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Trump came after my city's reparations program, but what he doesn't understand is that the work of reparations is not an attack on America’s ideals; it is an attempt to take those ideals seriously. Thanks to @sojo.net for publishing my thoughts.

My Church Supported Our City’s Reparations Program. Trump Wants to End ItThe DOJ is attacking the religious freedom of faith communities like mine who are proud supporters of Evanston’s reparations program.sojo.net

Hey, cool to see this review of mine popping up on @sojo.net for Pride Month!

It was a great event, and I was delighted to be able to speak. @briankaylor.bsky.social also spoke, and, as usual, he was amazing and insightful!

I was grateful to join the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty and the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship last week talking about the need for faith based resistance to fascism. It was a great experience! Thanks to @amandatylerbjc.bsky.social for all the work she and BJC are doing!

Everyone should take a look at this documentary about sanctuary by Theo Rigby. It's really good, and I was so happy to be asked to write a review of it for @sojo.net 👇👇👇👇

The Most Honest Appraisal of the Sanctuary Movement I’ve Ever Seen‘Si Pudiera Quedarme/If I Could Stay’ is unlike most media around sanctuary, highlighting those receiving care as opposed to lionizing white activists who offer it.sojo.net

Our 70 year old copper cross at @lakestreetchurch.bsky.social is coming down for restoration. Literally a once-in-a-lifetime event!

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And I give my life to these institutions. So, it is personal. The fact that people go to church, hear the message and somehow think it's compatible with concentration camps is beyond disheartening, but it means pastors have to connect it explicitly, even if its unpopular.

Today, I'm thinking about the fact that 50% of mainline Protestants polled by PRRI were OK with undocumented people being sent to internment camps until they can be deported. What a failure of discipleship. It's a shocking number. So much work to do in churches. prri.org/research/the...

The New Immigration Crackdown: Where Americans StandA new PRRI report considers how receptive Americans are to the second Trump administration’s handling of immigration and their support for several different immigration-related policies.prri.org

Let me solve this problem for you. Enforce the law. If ICE comes to a courthouse in violation of Illinois law, arrest them. Let it play out in courts. Who cares if you lose eventually - you still deprive the ICE agents of the ability to terrorize our communities. Have a backbone!

Excited to host a coalition of Mainline Protestants today at the church I pastor. We are strategizing for defense of democracy and will be working to resist detention centers/ concentration camps and keep new ones from being built from a faith-based lens.

Do I sense critique of the ABCUSA in this article by @baptistnews.com? Maybe I'm too hopeful. Certainly Baptist distinctives can be used to create a better world, but the American Baptist Churches has had zero social witness for years, and if you haven't called out this admin by now, you won't ever.

America is imperiled, but Baptists can save it – Baptist News Globalmoments in the life of nation when silence becomes a decision. There are moments in the life of church when caution becomes cowardice.baptistnews.com

Another D Governor who doesn’t get it. They are on hunger strike in there - it is a torture facility. What would you do if there was a concentration camp nearby? Evidently, you would chastise protesters and send in state police to rough them up. How about doing everything you can to arrest ICE?

If I learned anything this past decade, it’s that there are no rules. No one made a rule that you can’t name a building after yourself while you’re president because we thought common decency would prevail. We need all the rules, because courts can’t enforce things there aren’t rules for.

My article for @sojo.net is live about 5 things Christians can do to support Muslims after the Islamic Center of San Diego shooting. For a deeper dive, you can also check out my book, Confronting Islamophobia in the Church. sojo.net/articles/opi...

5 Ways Christians Can Support Their Muslim NeighborsWe must build networks of solidarity now. We cannot wait for the next shocking act of violence to occur.sojo.net

This is what Trump and his cronies are spending their time doing - markups of Trump’s face on a $250 bill. Despite the fact that it’s illegal to have someone living on our money - we are not a monarchy, after all. The level of corruption, greed, and self dealing is unlike anything we’ve ever seen.

Don't let anyone ever tell you that "they were men of their times." That's bull. Case in point - Benjamin Lay, the first Quaker to call out slavery in dramatic fashion in the early 18th century, when all the magnates of Philadelphia were pious slaveholders. Tear down their statues and put his up.

The "Quaker Comet" Was the Greatest Abolitionist You've Never Heard OfOverlooked by historians, Benjamin Lay was one of the nation's first radicals to argue for an end to slaverywww.smithsonianmag.com

This Sunday was Pentecost, and it shows us a God who revels in diversity, including religious difference. We need that Pentecost power now more than ever to fight against the forces of hate that we saw in the shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego. The church must say something.

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Say their names! Amin Abdullah, Mansour Kaziha and Nader Awad are heroes and martyrs who died protecting kids from anti-Muslim violence. They are a bright light. People aren’t made for this evil. They were made for goodness.

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I see the word “tragedy” being used to describe the shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego, and it is without a doubt, a tragedy. But we know the source of this tragedy is from the highest power in our country, where this administration actively foments Islamophobia and anti-Muslim hate.

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Our hearts are grieved by the vicious attack on the Islamic Center of San Diego. @annapiela.bsky.social and I wrote a statement for our action network Challenging Islamophobia Together Chicagoland. My Muslim siblings, you are not alone. We stand in solidarity. Christians, we’ve got work to do.