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‘Braving the Truth: Essential Essays for Reckoning with and Reimagining Faith’
In a new posthumous collection of her essays, friends of writer Rachel Held Evans reflect on her work. Theologian Candice Marie Benbow shares thoughts in this excerpt on feminism and allyship.
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Candice Marie Benbow
Author
The limits of hope and the promise of joy
In an excerpt from his new book, “Ancestors: Those Who Bless Us, Curse Us and Hold Us,” an AME pastor writes about the church as inherently political and why we cannot wait on God for change.
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William H. Lamar IV
Pastor, Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church
Lessons from Minneapolis for people of faith
A United Methodist pastor in Minneapolis emphasizes the importance of faith communities’ public ministry during a surge of immigration enforcement in his city.
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Tyler Sit
Pastor and author
Clergy from across the country respond to opportunities for solidarity and learning in Minneapolis
A multifaith coalition invited religious leaders to come together and bear witness to the crisis started by Operation Metro Surge.
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Dana Neuhauser
Organizer and deacon
One day in the ministry of pastors in Minneapolis
Two Lutheran pastors in Minneapolis are providing for congregants’ needs and trying to hold onto joy amid the daily chaos and terror.
Martin Luther King Jr. is a hero who was also human
The people we admire must reflect a faithful commitment to ongoing spiritual formation despite their flaws. That is more important than perfection, a Methodist pastor writes.
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Justin Coleman
Senior pastor, University United Methodist Church
My New Year’s resolution? Take more risks
In a world that is volatile, uncertain, chaotic and ambiguous, it’s important to keep learning. But that means taking risks.
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Chris Aho
Church leadership consultant
Embracing a fruitless season
A writer adapts the church traditions of his childhood in Montserrat, where fruit and flowers decorate the sanctuaries, to his life in the United States
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Andrew J. Skerritt
Writer
I was slammed to the ground and arrested outside an ICE facility. It was a holy experience.
Internment sites are being operated across the country, writes a Chicago pastor. What we do with this knowledge tells us everything about the Christians we are.
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Michael Woolf
Senior minister, Lake Street Church of Evanston
Fear, anger and protest: A look inside the immigration crackdown in New York City
Photojournalist Carol Guzy and the Rev. Fabián Arias are regularly in the halls of the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building, which has become a center for detaining immigrants who appear for their court cases.
