Rev. Todd Atkins-WhitleyJuneteenth: The March for Freedom Must ContinueI delivered this sermon on June 16, 2024 at Danville (CA) Congregational Church UCC, Fourth Sunday After Pentecost. Special musical guest…Jun 17Jun 17
Rev. Todd Atkins-WhitleyLessons from World AIDS Day: “We are the Church Alive, the Church with AIDS”The designation of December 1 as World AIDS Day feels at once macabre yet also hopeful. I must admit, though: I have to work a bit to get…Dec 2, 2022Dec 2, 2022
Rev. Todd Atkins-WhitleyDis-ease.The mass shooting at a gay bar in Colorado Springs this week arouses within me a kind of uneasiness — the kind that never really goes away…Nov 23, 2022Nov 23, 2022
Rev. Todd Atkins-WhitleyThe house is eerily quiet.Light restrained by clouds peers through the blinds like hope delayed, longing to break through.Nov 4, 2020Nov 4, 2020
Rev. Todd Atkins-WhitleyWaking Up. Part 2 of “The Great White Awakening” by Rev. Todd Atkins-WhitleyWhite people as a people group might be waking up. White noise, it appears, is impotent to deflect, distract, and delude us any longer.Jun 20, 2020Jun 20, 2020
Rev. Todd Atkins-WhitleyDear HarveyI didn’t get to know you. I wish often I had.May 22, 2020May 22, 2020
Rev. Todd Atkins-WhitleyHoly Saturday in a PandemicToday my reflections turn to the space between Good Friday and Easter: Holy Saturday.Apr 11, 2020Apr 11, 2020
Rev. Todd Atkins-WhitleyBeholding Black JoyIt is right and it is important and it is necessary for white people to understand the history of Black people — particularly (and…Feb 9, 2020Feb 9, 2020
Rev. Todd Atkins-WhitleyThe Christmas Story, circa 2018An adaptation of the gospel of Jesus according to Luke, chapter 2Dec 18, 2018Dec 18, 2018