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Responding to crises

It's often easier to diagnose a problem than to put forward a viable solution.by the editors

A church politics of nondomination "We've struggled to be both pro-queer and anti-colonial. Without a larger framework, we haven't overcome this stark division. There is, however, a larger vision to ground us: the refusal of church politics grounded in domination."Self-evident truths?Learn more.

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Responding to crises

It’s often easier to diagnose a problem than to put forward a viable solution. But we can’t skip over the part where we try to understand what’s wrong, to face and feel the wrongness and its consequences. Our latest editorial may be grim, but it is trying to do the work of diagnosing and understanding this moment in our planet’s climate crisis.

Some other new pieces offer a bit more hope. In one of our July cover stories, Ross Kane tackles the uncomfortable tension in some church traditions between pro-LGBTQ activism and anti-colonial commitments. He suggests that the way to embrace both aspirations is to establish a framework of nondomination. Then in our video of the week, Melissa Burlock follows up a recent article about God’s hair with a fascinating chat about her own image-free sense of God.

Scroll down for more great new content, like Peter Marty’s reflection on which truths can be considered “self-evident,” a poem about lakeside birds in summer, and more.

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Climate catastrophe is here
“Climate catastrophe is here. Not coming, already here. Not just in the hotter parts of the developing world—though they are certainly bearing the worst of it—but here in the United States. Not just in low-lying coastal areas, but all over.”

by the editors

A church politics of nondomination
“We’ve struggled to be both pro-queer and anti-colonial. Without a larger framework, we haven’t overcome this stark division. There is, however, a larger vision to ground us: the refusal of church politics grounded in domination.”

by Ross Kane

Melissa Burlock on Black hair and images of God
[VIDEO] Jon chats with writer Melissa Burlock about her recent CC article, representations of Jesus, and how she imagines God.

In the Lectionary for July 14 (Ordinary 15B)
Who knows what took place in Herod’s guilty heart after John’s death?

by Marilyn McEntyre

Ordinary 15B archives

Get even more lectionary resources with Sunday’s Coming Premium, an email newsletter from the editors of the Christian Century. Learn more.
Self-evident truths?
“What could the slave-owning Jefferson have meant by asserting that being created equal and being endowed with certain unalienable rights are self-evident truths?”

by Peter W. Marty

Glory
“A Baltimore oriole comes to a feeder
Bold beautiful black above a brilliant belly
I thought I understood orange . . .”

poem by Jeffrey Munroe

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