Oh Creator, Jehovah, Yahweh, God, Lord, whoever you are Are you the God of the lynchers or the lynched? The oppressors or the oppressed? The slavers or the enslaved? I sat in church and I heard about the sanctity of life and the firstborn of Egypt condemned to death and there were no tears for …
Category: Culture
Jesus and John Wayne
When I started reading Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation, by Dr. Kristin Kobes Du Mez, I expected to find the book deeply interesting. What I did not expect was that I would devour the book in three days, that every reading would be undergirded by a …
The Social Dilemma
Sunday night I watched the new Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma. It was the same kind of experience which I imagine someone who drinks 36 ounces of Diet Coke every day would have watching a documentary about aspartame. I think most of us know, at some level, that social media is addictive, that behind the …