Pentecost Resources
Pentecost Multilingual Choral Reading of Acts 2
When Todd was in seminary he did a pastoral internship at Northside Drive Baptist Church in Atlanta. As part of their Pentecost Sunday celebration,...
Pentecost Multilingual Choral Reading of Acts 2 Script
Something we look forward to every year as a congregation is the staging of a multilingual choral reading of the coming of the Holy...
Paper Doves Take Flight
I initially created these paper birds for an Easter processional to accompany the theme "Sing a New Song," but they are equally appropriate for...
Running Toward the World
Pentecost during a pandemic feels different and we need God's presence more than ever. Fortunately, the only things necessary for the church are the...
Baptist News Global
Solidarity
From the successful unionization of Starbucks baristas in Buffalo to striking actors and writers in Hollywood, support for labor unions is on the rise in...
Control
On March 12, the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling that gave a Texas father the right to deny his...
Pastor’s Wife Barbie
Ladies, don’t take your children to see the new Barbie movie. Take your mom. Take your girlfriends. Take a flask. Take the wife of your...
What Greta Gerwig’s Oscar Snub Means for Hollywood and the Church
The Academy Awards are not the final word in film, but like any institution they reflect the power dynamics of American society, including those in...
Sermon Remix
Going Home
Scripture Reading : Daniel 7:1-3, 15-18 and Ephesians 1:11-23
Believe it or not, another October has come and gone and so has another World Series. ...
Hitting the Road
A version of this sermon was preached on March 20, 2016 (Palm Sunday) at the First Baptist Church of Hyattsville. The Scripture readings were Psalm...
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Our Mothering Father
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I am the Vine (Illustrated with Street Art from Baltimore)
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Walking with the Good Shepherd
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Jesus' Life and Martin's Death illustrated
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Jesus People
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Jesus' Life and Martin's Death
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Unchanging Changes Everything
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Waiting Room
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Worship in the Wilderness
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Book Reviews
A Review and a Reckoning Part 1
After listening to Clint Smith speak in an interview about his book How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery...
A Review and a Reckoning Part 2
While planning my daughters’ homeschool history lessons I stumbled across Wheatlands Plantation about an hour away from where we’ve been living in Tennessee. Not...
Daughters of Rizpah: Working Through Trauma
Buttry, Sharon A. and Daniel L. Buttry. Daughters of Rizpah: Nonviolence and the Transformation of Trauma. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2020.
Sharon and Dan Buttry...
World of Meaning
This month marks the 40th anniversary of the death of Howard Thurman (April 10), an early twentieth century African-American theologian, poet, pastor, and activist...
Books for Reckoning with White Supremacy in the American Church
The Cross and the Lynching Tree, James H. Cone (2011)
The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism, Jemar Tisby...
