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My Body, My Life

By Lama Rod Owens — 2017

How mindfulness has helped Buddhist teacher Lama Rod Owens live as a Black queer man in America.

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Why America Needs the Black Church for its Own Survival

Will the Black church become White? It sounds like a strange question. When my family watched the 2021 PBS documentary on the Black church, I noted the assumption by some of those interviewed that the Black church received its faith and theology as a part of the transatlantic slave trade.

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Charlie Dates
2021
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Asian American Christians Grapple with Bias in Their Own Churches

In the past year and a half, Asian American Christians have been calling out the anti-Asian bias they see in their own congregations.

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Sarah Ngu
2021
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Confessing Jesus' Name Means Confessing Revolutionary Love

I must confess that I am an African-American woman, a Christian woman, a woman who believes there is more than one path to God.

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Jacqui Lewis
2016
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Inspiring LGBT Religious Leaders

Reflecting and shaping the culture in which it is embedded, religion has historically been hostile to LGBT-identified people and communities.

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Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush
2011
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Outfront: Lesbian Rabbi Fights Intolerance with Love

Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum is spreading light this Hanukkah, not with a menorah, but with love.

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Julie Compton
2016
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Q&A with the Rev. William Barber, Building “Fusion Coalition” that Unites People Against Poverty

Barber makes clear his belief that the role of Christians is to call for social justice and allow the “rejected stones” of American society—the poor, people of color, women, LGBTQIA people, immigrants, religious minorities—to lead the way.

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Alexandra Greenwald
2020
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Should Christians Do Yoga?

A few weeks ago, a Baptist minister in Texas started a rumble, or at least a small brouhaha, when he declared that yoga is not suitable for Christians. His point was that using the body for spiritual practice contradicts basic Christian principles.

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Sally Kempton
2010
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