I’m not a dispensationalist. I’m not a fundamentalist. I’m not an evangelical.
But time and again, as I move through this oral exam we call “life,” I look up from my own desk, and across the room see these types…
Read moreI’m not a dispensationalist. I’m not a fundamentalist. I’m not an evangelical.
But time and again, as I move through this oral exam we call “life,” I look up from my own desk, and across the room see these types…
Read moreI voted for Ronald Reagan twice to be president.
The next time I could vote, I voted for Jesse Jackson.
If I was to write the long story of my spiritual, social, and political transformation in two sentences, that would…
Read more“Remember this day, for there will be many more bad days to come.”
That is the primary word I spoke to a crowd gathered in Hutchins tonight, following today’s stunning reversal that Majestic Reality will not sell or lease its…
Read more“This is new...”
This is also “old,” in that American police have been militarizing for decades.
But both the scale, and the methods of how this administration is swiftly creating an unaccountable mega-police force on the streets of America...
This…
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Get more from Eric Folkerth in the Substack app Available for iOS and Android … Read moreYesterday, I heard more than one pundit marvel at the fact that Brandi Carlile, who openly identifies as queer, sang “American The Beautiful.” The suggestion was that this was groundbreaking.
And, it was.
But perhaps some have forgotten…
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Get more from Eric Folkerth in the Substack app Available for iOS and Android Get the appSome portion of my faith in America got restored last night.
And it happened at a city council meeting.
You read that right…a city council meeting had me driving home more hopeful in the promise of America than I’ve been…
Read moreSunday will be “week two” of our four-week series on “The New United Methodist Church.”
We’re focusing on our new denominational vision statement:
Love Boldly
Serve Joyfully
Lead Courageously
This week’s theme is “Love Boldly.”
#loveboldly
What does it mean…
America,
In the name of God, here is the moral juxtaposition I call you to sit with today. This is the moral choice before us today.
This is the moral fight before us.
Yes, there are other fights to mount…
What I saw, watching the videos today.
This morning, we awake to our sitting president, threatening to unleash a 215 year old “insurrection act” on our nation.
We need to understand two things:
1. This is what he wants to do. And this is his strategy to…
Yesterday, many of you read my colleague Mara Richards Bim piece about the proposed human warehouse in Hutchins, Texas.
Here is her piece about the known plans.
Today, I’m just reposting the link to the CLEARDFW statement about all this…
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Get more from Eric Folkerth in the Substack app Available for iOS and Android … Read moreMonday morning prayer vigil at Dallas ICE.
Today: Thoughts about Renee Good and the planned detention center in Dallas County.