Identifying Spiritual Abuse
Today, it is darkly comedic, the irony of this moment. At the time, it was crushing. Who was I to propose such a thing? Had I witnessed any of what I thought I’d witnessed?
Silence: The Facilitator of Clergy Abuse
The epidemic of clergy misconduct is not only the abuse itself, but the Silence that enables the abuse to continue to exponentially harm people. While perpetrators will always exist, the damage they do can be diminished and halted with a way to break through the Silence that protects power.
#MoralWitnessWednesday: A Call to Prayer and Prophetic Action
We have a moral obligation to publicly confront the abuse and call our elected leaders to repentance.
Grieving, But Not Leaving, the United Methodist Church
The wise never make a decision when under duress. Time will tell. We will see what unfolds.
How Many, Lord?
As people of faith, we affirm that the system of justice can and should be blind.
King’s Poor People’s Campaign Lives Again
“We want to build sufficient power to bend the moral arc of this nation out of this poverty rut into the land of plenty,”
Will America Pick Up Its Cross?
Today the colonizing spirit leads Christian conferences to flash all (or nearly all) white speaker lineups without a blush, promote white worship music as the gold Christian standard around the world, and build mega churches in the mold of mega malls and amusement parks that serve hundreds of thousands music and scripture disconnected from parishioners’ local contexts and needs.
Keep Standing Up for Health Care: It’s Personal
Someone else’s mom needs cancer medicine. Someone else’s dad has diabetes. Someone’s baby will die without health care.
#BlackClergyUprising: A ‘Call to Action’ Against the ACA Repeal & Trump Budget
If there was a time for Black clergy to march, it was now.
BREAKING: Christians Unite In Direct Action to Oppose the ‘Better Care Reconciliation Act’
Through a series of actions, clergy and moral activists will speak out — and risk arrest through civil disobedience — to demonstrate moral dissent over the health bill under consideration in the Senate.