Book Review: I’m Black. I’m Christian. I’m Methodist
Tori C. Butler is Black. She’s Young. She is a Woman. And She’s Grieved. This is the title to her chapter in a book edited by Rudy Rasmus called I’m […]
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Reading Making Paper Cranes: Toward an Asian American Feminist Theology by Mihee Kim-Kort A Decade Later
As I was reading Making Paper Cranes by Rev. Mihee Kim-Kort, I found myself feeling simultaneously exposed and held by her analysis and critique of the “both and” world that […]
Commemorating 1619: On Naming Slavery in Worship
The act of worshipping together as a community—of being not just in physical proximity, but spiritual proximity—sometimes feels like a miracle. As a pastor responsible for planning and leading worship, […]
#ReadFewerWhiteDudes
Two years ago, my good friend from seminary, Casey Kloehn, wrote this blog post inviting others to join in her reading challenge to #readfewerwhitedudes. It was one of those Holy […]
I’m Still Here: A Review
Austin Channing Brown’s I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness was released this year and I commend it to you. Brown’s memoir is essential reading. Especially Christians who are […]
The Messiness of Microaggressions
1 Corinthians 12:12, 26 NRSV For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it […]
A Litany Against White Supremacy
As Charlottesville, VA becomes the focal point of white supremacy and those who stand against it, this litany was prepared by myself and Pastor Elizabeth Rawlings for use in worship. […]
The Power of Words
Rev. Molly F. James, PhD Christ Church Cathedral, Hartford, CT August 20, 2017, Proper 15A Romans 11:1-2a, 29-32; Matthew 15: (10-20), 21-28 May God’s Word be spoken. May God’s Word […]
Out of the Human Heart
What comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart. In the name of God: the Source of Life, the Word of Love, and the Spirit of Truth. Amen. On […]
Dear Church: It’s Time to Get Out of the Boat
The theologian Karl Barth was known to have said that preachers should write their sermons with the Bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other. If he were […]
