This year, during March and for Lent, I am choosing to remember and study women in particular. Women have been key characters, sages, and figures in scripture and in our faith communities that have inspired us to greater faith, courage, deeper learning, and hope. Perhaps you will join me in this practice this month?
Read moreCharlottesville—Our American Baptist Witness
In witnessing the actions too horrible to comprehend, and impossible to stop considering, thinking and feeling people have needed to ask ourselves, who are we really, as a country—and as a people residing on the same soil? Our incomplete historical memories are infused with mythology and aspirations of who we are. Have we forgotten who we really have been historically, and replaced it with who we want to be as a nation and as a people of this nation? Who we say we are, and who want to be are not necessarily the same.
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