Pharoah Did it First
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Pharoah Did it First

For Black women, these state-forced pregnancies can be deadly. Because of implicit bias in health care, Black women still receive prenatal care at lower rates and are still more likely to die during and after childbirth than every other race. The Dobbs decision ignores the possibility of harm. It ignores the impact of Black maternal mortality on the future of the Black community. It ignores the lack of access to adequate health care and the possibility that Black mothers who choose to opt out of dangerous hospital births risk losing their children to the foster care system. Like Pharoah, the Supreme Court’s decision willfully disregards the suffering of the least of these for the sake of preserving the power of the state, for the sake of preserving white Christian nationalism.

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Wolves, Lambs, and Lions … oh my!
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Wolves, Lambs, and Lions … oh my!

Isaiah 65:17-25 is not the hope for the obliteration of differences, where the oppressor and oppressed might co-exist. The fantasy of the white liberal - that sees the fight for the sovereignty of Black lives on the same binary plane as white supremacy - that recreates the text to suggest that those who suffer might make room for those who caused the suffering is anti-Biblical and, frankly, idolatry.

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God’s Coming Out
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God’s Coming Out

Coming Out: the radical act of self-disclosure, telling on one’s self, emerging from unknown to being known. God did it first. God comes out. Theological reflections on and for National Coming Out Day.

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I Saw Jude
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I Saw Jude

“I had a dream and I think I saw Jude.”
Then I read what he had to say. I think I see Jude. I think I’ve heard him speak. I think I’ve seen the ones he was speaking of and I think I know the ones in his audience.
The wind blew… and I saw Jude.

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On Cloaks and Freedom
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On Cloaks and Freedom

It’s Palm Sunday. Take your cloak off. Twist it around your hand, wave it like a helicopter …. or whatever Mark said.

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Death Becomes Us
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Death Becomes Us

Death is not the absence of life. It’s part of living.
Death is not an evil, abhorrent interruption of the natural order. It’s a necessary component for nature to exist.

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So Clean
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So Clean

Nothing that God made is unclean.

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It Ain’t New
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It Ain’t New

“We gotta stop theologizing like we're in a vacuum and just happened to come upon this idea that existed for the first time ever when we saw it.”

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No Asterisks.
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No Asterisks.

Nothing can separate us from God’s love. Nothing. Without exception. Nothing.

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