Haitian immigrants and denationalized Dominicans of Haitian ancestry in the Dominican Republic are under constant threat of being deported. One news outlet reports that 114,125 Haitians have been...
In this blog, I’ve written a great deal about the embodiment of equity within the Church for believers with disabilities. I’ve written about some of my experiences of physical and intellectual...
"He took the five pieces of frybread with the two fishes and held them up to the sky. He looked up, spoke words of blessing over them, broke them into smaller pieces, and gave them to his message...
During our annual staff retreat in June 2023, we reckoned with the fact that we are each other’s neighbours. Jesus causes us to recognise the needs of others and the call to be a neighbour...
In this series on Deacons and Justice, we have looked at how structural injustice creates obstacles to creating communities of justice, and how deacons (and all Christians) work to affirm the dignity...
“You never so touch the ocean of God’s love as when you forgive and love your enemies.” Corrie ten Boom Hilary drenches Southern California with record-breaking rainfall as storm wreaks havoc The...
On the beach in Pacific Grove, CA, eight middle and high school students bend over the wet sand, digging as the wave water recedes to catch sand crabs. Blue Theology fellow Gabrielle Poli leads the...
Since 2002, I have been intimately involved with Spirit and Truth Fellowship, a CRCNA church in the North Philadelphia neighborhood of Hunting Park. Our late Pastor, Dr Manuel Ortiz, was a professor...
“God’s love is like an ocean. You can see its beginning, but not its end.” Rick Warren Thank you to everyone who contacted us last week about Do Justice prayers. We experienced technical difficulty...
“People are going to start dying soon.” Vardan Tadevosyan’s face on my computer screen is filled with worry, as he speaks to me from his office in Nagorno Karabakh. For the past eight months, he and...
“Unfathomable oceans of grace are in Christ for you. Dive and dive again, you will never come to the bottom of these depths.” - Robert Murray McCheyne Thank you to everyone who contacted us this week...
A question for you: Do you value having the right opinion over doing right by your neighbours? Or, to use the language of the ancient Hebrew prophets, do you value being right over being righteous –...