"Where Faith Matters Today…and Always!"
I, Racist What follows is the beginning of the text of a congregational reflection given by John Metta at Bethel Congregational United Church of Christ on June 28 to an all white audience. The sermon was begun with a reading of the Good Samaritan story, and a quote from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. The text continues: […]
photo credit: emilycheath.com Rev. Emily C. Heath Clergy, United Church of Christ My wife and I have a joke. We tell it when we are out in public, at an airport or a restaurant or concert, and I need to use the bathroom. When I stand up to find a restroom I say to her, […]
When Christians Won’t Say #BlackLivesMatter Kevin Wright Kevin Wright currently serves as the Minister of Education at The Riverside Church in the City of New York …[M]any Christians hesitate or refuse to say #BlackLivesMatter when one would think that their affinity for a marginalized Jewish man who preached a message of good news for the […]
Touré Author of “Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness? What It Means To Be Black Now” We should just call it what it is: Donald Trump is the leader of the White Lives Matter movement. Someone had to start it — they were gettin’ out of control. First, one of them became president and […]
The Oppressed Majority: A Poignant French Short Film about a World in Which Men Are Subject to Sexism by Maria Popova A tragicomic day in the life of a man who struggles for equality in a mirror-image society dominated by women. “Those who travel with the current will always feel they are good swimmers,” NPR […]