An excerpt from a New York Times interview with Dr. Cornel West.
What is distinctive about our moment is the relative cowardliness of the liberal and neoliberal middle. The right wing in the last 10 to 15 years has simply become more visible, but they don’t constitute the vast majority of the people. What you do have is a neoliberal and liberal center that is so weak and feeble, so cowardly and milquetoast, that they don’t have the enthusiasm or the energy that the right wing has.
You know, when I was in Charlottesville, they looked at me in the eye and I looked at them in the eye. They got their guns, their ammunition, they got their gas masks on, and we sat up there singing “This Little Light of Mine.” Continue reading “We Sat up There Singing “This Little Light of Mine””
From the Front Porch of Mother Ruby Sales (June 11, 2019).
Re-shared from Bartimeaus Cooperative’s newsletter.
By Lydia Wylie-Kellermann
By Mark Van Steenwyk of the 
From the introduction of Randy Woodley’s May 2019 Sojourners Magazine piece “
The benediction given by the Rev. Nadia Bolz-Weber at the funeral of Rachel Held Evans (re-posted by Diana Butler Bass on social media).
Pentecost, Year C
Radical Discipleship 