Tagged March 2016

This edition of Connections is about reconciliation, looked at from various angles. All the stories and testimonies presented here center on overcoming separation, enmity and prejudice within the framework of C...

I’m embarrassed to admit that I’ve spent most of my professional life stereotyping people. Of course, we didn’t call it stereotyping. We called it market segmentation. You and I have been grouped into so many m...

Presiding Bishop Michael Curry recently said, “One of the most important statements of our time was given by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., when he said we must learn to live together as brothers and sisters or w...

The priest rises from his wheelchair and balances just so, holding on to a handle added to the back of the wooden altar by a loving congregation. “How appropriate, holding on to the altar for dear life,” the...

  Growing up with red hair and freckles in the early 1970s, I am no stranger to being “the other.” While now there seems to be an abundance of ginger kids running around, back in the day I felt like a f...

St Paul reminds us that the Church is one body with many parts and all of the parts are essential. To live in Christian community for any extended period of time means that eventually we are going to step on pe...

I spend much of my time on the road, speaking to large audiences. Since Charleston, I promised myself that I’d bring up race and white privilege as often as possible. I do it awkwardly and imperfectly, but I do...