No one likes to be wrong but not being willing to admit you've messed up signals to me that either you're insecure or don't trust your community.
Both are problems.
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There are things we love or hate about Christianity that still feel to dangerous to explore or even think about because we've not been given tools to do grief navigation or be honest due to our pain.
I feel this is where my work comes in….
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Church planting - much like its residential counterpart - is a form of gentrification that reshapes a community that already had culture, texture, beauty, ideologies, priorities, values, and theologies based on a vision that is usually not cast by someone from that hood.
Read MoreI've often said we can all do something good in the world with what we have and Chadwick used his skill as an actor and charisma as a person to make things that gave and will give generations of us something to press toward and believe in.
Read MoreWhether it's happening to us, is happening to others, or it happened in the past, we need to scream from the rooftops that someone's #SufferingIsNotABlessing.
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There’s a WHOLE lot of life that happened for me between 12 and 30. As a 32-year-old Black American pansexual pastors kid from Queens with a super blended, sorta complex, multicultural, sociopolitically diverse family, there are *stories* I can tell you. Knowing this leaves me wondering what Jesus’ life looked like during this period. All we know is what Luke 2:52 says. “Jesus increased in wisdom and in years, and in divine and human favor.”
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With that mighty windAnd energy like wildfireThe Spirit of God burned down partitions of differenceLending presence,Making clear that we are all the children of divinityMaking space for our worship in temples, in the wild, and in common places.Making room for us.
Read MoreThis Palm Sunday I'm pushed to consider all those who weren't in the streets then and who can't be present for our protests now because whether or not they show up their lives, interests, and liberation still matters.
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