New CC content on gender, language, MLK, and more.

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** New look, new awards, new you
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If you are at all observant (I am not), you may have already noticed that this weekly Editors’ Picks email has had a makeover. That’s because WE HAVE A NEW WEBSITE ([link removed]) . I’m a little excited about it. I’m also excited about our showing at last week’s Associated Church Press annual awards ([link removed]) , where we notched over 20 wins. I am particularly delighted by our award for Best Disapproving Letter to the Editor; after our magazine redesign last year, one reader asked, “What does this very slick, tight-columned, hard-spined inflexibility say about God?”

(You may not know this, but I help put together each issue’s Letters & Comments section. Any time you have something to say about one of our articles, please consider sending us a letter by emailing [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]?subject=Letter%20to%20the%20editor&body=Dear%20editorial%20staff%2C) .)

Speaking of newness, we have two great pieces for you from our April issue. One is about R/B Mertz’s journey with gender ([link removed]) and names, and one is a reflection on untapped possibilities in the Latin language ([link removed]) to explore new ways to talk about gender.

Plus a new video this week: a chat with theologian and author Richard Lischer ([link removed]) . He discusses the context, theology, and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail.”

Email me: Describe a time you named or renamed something or someone.

Jon Mathieu
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** My gender is a circle ([link removed])
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“Pondering my own identity, I found myself stuck between a rock and a hard place: I could betray myself or betray women.”
by R/B Mertz
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** The power of the Latin neuter ([link removed])
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“The topic of gendered nouns presents the opportunity to use this dead language to support a growing number of students who are aware of the power that languages hold to enable us to understand our own identities.”
by Margaret Somerville
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** Richard Lischer on Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” ([link removed])
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Jon chats with theologian Richard Lischer about King’s religious imagination, the letter’s context, and why it became a classic.
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** In the Lectionary for April 30 (Easter 4A) ([link removed])
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The church in Acts 2 will follow Jesus, for they know his voice.
by Jenna Smith

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** The duly elected Black men expelled from a state legislature—155 years ago ([link removed])
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“The expulsion of Jones and Pearson is not the first such event in history. It calls to mind the expulsion of the Original 33—the first Black legislators elected in Georgia—155 years earlier. Examining the precedent can tell us a lot about our cultural moment.”
by Dorothy Sanders Wells


** Can the heat of a world on fire ignite seeds of joy? ([link removed])
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“Inciting Joy’s essays are called incitements, conjuring the revolutionary tactics joy engages as it emerges in the midst of our entanglement with suffering, sorrow, and systems of oppression.”
Beth Waltemath reviews Ross Gay
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