Aaron Stauffer

2 months ago | christiancentury.org | Aaron Stauffer |Mac Loftin |Brandon Ambrosino |Brian Bantum

We’re in desperate need of broad-based community organizing these days. Many of the most tangible injustices in our world, both large and small, appear to be unresolvable through straightforward political means. We receive hints here and there of the revitalization of worker organization and unions, but the news is mixed.

Sep 9, 2024 | mdpi.com | Aaron Stauffer

1. IntroductionHoward Kester and Claude Williams helped build and sustain some of the more radical, class-based interracial organizing movements in the southern U.S. during the 1930s and 1940s. These organizations fed the institutional ecology of the Civil Rights movement that started in the 1950s (Harvey 2005; see esp. chapter 2, and pp. 97–106).

Jul 30, 2024 | pres-outlook.org | Aaron Stauffer

Each semester I ask my students the same question: what is the operative theology in your congregation? Not the articulated theology —  not what your congregations tell you they believe. But the operative theology — the beliefs they have about God that they practice and perpetuate in daily life. These students come from all over the country and are already leading churches; some have multiple congregations miles apart in rural areas.

Feb 16, 2024 | christiancentury.org | Elizabeth Felicetti |Aaron Stauffer |Amy Frykholm |Mary Clark Moschella

To receive these posts by email each Monday, sign up. For more commentary on this week's readings, see the Reflections on the Lectionary page. For full-text access to all articles, subscribe to the Century. The second part of this Sunday’s gospel reading describes the beginning of Jesus’ public ministry proclaiming the good news and calling people to repent. This begins, however, after the arrest of John the Baptist. What kind of crisis must that have caused?

Feb 13, 2024 | christiancentury.org | Aaron Stauffer |Mary Clark Moschella |Debie Thomas |Philip Jenkins

Chaplain Angela Song, right, places ashes on the forehead of surgeon Michele Carpenter at Providence St. Joseph Hospital in Orange, California, in February 2023. ( AP Photo / Jae C. Hong) Inside the vast, dimly lit chapel, I stand beside a stool that holds Q-tips, a number ticker, and a small jar of ash. The chapel is musty and dark, its stained-glass windows allowing little light to permeate the pews. It lacks a cross, bimah, or any other particular faith marker.