White Supremacy at Church?
“When this country gonna love us?” he asked. “I don’t know, bro,” I said. – Danté Stewart We don’t like talking about this subject: white supremacy at church. As a…
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Can Women Pray with Men?
+ Book Review, "The Making of Biblical Womanhood"
Should I Stay or Should I Go? The countdown has begun. In twenty minutes my doorbell will ring. Then it will be too late. I grab my husband and ask…
">Read moreAre You Going Back to Church?
Online Church Since March 2020, I haven’t been inside the building where my church meets. For a short period, they closed down. But sooner rather than later, they opened back…
Read moreIs the Church Living Up to Its Name?
When I dreamed of marrying Jeff, I practiced writing what my new name would look like: Mrs. Lisa Burgess. When a bride takes on her husband’s name, it’s symbolic of…
Read moreResist and Persist – An Important Book for Our Times
“Our brothers and sisters in the activist community have been telling us the same thing for years about our niceness. Our commitment to being nice, to just getting along, is…
Read moreUncommon Things at Church – Day 23 of Handmade
Common Most all of us have been to church before. Some of us, again and again. And so, church can become common. But occasionally, when we’re paying close attention to what…
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