by Doug Hammack | Nov 21, 2017 | Message Audio
It’s that time of year when we remind one another of the spiritual practice of intentional stirring of gratitude. Rather than viewing gratitude as an emotional response to circumstance, we pause and notice the plenty that surrounds us. ...
by Doug Hammack | Nov 14, 2017 | Message Audio, Rethinking Race
Discovering our blind spots is a prerequisite to stepping into our role as repairers of the earth. Before we can challenge our society’s blind spots we have to challenge our own. That’s a good place to start. In this lesson we explore that — and a...
by Doug Hammack | Nov 7, 2017 | Message Audio, Rethinking Race
Today’s lesson is a personal story… Doug has been making the case in this lesson, that racial inequity is our nation’s “original sin,” and that repairing the harm it causes is our mandate as Christians. Today, he tells the story of how he...
by Doug Hammack | Nov 1, 2017 | Message Audio, Rethinking Race
How shall we be Christian? One important direction our tradition points us . . . repair broken systems that break people. We’ve been saying in this lesson: our broken systems stay broken . . . because they stay invisible. Thus this history section in our lesson...
by Doug Hammack | Oct 24, 2017 | Message Audio, Rethinking Race
History shows us how things got broken — so we know what needs to be fixed. The systems wounding our society are often invisible . . . but they roll along, year after year, consistently advantaging one group and disadvantaging another. To help us see how to...
