In all seriousness, as if the United States skipped abolition, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, the Civil Rights Era, and the last four decades of Reconstruction Part Deux, American Christians are debating whether White supremacists are the new outsider whom they’re compelled by grace to welcome. It’s an odd scenario to represent as merely hypothetical when one […]
Don’t wait too long to do the right thing
“THE BIBLE IS CLEAR: Moabites are bad. They were not to be allowed to dwell among God’s people (Dt. 23). BUT THEN comes the story of “Ruth the Moabite,” which challenges the prejudice against Moabites. THE BIBLE IS CLEAR: People from Uz are evil (Jer. 25). BUT THEN comes the story of Job, a man […]
Reader Review #01
Posts tagged “Reader Review” include a few top articles from my weekly reading. Their topics may vary, but their quality and provocation quotient won’t. Enjoy. How Othering and Social Bias Impact Minorities’ Work Advancement Harvard Business Review: Minority Women Report Downsizing Their Ambitions Because of Bias (Jennifer Thorpe-Moscon) As Thorpe-Moscon says, “the experience of “otherness” […]
Habits of Mind
A thoughtful duo of posts from Empire Remixed’s Andrew Stephens-Rennie: A Lifetime of Habits (April 9, 2013) Idolatry & the Crisis of Being (April 11, 2013) My favorite exchange comes from the comment section: A respondent writes: Habits of living, rituals of inclusion, shape habits of reading. And Andrew replies: There is this feedback loop […]
Messages in the Web
There are very few things: there’s love and work and family. And this movie is so special to us because it was all three of those things. And I’d like to thank all of my families, the tribes that I come from. —Jodie Foster [1] At the Golden Globes earlier this year, actor Jodie Foster […]
