream of a Judeo-Christian America shaped the culture wars
Healan Gaston excavates a label that has both divided and united us.