When I left South Africa, I didn’t want anything to do with a Jesus who endorsed colonialism, the slaughter of Zulu people, and the whole system of apartheid. I didn’t leave the true Jesus in South Africa – just white Jesus In Taiwan I discovered that Jesus was alive and well, especially around a table …
Altruistic behaviour takes place in a different part of the brain to similar activity to help oneself, new research has found. https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2022/scientists-pinpoint-brain-region-responsible-for-effortful-helping-behaviour
My academic mentor, ethicist Glen Stassen, once told a story that sums up why people, even moral people, do terrible things. Glen said that he and Dot, his wife, were having a minor disagreement over some mundane thing. Glen stated his desired resolution, likely through an exhaustive ethical explanation. Dot, after considering his argument, laid …
from Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2022/08/09/new-book-invites-christians-to-rethink-homelessness/ You can also see our interview of the book’s author Kevin Nye (“Grace Can Lead Us Home: A Christian Call to End Homelessness”) here: https://youtu.be/z3AEEVan9gM
British researchers and a team from Google found that teaching people how to spot misinformation made people more skeptical of it. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/24/technology/google-search-misinformation.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Speaking with Bob Zellner, veteran organizer with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, I asked, “What drove White people to fight to the death to maintain White supremacy?” He shared with me his theory of the shrunken heart. “First of all, slavery was an act of war,” he said. “It had to be carried out every …
Our country’s commitment to bottomless self-interest, manic work schedule, and a structural belief in competition and scarcity as moral imperatives is actually killing us. “Most of us were not taught how to recognize pain, name it, and be with it,” Brene Brown argues. “Our families and culture believed that the vulnerability that it takes to …
by Lisa Sharon Harper https://lisasharonharper.substack.com/p/american-justice?s=r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=direct
American business can be a force for finding common ground, but large corporations must now answer to a growing array of stakeholders, who often have opposing views on hot-button issues. In recent years, social media has also forced companies to respond immediately to a variety of conflicting demands. In this episode of Let’s Find Common …
After I graduated from college, I remained at the University of Florida for law school. When I finished law school, I began a career as a young attorney trying to navigate law-firm life. As I was settling into a niche practice area within insurance defense, I was hired as an associate attorney at an Atlanta …
https://pen.org/press-release/ban-on-52-books-in-largest-utah-school-district-is-a-worrisome-escalation-of-censorship/
So here we all are, folks, Crossing paths in a stuck world that’s ready for something different – but what? I’ve been wrestling with the possibilities for years now without realizing it: stumbling onto people and their bottomless stories, following this compulsion to help us come together and understand each other precisely where it’s hard, …
https://religionnews.com/2022/07/29/having-autism-makes-finding-a-spiritual-community-difficult-here-are-some-ways-to-help/
One could say that the tragedy, the “goat stories” of racism, slavery, sexism, the Crusades, the Inquisition, and the two World Wars, all of which emerged in and were tolerated by Christian Europe, are a stunning manifestation of our disillusionment and disgust with ourselves and one another, when we could not make the world right …
by Adam Grant https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/jul/30/you-cant-say-that-how-to-argue-better
I grew up in the American South, in the world of white evangelicalism. I attended their churches and youth camps, trained for ministry at their schools, preached at their churches. For a long time, I felt like a beloved part of that world. At one point, I even imagined myself making a career in it; …
What’s in a Question? A vital ingredient to help is times of loss, pain and upheaval. I admit my instinctual preference, I want answers and want to be in charge. But life does not bring that guarantee. A friend laughs each time she says to me: “So you want HEA?” Happily Ever After. There is …
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Carrie Newcomer & Parker J. Palmer talk about the challenges of staying in dialogue during divisive times, how to claim agency and the courage to stay engaged. Many of us were raised with a household rule to never talk about religion or politics in polite company. In this episode they unpack and reframe the true meaning of the …
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