Developed by Keith Sanford, Ph.D., Forward Faith provides new music and in-depth discussion of ideas from a faith perspective based on liberal, progressive theology.

1. Every apparently static order is but a temporary illusion. 2. The illusion of the order and the reality of the chaos.

THEME Healthy and Unhealthy Use of Power The superior/inferior relationship which produces the victim mentality does violence to both parties.

THEME The Festival of Empowerment THOUGHTS FOR REFLECTION 1. The fire from above like the image of the halo or aura is an outward manifestation that springs from the strangely warmed heart, the heart that has experienced Christ's liberation.

Moving further into the Inspired by Hollywood series, we went to see the movie Selma. What a powerful film and so timely. That black men are still twenty-one times more likely to be killed by police than white men* in America is staggering and the media’s attention, drawn to this truth by the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, has drawn our attention, too. Watching Selma brought home the shameful truth that in far too many places, racism still rules the streets.

THEME The Vision that Transforms THOUGHTS FOR REFLECTION 1. To see Christ in another human being is illumination. To see Christ in all human beings is transfiguration.