HeyJaredTravels with Charlie by Michael Granzen
On seeking freedom, compassion, and justice in a time of reckoning. Charlie means freedom. In his eyes you could see “the whole creation groaning in longing for adoption, for transformation…”
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Leadership. Liberation. Justice. (opens the original)
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A Prayer For Friday (opens the original)
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Love and Murder in Mississippi (opens the original)
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Note: Brooks Smith is a salty Presbyterian (USA) minister and friend. He is a longtime pastor in North Plainfield, Rahway, and Bound Brook, co-leader of thirteen mission trips to Nicaragua and Haiti, and Finance Chair for El Centro Hispano Americano in Plainfield. He is also what Vincent Harding calls a “Veteran of Hope.” In 1963 while an undergraduate at Wesleyan University he heard Martin Luther King Jr. speak at his school. This inspired him to volunteer with the Mississippi Freedom Summer Pr
Disruptive Christian Ethics (opens the original)
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Note: With the resurgence of white racism, misogyny, and cruel nihilism in the United States—escalated by a post-post-civil rights White House, Supreme Court, Congress, and rise of MAGA— the fallen powers must be unmasked and resisted with wild perseverance and radical Love. Here is a strong word on the struggle for racial justice by Traci C. West, my former Ph.D. advisor in Religion and Society at Drew University. It was my colleague Jacqui Lewis who first introduced me to her. During graduate
Availability (opens the original)
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Note: I first met the writer Daniel Cattau at Coleman Brown’s Memorial Service in 2015 and we have since become good friends. I’m envious that he spoke with Coleman once a month for several decades. Like Coleman he’s from the upper Midwest, extremely intelligent, but with a wicked sense of humor. Dan has overcome extraordinary adversity in his life, which he rarely talks about. Recently he helped develop and edit the Pulitzer Prize– winning biography King: A Life by Jonathan Eig. Irene Brown had
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