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 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…
Read moreThis right here…
This is what I’ve been saying for 30 years.
No, I’m not kidding.
I’ve reminded folks that we mainlines have always tracked more “moderate to progressive” than evangelical churches or many others.
(Be sure and throw in…
There’s a floorboard creak in the threshold to our bedroom I am thinking about today. It’s one, very specific, floorboard; and it’s one, very specific, “creak.”
This creak sounds —for both Dennise and me— every time our feet cross the…
Read moreTrump has used drug interdiction to justify any number of bogus and…ahem… trumped up stuff.
— The border wall.
— The currently massive number of ice detentions of innocent persons who have no law enforcement “encounters,” much less “criminal records.”…
There isn’t now…now has there been for a long time…a “right way” for migrants to move through our immigration system.
Those who support Trump’s harmful and racist immigration crackdowns continue to tell me: “They just need to do it…
Read moreWith so much genuine trauma and horror happening in our world, it feels almost wrong to celebrate. But we United Methodists ARE celebrating amongst ourselves, this afternoon.
We are celebrating the passage of four needed “Constitutional Amendments” that complete our…
Read more“Since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses…”
The saints most definitely swirled about me on All Saints Day. And on Halloween too. And on Sunday. Frankly all weekend.
First, on All Saints Day itself, I went…
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