Sunday 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.
This week, authoritarian-directed agents killed the “good” in a Minneapolis neighborhood.
Renee GoodBut the Good News is: there is “good” in every neighborhood in America; which is why so many of us recoil from this event, whatever our personal…
Read moreAs a pastor, today’s shooting of an American citizen feels like a completely predictable result of the next three thoughts:
1. The militarization of American policing. We don’t have to recount that history again. But it’s been happening for a…
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Get more from Eric Folkerth in the Substack app Available for iOS and Android … Read moreOne of my favorite films is “The Shawshank Redemption.” And as the year “turns,” I am thinking about that film, about its lead character, and about a concept I write about almost every year at this time: “Resolve to Not…
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Get more from Eric Folkerth in the Substack app Available for iOS and Android Get the appThank you to everyone who tuned into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app.
Get more from Eric Folkerth in the Substack app Available for iOS and Android Get the appOf all the Christmas music I’ve ever put out there, I remain most proud of this video.
It’s a mash up of the dissonant messages in our American culture about: “PEACE.”
America is a great Empire, and in every generation…
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