The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks
Randall Robinson is a gifted lawyer and public intellectual and has made a compelling case in this book for addressing the unfinished task of compensating the victims of American slavery. Robinson doesn’t simply parrot the prevailing opinions of those who write about race in America, but in his own reflective way says about the same …
“Just Mercy:” A Searing Story of Cruelty and Grace
This post reviews the movie, “Just Mercy,” and compares it to the book of the same name. Movie-goers who find the movie to be a moving experience will find extensive notes and chapter summaries here.
Global Warming Through the Eyes of the Old Testament Prophets
The Old Testament prophets can be very useful in shining a light on the current climate crisis which threatens human existence as we know it. While they might see global warming as a result of human greed and injustice, they also call people to act decisively to change their priorities and to help those affected by fire, flood, and food shortages.
The World-Saving Power of One Person
Genesis 6.5-8.22 We take our lesson today from the early chapters of Genesis. We’re in the part where God is creating and we’re learning things about God, things about ourselves, and things about the world. By the sixth chapter, which introduces Noah and the Flood, we’ve just got the world set up. The first birds …
The Theological Structure of the World
This essay is a study of a fundamental conflict in the Old Testament, namely the struggle between the Creator God and Chaos. This post is an expansion on the material presented at one class in the course titled: “Climate Change Through the Eyes of Hope.”
Six Reasons Why Evangelicals Don’t Believe in Climate Change
The epicenter of worldwide climate change denial is in the American Deep South among evangelical Republicans. There’s irony in this. Republicans appear to have abandoned their own history of leadership in the conservation movement in the US. The GOP is bringing up the rear in response to the supreme ecological crisis in history. Even more …
How Racism Gets Started and Doesn’t Stop
This infographic is my attempt to simplify how racist ideas get started and then become embedded in culture. They work to justify injustices such as slavery or mass incarceration and to support White dominance. The ideas here came from Ibram Kendi’s Stamped from the Beginning and Robin Diangelo’s White Fragility. Racism is a social construct, …
