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Inhale the beauty of God’s holiness and the depth of God’s excellence. Exhale the doubt and the need to be in control…and rest in the only Arms that can keep us intact in the midst of a very broken world.
The Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference, Inc. (SDPC) was a participant and partner in the event, along with the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), conducting a service of consecration as a part of its “Sacred Memory Project” which has recently been launched.
Since its inception in 2010, Green The Church has brought together more than 400 Black Churches with three goals: 1) Amplify Green Theology, 2) Promote Sustainable Practices, and 3) Build Power for Change
When prophetic rhetoric is not connected to just actions as concrete praxis, the preacher can become much like a social justice avatar—like an online freedom fighter who advocates for justice one click at a time but never engages in the battle for equality offline.
We must all marvel at the fact that in spite of that, people continue to be born, to fight against evil and sometimes push through it. People continue to birth new beauty of their own human spirits in spite of being taunted and pulled by evil, God notwithstanding.
Sexual assault breeds a culture that normalizes women being objectified, demeaned, and unsafe at the pleasure of men. It is a violation beyond imagination that ruptures if not shatters a woman’s body and spirit.
In order to reduce the amount of evil in the world, in order to alleviate suffering of God’s people, in order to make the “goodness” of God felt, religious people would have to stop being “religious,” stop being thinkers about God and instead become practitioners of the will of God.
Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II - holds press conference at the North Carolina General Assembly, less than a mile away Rev. Franklin Graham held a prayer rally on the grounds of the State Capitol.
According to the ACLU, police used data from Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram to track protests in Ferguson and Baltimore following the deaths of Mike Brown and Freddie Gray.
Every time I think about how autumn is a season of mercy, a season of healing, a season of strengthening, getting rid of the old to make way for the new, I smile.
