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In her sermon, “Prophets for a New Day,” the late Rev. Dr. Katie Geneva Cannon writes that from time to time, we have to take a “spiritual inventory;” i.e., we must review what we are doing and if what we are doing is the will of God.
Sometimes, we struggle with believing in the capacity of humans to transcend obstacles which pop up in the journey of life.
In his 1992 book, Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism, the late legal scholar Derrick Bell, the first tenured professor at Harvard Law School who gave up his position to protest that institution’s hiring practices, presents an intriguing story.
In spite of the power and necessity of the “MeToo” movement, I have found that I am wrestling with what Dr. Martin Luther King called “unconscious bitterness” toward white women.
To love takes work; we must begin by going within ourselves and allowing God to purge us of the fears we have.
God is good, we say. Even when we risk opening our eyes, God is forever good.
Yes, Wakanda is a fictional place and “Black Panther” is “just” a film, but the spiritual imagination that undergirds the movie can be an opportunity for learning, and even a fostering of faith in the idea that we can build a better world, if we are willing.
Aching hearts compel us to let go of what we cannot take anymore and work for what we thought we would never have.
Activist, scholar Teresa Smallwood leads Public Theology & Racial Justice Collaborative @VUDivinity
There are times when the personal suffering endured by people is so immense, so deep, that it violates our limited capacity to comprehend.
