It's Not That Hard To Say Slavery

Perhaps There Is No More Dangerous Place For A Christian To Be Than In Safety And Comfort, Detached From The Suffering Of Others.

I Moved To Philadelphia To Go To School At Eastern Partly Because I Wanted To Study The Bible And I Also Went To Study Sociology. I Like How Karl Barth Said We Have To Read The Bible In One Hand And The Newspaper In The Other So That Our Faith Doesn't Just Become A Ticket Into Heaven And A License To Ignore The World Around Us.

We're Remembering Each Other's Heroes, Too. We Are Learning Each Other's Songs. We Are Reminding Ourselves That We Are A Global Family Praying Together. We're All Trying To Live In The Light Of The History That Shines Through The Biblical Narrative.

It's Not That Hard To Say Slavery Is Wrong After We've Abolished It.

There Is Extreme Poverty In Appalachia, Where I Was, And Increasingly Poverty Is Not Just An Urban Thing.