Choosing Which God (or Beliefs) You Will Serve

It’s a long way in the biblical narrative from Joshua to Simon Peter. Yet, it was only a week between sermons on these men nearly 60 years ago as churches in the Atlanta area were facing the challenges of the escalating resistance to court-ordered requirements...

Lynchings, Nooses and the Violence of Silence

Novelist James Baldwin looked down at the red clay hills of Georgia and thought “that this earth had acquired its color from the blood that dripped down from the trees.” That lynching is a part of America’s troubled history cannot be overstated and...

Speak and Live as if Easter is Always Upon You

The Gospel of Matthew tells two stories that juxtapose the responses of those who look upon the death of Jesus and those who will see the resurrected Christ. The Roman guards are terrified twice over: at Christ’s death and at the angel’s announcement of...