How Your Congregation Can Encourage Diversity

by | Mar 23, 2015 | Opinion

Ongoing discussions following the release of the Department of Justice report on the behaviors and actions perpetrated by the police and courts of Ferguson, Missouri, reveal that our nation is divided along multiple lines. Religious and civil rights leaders of all...

Why Churches Must Assist in Ferguson’s Healing

by | Feb 26, 2015 | Opinion

Community relations have changed since Michael Brown was shot and killed by Officer Darren Wilson more than six months ago. There has been an increase in discussions about how police patrol urban communities. There has also been open dialogue about race, white...

I was a teenage racist.

by | Jan 19, 2015 | Opinion

I’m not proud of having been a young racist. I’d have had a better excuse if I had been a teenage werewolf, but I can’t blame prejudice on genetics. I could blame it on lots of things. In the time and place of my childhood and adolescence, I...