White cotton boll hanging from a brown stem
Cotton I picked, (c) GollyGForce

We need to see

  • Post category:From: We Confess!
  • Post last modified:November 12, 2023

Mini-post: Thought-provoking quote from We Confess! The Civil War, the South, and the Church

Closeup of the head and shoulders of a newborn infant, with his eyes closed, his left hand grasping the finger of the nurse laying him on his back, and his cheek resting in her other hand.

Life lesson

  • Post category:Living Life
  • Post last modified:March 13, 2024

Mini-post: A life lesson I learned watching my first grandchild be born.

From the cover of Pondering Privilege: White dove holds an olive branch in its beak, over the book's subtitle, "toward a deeper understanding of whiteness, race, and faith."

A call to cultural humility

This book is a call to cultural humility by a woman who writes with a lot of humility. It's a call to us who are white to press in to see that what we count "normal" may not be others' normal at all.

Path disappearing into woods, with this text: "So in the quietness they ready themselves. Together and alone Listening to the hush that is God They hear when it's time. Then they set out."

Lingering at a crossroads

  • Post category:Times and Seasons
  • Post last modified:March 13, 2024

Minipost. Encouragement sent to me from an artist friend. It begins: "Not everyone who lingers at a crossroads hesitates in indecision."

From the front cover of Forgive Us: White wooden church roof and steeple, beside names of the book's four authors: Mae Elise Cannon, Lisa Sharon Harper, Troy Jackson, Soong Chan-Rah.

Forgive us

Review of "Forgive Us: Confessions of a Compromised Faith" - a book that offers compelling histories of some of the church's greatest shortcomings, along with heartfelt confessions and reasons for hope.

Saint George and the Dragon: This medieval painting shows a white-skinned knight on horseback, slaying a dragon, to the delight of a white-skinned damsel in distress.
“The Christians of the South adopted a beguiling code of ‘chivalry’ drawn from fictional accounts of the Dark Ages. They promoted as biblical a view of women heavily influenced by Arthurian romance novels.” – We Confess

Jesus, white men and me

"White men are not the secret weapon (to dismantling injustice in the church and beyond) ... but Jesus is."

Gray striped kitten, sitting on tree branch, head lifted, eyes looking up

God who lifts up my head

Again and again, the “God who …” phrases in Scripture reveal God’s works. As we respond to our Lord deep within, receiving what he communicates Spirit-to-spirit, those phrases also reveal…