It’s a reminder that we need, too. Because at one time, many of us would not have been welcome in the church and would never have experienced the love and grace of God.
Author: Pastor Ken
Ken Ranos serves as the pastor of Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Indianapolis, IN, a congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. He blogs at https://ecumenicallife.com/ .
Review: The Cross and the Lynching Tree
The events last weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia, came as a shock to white Americans. "How can white supremacy still be a thing?" we ask ourselves, while our black siblings wonder how we ever thought it wasn't.
Take Heart
And it's important to call white supremacy out for what it is: evil. It's important to call it out as absolutely antithetical to the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Prayfaithfully: The Resurrection and the Outcasts – Part 7
But the history of the church is also one of an ever-expanding tent that will not stop until it covers every people, every group, every outcast.
Prayfaithfully: The Resurrection and the Outcasts – Part 6
It takes Peter and the other apostles a while to truly understand the breadth and scope of God’s saving grace.
Living an Ecumenical Life 