by Chris Walters | Feb 2, 2017 | Justice
The United States incarcerates 25% of the world’s incarcerated people yet is only 4% of the world’s population. Mass incarceration in the U.S. is clearly driven by systemic racism, as documented by Michelle Alexander in her book, The New Jim Crow: Mass...
by Chris Walters | Dec 13, 2015 | Church Culture, Justice, Sermons
The following is a poem I wrote as the message for the third Sunday in Advent. The Chancel Choir sang the parts in bold, and I recited the poetry in between. Sing we now of Christmas … Noel, sing we here! Hear our grateful praises … to the babe so dear....
by Chris Walters | Mar 28, 2015 | Church Culture, Justice, Politics
Recently advocates of LGBT rights, like lovable and fierce advocate of justice George Takei, focused their ire on the state of Indiana and Governor Mike Pence for passing and signing into law Senate Bill 101, Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA)....