Perpetual War
One Book One Diocese Lenten Study The Episcopal Diocese of Indianapolis is reading the same book together for Lent. Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God by Kelly Brown Douglas. We’re...
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In the fourth chapter of Stand Your Ground, Douglas explores the nature of God as freedom revealed in the exodus and manifest in the gospel. Photo by Jonas Ferlin from Pexels. The story of the exodus...
View ArticleBelieving in the Justice of God
One Book One Diocese Lenten Study The Episcopal Diocese of Indianapolis is reading the same book together for Lent. Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God by Kelly Brown Douglas. We’re...
View ArticleLiving into God’s Time
One Book One Diocese Lenten Study The Episcopal Diocese of Indianapolis is reading the same book together for Lent. Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God by Kelly Brown Douglas. We’re...
View ArticleHow to summarize a time of great division
Kelly Brown Douglas confronts the history which not only brought us Stand Your Ground laws, but undergirds a constant struggle for continued oppression. Photo by Jonas Ferlin from Pexels. This Lent,...
View ArticleUnearthing Whiteness
The greatest challenge to race relations in the US is whiteness. Not in skin color, but the belief that European cultural roots are fundamentally better. Photo by nicholas hatherly from Pexels Part 1...
View ArticleRacism
Photo by Kenny Eliason on Unsplash Racism is evil. Without question. Or apprehension. Episode 47 of the Make Saints podcast: “Racism” the episode script A story broke last week about severe acts of...
View ArticleIt’s still about race — MLK Day isn’t the end
Photo by Rafaele Nicolussi on Unsplash The holiday doesn’t mark an end to racism. It reminds us of its consistency. It is far too easy to speak of racism in such terms. That, because there is a Martin...
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