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Month: June 2020

The Priesthood of All Believers in the Face of Racism

The Priesthood of All Believers in the Face of Racism

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Even though I watch from Australia, the other side of the world doesn’t seem so far away. The turmoil and grief of my native country, of my black brothers and sisters, fills my mind and heart as I pour over news articles and podcasts and grasp for some way to act wisely and faithfully in response.  Muddled though my thoughts and emotions are, one idea has surfaced again and again this week: the priesthood of all believers. Might there be…

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“A Weighty Burden of Guilt”

“A Weighty Burden of Guilt”

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“As a culture we have spent a great deal of time in recent decades naming and deploring the crimes and injustices in our history. This is right and necessary. But the present crises have exposed crimes and injustices deeply embedded in the society we live in now. So we provide our descendants with a weighty burden of guilt to lament. This irony—too mild a word—casts grave doubt on the rigor of our self-examinations. “All this comes down to the need…

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