Uncategorized Religious communities have a moral obligation to make the internet better 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/
Uncategorized ‘Trying to disappear the poor’: California clears homeless camp near Super Bowl https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/26/homeless-los-angeles-super-bowl
Uncategorized Violence isn’t the only way Christian nationalism endangers democracy 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.
Robert P. Jones The Sacred Work of White Discomfort by Robert P. Jones https://robertpjones.substack.com/p/the-sacred-work-of-white-discomfort
Steven Johnson Cartographic revolutions 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…
Uncategorized How to Love: Legendary Zen Buddhist Teacher Thich Nhat Hanh on Mastering the Art of “Interbeing” by Maria Popova https://www.themarginalian.org/2015/03/31/how-to-love-thich-nhat-hanh/
Susan K Smith Weak from the start 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…
Uncategorized The Power of Reclaiming My Asian Name Marian Chia-Ming Liu https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/interactive/2022/assimilation-chinese-names-asian-racism/
Mark Feldmeir The longing for home 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,…
Uncategorized Meditation: In Search of the “Sound of the Genuine” 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…
Catherine Meeks Proximity without a process 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…
Jemar Tisby Why Removing Racist Symbols and Monuments Matters by Jemar Tisby https://jemartisby.substack.com/p/why-removing-racist-symbols-and-monuments
Ibram X. Kendi What’s the problem with being “not racist”? 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…
Adam Taylor How Will We Teach Our Kids About Jan. 6? by Adam Taylor of Sojourners https://sojo.net/articles/how-will-we-teach-our-kids-about-jan-6
The Atlantic The End of Trust A very important article from The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/12/trust-recession-economy/620522/
Daniel Bowman Jr We need to know where we are 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…
Heather McGhee Everybody wasn’t operating in their own rational economic self-interest 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…
