By Rev. Dr. Cheryl F. Dudley
So then, putting away falsehood, let all of us speak the truth to our neighbors, for we are members of one another. Be angry but do not sin; do not…
By Rev. Susan Sparks
You know how the book of Ecclesiastes says that there is nothing new under the sun? Well, the writers were wrong. Last weekend, I heard about something that was not only new under the sun, but frankly new under any star or planet. Ready?
By Rev. Marie Onwubuariri
Words to the Canaanite/Syro-Phoenician Woman
Can I just tell you?I have watched you from afar, and,well, my reactions have gone fromdisdain, toanger, toseeking understanding, toresonating, toall out…
In our contemporary society, including our ministerial culture, busyness seems to be secretly valued, even as we superficially criticize our commitment-packed calendars. Many who have felt the swell for the current state of racial tensions in…
By Rev. Harold Dean Trulear, Ph.D.
When I was ordained into the Baptist ministry in 1978, an old preacher told me I’d “better know two things: Hiscox and…
O that my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears, so that I might weep day and night for the slain of…
By Dr. Sally Quiñones-Rodríguez
When I read and hear about recent tragedies — such as the massacre at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, the assassination of Philando Castile and police killings in…
By Curtis Ramsey-Lucas
On July 18, the White House convened a forum on disability and criminal justice reform. Ronald Hampton, an advisory board member for the…
By Rebecca Vallas
America’s four-decade-long experiment with mass incarceration and over-criminalization is widely recognized as a failure. We lock up a greater share of…
By The Rev. Dr. W. Kenneth Williams
In the early 1990s, extending my role as a volunteer chaplain with the Brighton fire and police departments, Rochester, N.Y., I was asked to train in critical…