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 Keep Hope Alive – A Christmas and Holy Season Greeting

 Keep Hope Alive – A Christmas and Holy Season Greeting

by | Dec 24, 2024 |

Tomorrow Christians celebrate Christmas. Hanukkah, the festival of light, begins for people of Jewish faith on Dec. 25 and ends Thursday, January 2, 2025. Kwanzaa, a holiday honoring the culture and tradition of people of African origin, begins on December 26 and ends on January 1. For many people, for many reasons, it is indeed a season of hope. Today’s post continues to explore our individual and collective battle between darkness and light and despair and hope; it concludes with a simple song that I offer as a gift of hope.  

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Waiting and Wondering in a Chaotic Time

Waiting and Wondering in a Chaotic Time

by | Dec 10, 2024 | ,

Chaos and uncertainty abound these days. Nature is doing its part to remind us life is messy and we aren’t in charge. I woke up last week to howling winds, temperatures too cold for my liking and some light snow. Friends in PA and MI were digging out from huge snow storms while friends in FL complained about this unusual cold and needing to turn on their heating systems. 

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Pondering Christian Realism

Pondering Christian Realism

by | Sep 24, 2024 |

A couple of months ago, I listened online to a talk by professor Kevin Carnahan about Christian Realism. It’s a perspective I hadn’t encountered before, at least not in these terms. I thought I would share some of my thoughts about it here in case you might find the connections I’m making helpful.

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Walking the Earth

Walking the Earth

by | Sep 10, 2024 | ,

We are all walkers.  Sometime during our first year on this earth, we took our first steps.  Now I doubt that anyone of us remembers those first tentative steps on our own two feet.  But I bet our parents remembered them and took pride in watching us teeter along.  It’s what we did when we witnessed our children’s first steps.  Walking defines us as a species.  We are the species that stands up and walks.

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Why pay attention to Christian Nationalism?

Why pay attention to Christian Nationalism?

by | Aug 20, 2024 | ,

When I started writing about Christian Nationalism a few months ago, I felt shy and awkward about the topic. I didn’t want to self-identify as a Christian given the misuse of the term, and I wasn’t sure the topic was that important. Today I am convinced it is a topic vital for our nation’s future. This week’s post is a reflection on how and why my perspective changed

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Exploring Christians against White Nationalism

Exploring Christians against White Nationalism

by | Aug 6, 2024 | ,

A few months ago, guest contributor A. Adar Ayira wrote about keeping the faith in an age of white (supremacist) Christianity. She described the organized actions of Christian-led white supremacists and the threat to people of color and racial equality. She concluded by observing the absence of a visible opposition from white Christians who disagree with how the teachings and values of Jesus are being distorted. She pointed out that white people tend to rely on Black and non-Black people of color to lead the pushback. 

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About Tom Adams

Tom AdamsTom Adams writes and speaks on topics vital to the intersection of our personal lives with our community and global lives. He has for decades been engaged in and written about nonprofit leadership and transitions, spirituality and spiritual growth, how we each contribute to a more just and equitable world and recovery from addictions and the Twelve Step recovery movement.