Many thanks to Calvary Presbyterian Church, San Francisco for hosting this Q&A about How to Heal Our Divides. I tell the story of how HTHOD came about and respond to some great questions on a variety of topics.
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This means they will use the common good as a guiding principle in how they govern, what policies they advocate, and the ways in which they interact with both voters and other candidates for office. Candidates for Common Good have taken the Vote Common Good Love In Politics Pledge. Multiple candidates in a race can
Let us say our priest asks for an additional Lunch Box volunteer one week. Many people can say, “Sure, I’ll do it.” I’m autistic. I will be thinking: How does it work? What is my specific role? Will our roles be clear? Who is in charge? What expectations will they have that they will never
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Congress held a second hearing on book bans and censorship in the classroom, and considered, among other testimonies, a letter signed by more than 1,300 children’s authors condemning banning efforts. https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-industry-news/article/89373-kid-lit-authors-petition-congress-to-condemn-book-banning.html
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The logical extension of the zero-sum story is that a future without racism is something white people should fear, because there will be nothing good for them in it. They should be arming themselves (as they have been in record numbers, “for protection,” since the Obama presidency) because demographic change will end in a dog-eat-dog
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In Holocaust literature, participation in the atrocities are described by types: perpetrators, victims, and bystanders. David Gushee’s assessment of the bystander is instructive, as it mirrors the moral posture of the white moderate in King’s letter: “If one is present, one is taking part. The moral issue then simply becomes a matter of moral perception
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by Robert P. Jones https://religionnews.com/2022/05/16/the-beloved-community-and-the-heresy-of-white-replacement/
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But Black oblivion is not the only kind of oblivion within American colonial slavocracy. Mystery compounds mystery with the southeastern states’ prolific investment in the Native American slave trade. Long before the first enslaved Angolans landed in Virginia in 1619, southeastern indigenous nations were pitted against one another and encouraged to sell their tribal enemies
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Doug Pagitt sits down with Amanda Hambrick Ashcraft, pastor at Middle Church in NYC and Founder of Raising Imagination to discuss how we talk about Roe v. Wade and abortion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuWhUaQ2E0M
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People who call Jesus their Lord and Savior can no longer afford to merely engage in idle, albeit distressed, conversation about racism. At best, the watching world reads our inaction as proof of our irrelevance. At worst, we give the world another reason to reject the gospel. The church cannot let that stand. It’s not
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A Jim Wallis conversation Michigan Sen. Mallory McMorrow about faith, service and how she lit a fire under suburban moms https://jimwallis.substack.com/p/mothers-you-dont-want-to-mess-with?r=1ewbq&s=r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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Virginia legislator James H. Gholson said in an 1831 speech “Our slave population is not a happy one, but it is a contented, peaceful and harmless one.” And because ideas don’t die easily, some white Americans have been repeating some version of that lie ever since. Around the time of the Civil War, Southern slaveholders
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by Jemar Tisby As the Supreme Court seems poised to overturn Roe v. Wade we look at the Religious Right and the role race played before opposition to abortion https://jemartisby.substack.com/p/abortion-racism-and-the-true-origins?r=1ewbq&s=r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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Attitudes on abortion are strongly correlated with a worldview that denies systemic racism and pines for a 1950s America. https://robertpjones.substack.com/p/alito-and-public-opinion-reveal-the?r=1ewbq&s=r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
By 2007, a record 47 million Americans were uninsured – either because they or their employers could no longer afford coverage, because they were not poor enough or old enough to qualify for Medicaid or Medicare, or because they had a preexisting condition. This led to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 which, as
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Most experts say that entrenched conflict is never solved by proving the correctness of an argument but is instead achieved by restoring a relationship. How much does “being right” matter versus moving toward a compromise, or reaching an adjusted outcome that promotes wound closure rather than amputation? In terms of managing expectations, I love what
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