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Point/Counterpoint: Black Lives Matter isn’t a civil rights offshoot

People march in a Black Lives Matter rally in Oklahoma City, Sunday, July 10, 2016. Police estimated the crowd at the rally as 2,000 to 2,500 people. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki) During a Black Lives Matter protest in Dallas– in response…

Derryck GreenJuly 25, 2016

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Injustice “Solidarity” on Display at Fuller; Crime Victims, Abortion Violence Ignored

The standard and accepted practice in response to social tragedies, “injustices,” or the real presence and consequences of evil, has been a kind of self-reverential activism that includes hashtags and virtue-signaling that are exchanged for but reflective of moral indignation.…

Derryck GreenJuly 12, 2016

Religion

Christian Dating Site Forced to Include Same-Sex Searches

The march of the LGBT totalitarians through our cultural institutions continues. The latest example of the erosion of religious liberty comes as a judge recently ruled that the owners of Christian online dating service ChristianMingle.com, Spark Networks Inc., must begin…

Derryck GreenJuly 5, 2016

Culture Race

Jesse Williams, the #BETawards and Self-Congratulatory, Blame-Whitey Victimology

What would an awards show be without a black award recipient taking the time to energize the viewing audience by basking in the collective black identity of being the perennial victim of anti-black racism? Possibly an awards show actually worth…

Derryck GreenJune 30, 2016

Islamic Terrorism Politics

Sorry, Jen Hatmaker: Christians Aren’t Complicit in Orlando

Since ISIS-sympathizer Omar Mateen murdered 49 people and injured 50 more at an Orlando, Florida nightclub, many Christians have been offering their sympathy and prayers for the families who lost their loved ones during the shooting rampage early Sunday morning.…

Derryck GreenJune 16, 2016

Faith

Urban Christians’ Muffled Voice on Obama Progressive Policies

Recently, Justin Giboney penned a piece for Christianity Today in which he laments and regrets the decision and refusal of “urban Christians” to challenge President Obama’s leadership and anti-Christian, leftist agenda. President Obama’s recently mandated the county’s schools and universities…

Derryck GreenJune 10, 2016

Race Religion

Facts Don’t Care about Feelings in Painful Race Realities

Christian blogger Nicola A. Menzie is the proprietor of Faithfully Magazine. This website seeks to “capture, curate, and contribute to conversations about the intersection of race, culture, and Christianity.” According to Menzie, her website exists because, as she says, “Contrary…

Derryck GreenApril 29, 2016

Faith Uncategorized

Queerness: a Tool for Theological Purification?

Morgan Guyton, whose blog, “Mercy Not Sacrifice,” is on the Progressive Christian Channel at Patheos, recently published a response to David Watson’s article on Christian unity and moralism in the United Methodist Church. Appreciating the theological diversity in the UMC,…

Derryck GreenApril 13, 2016

Faith Race

Blogger Condemns Racist “Settler” Christians

Evangelicals for Social Action (ESA) – a progressive Christian (definitely in that order) organization that wants to apply the Christian gospel to "social justice" issues – recently posted a blog that demonstrates that ESA is more concerned with "social action"…

Derryck GreenApril 7, 2016

Race Religion

“Anablacktivism” and the Racial Grievance Industry

Last week, Evangelicals for Social Action sent out a tweet in support of Drew G.I. Hart’s website that has as its tagline Anablacktivism, which is an amalgamation of Anabaptism, black theology, and activism. The specific entry the tweet highlights are “Black-on-Black…

Derryck GreenMarch 30, 2016

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