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The sin of the community
Buried in the “flyover country” of the Pentateuch are laws regarding community responsibility when an unsolved murder took place.
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Book Review: The Myth of the American Dream by D.L. Mayfield
The Myth of the American Dream by D.L. Mayfield For the past 3-4 years I have had a book on my heart to write. Not ever having done a writing project, and being deathly afraid of critiques, I took notes, blogged a bit, preached a series with the beginning ideas of the book, and generally avoided doing more.
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Major shifts are magnified in the time of coronavirus
We are in the midst of the most widespread societal upheaval that many people alive today have ever experienced. Already our institutions, habits, relationships, and culture are shifting before our eyes. Frank M. Snowden, author of Epidemics and Society, shared with the New Yorker, “Epidemics are a category of disease that seem to hold up the mirror to human beings…
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It’s back to the gym … after 8 weeks
Me headed into the gym after 8 weeks off: Me in the gym 15 minutes later:
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The church as recovery group
D.L. Mayfield’s new book, The Myth of the American Dream, is timely. There is a lot of gold in this book and I will do a review later on. But this quote is incredible: My husband likes to say that we need the church to be our recovery group; we need it to be a place where we can share…
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Grief Spoken — the lynching of Ahmaud Arbery
Kirk Franklin adds his voice to the lynching of Ahmaud Arbery.
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DO “Black Lives Matter?” A reprise
TRIGGER WARNING: (As if you weren’t already warned in the title of the post.) If you thought the arrest of the two men who lynched Ahmaud Arbery was enough… the end… then you need to stop RIGHT HERE and move on to other things. My lament continues. There are things to still talk about. Things we, as whites, need to…
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Why we must persist concerning injustice — Ahmaud Arbery
FAIR WARNING DISCLAIMER: I am not done in the process of lament concerning the lynching of Ahmaud Arbery. I am FAR from done as to action that needs to be taken when it comes to our utter blindness over racism in our country. You’ve been warned. I saw a quick exchange between two African American pastors on Twitter I needed…
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Injustice in the time of coronavirus
A couple of days in lament isn’t going to cool me off when it comes to injustice. SOOOO… here is your warning. I will keep going on matters of racism and injustice for a bit. It is out of lament. It is out of a deep hunger to get our souls bared before the Righteous Judge… and maybe get us…
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The longing for justice in the time of coronavirus
I am still processing through the lynching of Ahmaud Arbery. (The story is HERE if you haven’t yet seen or heard.) There is mourning and lament. There is a deeper call of the Spirit to keep stepping up… a journey I have been on for several years now. A journey to be anti-racist.
