We recommend The Salt Collective writer Lawrence Richardson's new memoir I Know What Heaven Looks Like.

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About Lenny Duncan

Pastor Lenny Duncan (he/him) is a follower of Jesus Christ and is in a passionate love affair with Grace. Lenny has been everything from high school drop out, drug dealer, sex worker, street corner poet, hitchhiker, dharma bum, small town drifter, seminarian, political activists, father, pastor, lover, public theologian, and writer. Now he thrives in the PNW. He is currently the Pastor of the Jubille Collective a community organized around the idea that maybe Jesus is anti-racist and loves queer, trans, two spirited people too. View all posts by Lenny Duncan →

Our Church Refused to Pay Reparations, So We Did It Ourselves
by Lenny Duncan

The idea was simple. We asked our church to set up a reparations fund in Reverend Jehu Jones’ name. Rev. Jehu Jones was a Black Lutheran Preacher from 1832-1851 who was never paid. We asked for $32K in reparations annually: the amount of the salary he was denied, adjusted for inflation. We considered this to … Continue reading Our Church Refused to Pay Reparations, So We Did It Ourselves →

Dear Lutheran Church, How The Hell Did We Get Here?
by Lenny Duncan

(An adapted excerpt from “Dear Church: A Love Letter from a Black Preacher to the Whitest Denomination in the U.S) Dear Church, how the hell did we get here? The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is the whitest denomination in the United States. Many of our congregations are in decline, and our society is becoming … Continue reading Dear Lutheran Church, How The Hell Did We Get Here? →