Oratory, Reconciler

A small worshiping community on the north side of Chicago seeking to be a welcoming place to explore the deep tradition of the church.

[Peter Heltzel @PeterHeltzel]

"The Christian has been made righteous (justified) so that he can join God in the fight for justice. Therefore, whoever fights for the poor, fights for God; whoever risks his life for the helpless and unwanted, risks his life for God." #JamesCone Black Theology and Black Power

[Tripp Hudgins @tripphudgins]

Thanks for all the responses. The above is a common trope I encounter in my research. More conservative evangelicals, fundamentalists, are oft iconoclastic about the sonic as well as the visual. It's a curiosity.

[Antonia @antoniaterrazas]

Reminder that Easter is 50 days long and we are still in it! Good time to recenter. What resurrection practices can you incorporate during this season?

[Disciples of Christ ~ Northeastern Region @NeDoCRegion]

“While many pastors and churches are too comfortable, I’m willing to sacrifice and get arrested in the #PoorPeoplesCampaign,” Rev Leon Blunt, Senior Pastor of Mt Zion @DisciplesNews in Brooklyn #NYC at Anti-Racism Training @ChristianChurCT with @knightopia

[The Virtual Abbey @Virtual_Abbey]

#MorningPrayer
O Lord, open our lips
and our mouth shall proclaim your praise.

Let your ways be known upon earth,
your saving power among the nations.

[Tripp Hudgins @tripphudgins]

My passion in studying post-evangelicals is an expression of this same sense of advocacy. I’m not trying to make mainline Christians like myself. I’m trying to chronicle in some small way the emergence of progressive evangelicalism. I hope to be an ally. #fini

[Tripp Hudgins @tripphudgins]

But, hey, we have this city on a hill mentality and so everything enshrined in our legal system is holy now. It's all good. The NRA is ecclesia. The Constitution is scripture. I didn't realize we had reopened the canon, but that's cool. I'm down.

[Tripp Hudgins @tripphudgins]

It's a particularly common form of heresy. We've always done it. We've always believed that deep down, God is okay with our killing the Imago Dei if we're threatened. That thar is cheap grace.

[Tripp Hudgins @tripphudgins]

A thought: Christians do not have the divine right to defend ourselves with deadly force. We possess the free will to do so, but all violence is sin. It is hubris. #GunReformNow

[Oratory, Reconciler @CJCReconciler]

A word from Rev. Jubi Dutcher on the her ministry out of the community of... https://t.co/vQ2dsdo9MP

[Tripp Hudgins @tripphudgins]

Mardi Gras, Fat Tuesday, or Shrove Tuesday, call it what you will, but remember that the festival is as essential to faith as the fast. ...

[Define American @DefineAmerican]

You know who else got a giant tax cut in the recently passed bill? Private prison firms who incarcerate immigrants. https://t.co/VnvAVj7BCH

[Rabbi Jonah Geffen @JonahGeffen]

“we cannot honor King without addressing the spiritual sickness that produced extremism in statehouses, in the U.S. Congress, and in the present administration.” Read this by @RevDrBarber,internalize it. Then join @UniteThePoor @BRepairers @SharonBrous @TheRaDR @rabbijilljacobs https://t.co/T1wFpoexfr

[Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II @RevDrBarber]

In his last Christmas sermon, Dr. King said, “I still have a dream that one day the idle industries of Appalachia will be revitalized, & the empty stomachs of Mississippi will be filled...

[Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove @wilsonhartgrove]

The good news of Christmas wasn’t heralded in a Presidential proclamation; it was sung as a poor mother’s blues riff: “He has brought down the powerful from their thrones, and lifted up the lowly.”