A truth-teller disturbs, alerts, wakens, and warns against indifference to injustice and complacency about the needs of human beings.  To be silent about injustices in this world is to be a partner with those who carry out violence and evil and corruption.

"What fanciful lives we live pretending to secure ourselves on the earth. We buy, clamor, argue our way onto foundations. We’re trained by example and presentation about our corners of truth, our pyramids of answers, our straight placements." danieljonce.com/blog/stability

We need an outpouring of the Spirit that does more than tickle our private, religious lust for more experiences. We need the kind of outpouring that empowers us with boldness to push back the powers of sin and death. #GeorgeFloyd #Pentecost

Why lament? Because often our tears serve as the impetus for a new social imagination. missioalliance.org/racial-reconci… via Missio Alliance

A very Christ-like calling out

It’s important to confront revisionist history—this is a fantastic op-ed piece from the NYT.

I am standing WITH you in LIVING the True Gospel, Beth!

These simple lifestyle tools quell anxiety and provide a quick body reset— I learned them 3 years ago from an awesome teenager who is squelching PTSD, and now from a PhD.

THIS is the True Gospel Jesus is compelling is to imitate. Let’s go tribe!

If you’re following God and haven’t lost much of what you’ve been holding on to - follow a little closer.

Christian leaders continue to crash and burn. Immaturity thrives when we fail to learn relational skills, dismiss the need for healing, and do not return to joy from shame. We must ask ourselves, “Can others point out to me I have a problem?” Embrace criticism as an opportunity.

We can bond with others out of fear or out of joy and love. When fear, we become focused on pleasing others. Our job is to be found faithful to God with what we have been given, not to avoid upsetting people. There is freedom and peace when we are the people God created us to be.

Out of the chaos and dysfunction of American Christianity, God the Holy Spirit is raising up a "love your enemies, justice-seeking, Pro-All of life, multiethnic missionary community of disciples. Like a rose growing through the concrete. And she will be beautiful.

As far as your brain is concerned, healing happens when we can connect with our people, we quiet strong reactions, we return to joy from negative emotions, we figure out who we are under these conditions, then we develop a narrative to make some sense out of the difficulty.

THIS is Jesus: provision AND community as a LIFESTYLE. Every day!

I see you J.D. Greear ✝️👊🏿🙏🏿 We should mourn when closet racists and neo-Confederates feel more at home in our churches than do many of our people of color,” he said. religionnews.com/2021/02/22/sbc…

The Church was never called to be the moral police of the world, culture warriors, or the endorsers of any political powers, but to be ambassadors of the Kingdom of heaven. It's high time we put away our swords and got back on mission & message. Break out the Good News my friends

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Sonja Piper Dosti, APR White Horse Inn Here's an archived version of it. It's no longer available on their website since they took it down. web.archive.org/web/2020092720…

Whites, no matter where you are, please take the time to read this...and choose to enter into the extreme weight of all of the decades and centuries of this (privilege noted).