Psychologists discuss another sort of compartmentalization, which gets mixed reviews. I’ve experienced that, too. As a child, when a frightening adult repeatedly overpowered me, I detached emotionally. I compartmentalized as much as possible so that at a subconscious level, I did not allow my whole self to become injured. Instead of hearing what was said […]
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From high-level lawmakers to to local poll workers, people who would not live by Trump’s lies have been violently targeted. – by Jim Wallis https://jimwallis.substack.com/p/when-political-lies-lead-to-political
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There’s a reason the white world has tried to censor Black anger: anger is a revolutionary emotion. When the oppressed are fed up with their mistreatment, they become more likely to organize their outrage into sustained resistance against their oppressors. That’s why powerful institutions and people invest immense resources to manage public outrage. Social scientist
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Temperatures in the Barents Sea region are ‘off the scale’ and may affect extreme weather in the US and Europe https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/15/new-data-reveals-extraordinary-global-heating-in-the-arctic
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In this video interview, Jack Jenkins of Religion News Service talks about his article How Christian Nationalism Paved the Way for Jan. 6 with Doug Pagitt.
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Jesus lived in an unjust society and throughout his life witnessed the constant abuse of his people by the Roman Empire. Not only this, but his religious tradition consistently reminded him of how often the Jewish people had been enslaved by cruel empires such as Babyon and Egypt. This bleak reality is what fueled the
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Researchers have now calculated how many people could be saved from heat-related death if the US takes meaningful action https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/16/us-climate-crisis-millions-lives-saved
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One common misconception about Jesus is that his earthly ministry was defined primarily by his teaching and preaching. But read the gospels carefully and you will find that the majority of his time and energy were committed to healing and caring for the sick. There are 37 miracles of Jesus recorded in the gospels, 31
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One way to heal the racial divide is to observe under what conditions racial harmony exists or flourishes. I notice most progress with racism occurs in situations and organizations where people have to work together for their common survival, their common good. Thus, during natural disasters and collective life-threatening crises, people seem to be able
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We recently hosted a small round table conversation in Atlanta, Georgia. The topic was race and racism. We invited ten black people and five white people. We started things off by asking everybody to talk about how racism has affected their lives. Every black person in the room had a story to tell. Some talked
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Our first claim is that White supremacy stole the truth about the identity of African Americans. In saying this, we are not speaking of identity in the theological sense. In much of the Christian tradition, and certainly in the Scriptures, human identity is grounded in the reality that God loves human beings and crowned them
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From a theological lens, Christians assert that God chose to incarnate as a first-century Jewish man, as a member of a community that constantly lived under the threat of colonizing forces moving in, yet again, to oppress and exploit them. This is a theological insight that must not be taken lightly. The creator of the
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South Carolina’s layered slave trades grew in complexity. The multiplying African population increased the terror of White settlers, who codified their fear into law through new race codes in 1740: “All negroes and Indians, (free Indians in amity with this government, and negroes, mulatoos, and mestizos, who are now free, excepted) mulattoes (African/European) or mestizos
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