CNN’s Wolf Blitzer made a huge mistake in reporting on the 2015 protests in Baltimore after Freddie Gray’s death while Gray was in police custody. And it is the same mistake many white people are making five years later with the protests after the murder of George Floyd when a police officer knelt down on…
I recently sat down with Gary Marschke, the lead for Outreach and Development at the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) in Clackamas to talk about the NAMI Walk Your Way fundraiser tomorrow and mental illness. You can join our NAMI Walk Your Way team, the Holy Outcasts, but clicking here. NAMI provides invaluable resources…
Fear is everywhere. Some people tell us we should fear the coronavirus, so you should wear a mask. Others say the coronavirus is a hoax and you should fear scientists and the “deep state” that is trying to take over the world. So you should not wear a mask. How can you find the truth?…
Have you noticed that politicians and the media manipulate our fears for their own advantage? This leads to confusion about what we should and should not fear. Rev. Eric Law helps us discern the difference in part 2 in our 3 part series on his book, “Fear Not: Living Grace and Truth in a Frightened…
Pastor Adam and Eric H.F. Law, author of Fear Not: Living Grace and Truth in a Frightened World, discuss this book in a three-part video series. This video contains Part 1. Click the following links to watch Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 in the Fear Not series.
Below is my conversation with Cole Merkel, the Deputy Director of Outreach Management at HereTogether. Cole provides a presentation about the upcoming ballot measure 26-210 and how voting “yes” will help our houseless neighbors. Houselessness is a chronic issue in our area. This measure seeks to ensure services in the Portland area have needed funding…
The Gospel is inherently political. The early Christians made a subversive political claim – Jesus is Lord. That may not seem very political to those of us living in the 21st century. But in the first century Roman Empire, people had to claim that the Roman Emperor was Lord. To claim that Jesus was Lord…
We at Clackamas United Church of Christ would like to make a confession. Some of us eat bacon. Some of us eat shrimp. And some of us eat shrimp wrapped in bacon!!! And we all wear garments made of different materials. (Polyester!?! Oh the shame!) And some of us have even brought these things into…
No matter how you interpret Romans 1, if you use it in a way to condemn others, you need to repent. Because when you use Romans 1 to judge and condemn, you are judging and condemning yourself.
If our LGBTQ siblings are anyone in the Sodom and Gomorrah story, they are the angels in our midst.