The justice system should not be institutionalized meanness.

Where social ideologies of racial, religious and sectarian prejudices flood our media and the conversations around us, Oh God turn up the...

This is an excerpt from a book of short mediations that I am currently writing. -Floyd Thompkins Edited by T. Lai Hope peeks out from...

Edited by T. Lai There is a difference between ignorance and willful ignorance. Ignorance is simply a lack of knowledge. It can be...

Edited by T. Lai As an African American Christian, I and others have been the object of the misuse of scriptures. Scriptures have been...

With the sound of fireworks in the background, the smell of barbecue filling the atmosphere, and the relief of vacations looming in our...

Edited by T Lai Now Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking Isaac. 10 Therefore she said to...

This Sunday we will invite you to share the names of graduates in the chat and we will read them out loud. But today we invite you to...

Written in consultation with the pastors of Marin County ( Rev. Dr. Ronald Leggett, Bishop Johnathan D. Logan, Sr, Rev. Marcus Small, and...

Edited by T. Lai Think about Peter, Jesus’ disciple. Think of the women who braved ridicule to be the first steadfast evangelists (Heed...

Edited by T Lai “The women’s story seemed like nonsense.” (Luke 24:11) The gospel writers wrote that the women who tended to the tomb,...

Be a Witness of Courage! I may have too harshly judged the disciples because they did not show up at the crucifixion. But now– watching...

As we gather in the shadow of Easter, we have to admit that the image and message of Jesus has morphed into something that many of us do...

It is a sad spectacle to witness a nation engaged in the exercise of assessing the events in Atlanta, GA as racist or not. His veracity...

I get it now. I now understand how a church can reject a person because that person does not conform to its ideal of the human life...

We are being suffocated by lies, deceit, political incompetency and spiritual hypocrisy. We are being drained by the effort that it takes...