For over three decades, Sister Norma Pimentel has been at the front lines of supporting migrants who are seeking refuge at the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas. As the executive director of the Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande, Pimentel leads the efforts for emergency services, sharing baskets, clinical counseling, disaster response, homeless prevention program, and … Continue reading
During this year’s General Assembly, we hosted over twenty interviews. This week, we are featuring our conversation with: Subscribe or Livestream CBF’s podcast shares stories from across the Fellowship and innovative practices of those working to renew God’s world. The vision is to share ideas, stories, and innovations from ministers, authors, and practitioners. Join this … Continue reading
During this year’s General Assembly, we hosted over twenty inverviews. This week, we are featuring our conversation with: Subscribe or Livestream CBF’s podcast shares stories from across the Fellowship and innovative practices of those working to renew God’s world. The vision is to share ideas, stories, and innovations from ministers, authors, and practitioners. Join this … Continue reading
I’m an early riser. There is no better start to the workday than sitting in front of the desk at 6:30 a.m. with my first cup of coffee and the creative juices flowing. I have had an ever-changing relationship with work over the last decade, realizing my complete lack of boundaries and the need to … Continue reading
Is American democracy under threat from Christian Nationalists? David Gushee seems to believe so. When you are in a crisis, it’s hard to rise above it to see where we have come from, where we are, and where we need to go. It also can feel a lot bigger than it actually is. So, how … Continue reading
When Jesus said that unless we receive the Kingdom as a child, we can have no part of it, I always interpreted that as equal parts vulnerability, innocence, and curiosity. Kids ask lots of questions. Victoria Robb Powers and Cameron Mason Vickrey have coauthored a book about the many questions kids ask about God’s presence, … Continue reading
Deconstruction is one of those buzzwords. It’s either being used by those who have or are experiencing it or those that want to criticize it. The reality is that Jesus invites us to deconstruct. From a biblical perspective, isn’t Jesus’ invitation to follow him an act of ongoing deconstruction, leaving the old and discovering the … Continue reading
Boy, masculinity has been batted around by conservative Christians these days. It’s the stump talking point as yet another weapon in the arsenal of the mentality that the world is out to get Christians. Friend of the Podcast, Kristen Kobes Du Mez, has written extensively about the history of toxic masculinity within Evangelicalism over the … Continue reading
With the murder of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, among many others, the country came to this flashpoint of awakening that racism is not a past but a lived experience of black and brown people. There was so much energy and moment around real change. And then, well then, White people struck back. … Continue reading
Long before chattel slavery dominated the American South, human subjugation had been perfected by the Spanish conquest of the Mississippi Delta. The Conquistadors’ colonization, displacement, and enslavement of the Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Creek laid the foundation for the later formation of chattel slavery, post-war terrorism by the KKK, the migration of Black Americas to places … Continue reading