Resistance Is Necessary

Saving What’s Important

Category: race matters

  • We Need to Reign In Deadly Force…

    There has been some interesting news lately regarding the rash of police shootings of citizens that plagued our country in 2015. In a study of Chicago police and a wider…


  • “How To Figure Out Anything (About Ethics)”

    Editor’s note: Every once in awhile, I have a sermon that expresses an important (to me) theological point. This is one of those. The beginning piece is from the morning’s…


  • This S— Has Got To Stop. It Just Does.

    Today, more people died in a school massacre. I don’t need to publish the date, because — unless we do something NOW that first sentence will still be appropriate. Apparently,…


  • Reforming our Justice System: What It Should Look Like

    Yesterday, some sheriff said that “Sandra Bland” wasn’t a model person/prisoner. Instead of getting a trial, she got killed. It doesn’t matter whether it’s Sandra Bland or anyone else (unless,…


  • Who Are The Police Responsible To?

    “Jesus called them and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones are tyrants over them.  It will not be so…


  • From Jesus to St Francis to Jeff Brown — Ministry Where The Action Is

    In one of those “small world” stories, I went to a conference with my wife where we had dinner with the chaplain (Rev. Jon Scott) that was there at the…


  • The Lessons of History?

    “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” — George Santayana. “Head-desk” — a UCC Minister It’s the 50th anniversary of the March in Selma, Alabama, a…


  • Reminders from “Selma”

    It has been a long time since I was at seminary and a long time since I had a congregation to lead, which required spiritual time and Bible study, so…


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