Diana Bass

3 weeks ago | whitetoolong.net | Robert P. Jones |Kristin Du Mez |Diana Bass

Thanks to all of you who joined the live conversation last night at my latest live WTL Author forum with Adam Taylor, president of Sojourners and author of A More Perfect Union: A New Vision for Building the Beloved Community. I’m including the recording of the conversation below. Tune in to hear how Adam reimagines Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision of the beloved community for our contemporary moment of racial backlash.

1 month ago | angeladenker.substack.com | Angela Denker |Diana Bass

Hi Readers, I’m writing to you after a busy but maybe disjointed day. I spent the morning feverishly changing bedding and taking an ill older son to the doctor (then racing to the other clinic after the first one was no longer taking walk-in patients) - and then prepping for an afternoon live Zoom session with the person who has been my biggest inspiration right here on this platform ( !) as well as the CEO of Public Religion Research Institute, Melissa Deckman.

1 month ago | dianabutlerbass.substack.com | Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer |Jonathan Rauch |Diana Bass

Dear Cottage friends,I was in New York for two days last week and came home (to northern Virginia) where I immediately spoke at a local church weekend event. The contrast was surprising. While New York is in the crosshairs of political retribution and corruption, the entire Washington, D.C. area is under revenge siege. We went to see a play in New York and laughed along with an audience of 500. We walked around and watched silly tourists. We went into beautiful churches.

1 month ago | dianabutlerbass.substack.com | Joy Harjo |Diana Bass

Good evening, Cottage friends!I wanted to share my sermon from this morning with you. It’s on the text from Luke 6:27-38. Sunday Musings covered some of the same material, but the preached sermon was different from the written reflection on the same passage.

2 months ago | dianabutlerbass.substack.com | Wendell Berry |Diana Bass

Dear Cottage friends,As I write, snow is falling in Washington, DC. It is quiet; we are wrapped in silence. It feels like a holy gift, the welcome grace of a noiseless night. Yesterday, many of you wrote or commented on the news I shared about the lawsuit filed by some of our denominations to protect the freedom of religion we cherish. A large number of you remarked that the case gave you hope. Today, I share Wendell Berry’s “A Poem on Hope” as words of wisdom on this Wednesday.