Six ways religious and spiritual leaders can help the internet serve their communities right now. By Paul Brandeis Raushenbush https://religionnews.com/2022/01/19/religious-communities-have-a-moral-obligation-to-make-the-internet-better/
Religious communities have a moral obligation to make the internet better Read More »
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/26/homeless-los-angeles-super-bowl
‘Trying to disappear the poor’: California clears homeless camp near Super Bowl Read More »
by Samuel L. Perry https://religionnews.com/2022/01/05/violence-isnt-the-only-way-christian-nationalism-endangers-democracy/ The threat of voter suppression is perhaps more destructive because its influence is more subtle and its effects more consequential.
Violence isn’t the only way Christian nationalism endangers democracy Read More »
by Robert P. Jones https://robertpjones.substack.com/p/the-sacred-work-of-white-discomfort
The Sacred Work of White Discomfort Read More »
The Web has explored the adjacent possible of its medium far faster than any other communications technology in history. In early 1994, the Web was a text-only medium, pages of words connected by hyperlinks. But within a few years, the possibility space began to expand. It became a medium that let you do financial transactions,
Cartographic revolutions Read More »
by Maria Popova https://www.themarginalian.org/2015/03/31/how-to-love-thich-nhat-hanh/
As slavery continued to thrive in the United States, slave traders, many of whom called themselves Christian, participated in the business of selling human beings. As the economy of the South was growing, more and more labor was needed, and so many enslaved Africans who lived north of the deep South were sought as laborers
Weak from the start Read More »
Marian Chia-Ming Liu https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/interactive/2022/assimilation-chinese-names-asian-racism/
The Power of Reclaiming My Asian Name Read More »
Homesickness – the longing for home. Frederick Buechner points out that the word “longing” comes from the same root as the word “long,” in the sense of length and time, as in, “it’s a long line,” or “it was a long time ago.” So, the word “longing” has its origin in time and distance. But
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by Susan K. Williams Smith The celebration of the birthday of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King has come and gone, and what is troubling is that so many who are working against everything he stood for had the audacity to give tributes to the man and to his work. It was a sham of
Meditation: In Search of the “Sound of the Genuine” Read More »
Physical proximity to one another can provide diverse peoples opportunities for caring relationship. However, without sustained interaction and expression of intimacy among people of different identities, the stage is set for dramas in which hate will be a leading character. Proximity without a process that forms caring relationships is a deadly combination. From “Living Into
Proximity without a process Read More »
by Jemar Tisby https://jemartisby.substack.com/p/why-removing-racist-symbols-and-monuments
Why Removing Racist Symbols and Monuments Matters Read More »
What’s the problem with being “not racist”? It is a claim that signifies neutrality: “I am not a racist, but neither am I aggressively against racism.” But there is no neutrality in the racism struggle. The opposite of “racist” isn’t “not racist.” It is “anti-racist.” What’s the difference? One endorses either the idea of a
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by Adam Taylor of Sojourners https://sojo.net/articles/how-will-we-teach-our-kids-about-jan-6
How Will We Teach Our Kids About Jan. 6? Read More »
A very important article from The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/12/trust-recession-economy/620522/
I sit on my porch swing on North High Street in Hartford City, Indiana, waiting out a lazy shower on the end of a storm. I’ve learned that a Midwestern spring thunderstorm – the quality of light across the sky, the texture of saturated clouds, the sound the rain makes on the sidewalk – is
We need to know where we are Read More »
On the day Donald Trump was to take the oath of office in 2017, I’d been the president of Demos for three years. I was gearing up to fight against the onslaught that Trump’s incoming administration portended for civil rights and liberties, for immigrants and Muslims, and for the Black Lives Matter movement that he
Everybody wasn’t operating in their own rational economic self-interest Read More »
