by Claire Giangravé https://religionnews.com/2022/09/26/in-hometown-of-st-francis-of-assisi-pope-puts-forward-radical-criticism-of-capitalism/
In hometown of St. Francis of Assisi, pope touts ‘radical criticism’ of capitalism Read More »
by Adam Russell Taylor of Sojourners https://sojo.net/articles/midterms-got-you-down-5-ways-people-faith-can-take-action
Midterms Got You Down? 5 Ways People of Faith Can Take Action Read More »
by Mark G. Contreras https://www.ctpost.com/opinion/article/Opinion-Braver-Angels-could-show-us-all-17459454.php
Opinion: ‘Braver Angels’ could show us all the way to strengthen our American democracy Read More »
Redundancy Redundancy is unnecessary duplication. Of course, redundant mission-critical systems and data management are necessary. But a redundancy tax is paid in excessive organizational hierarchy, layers of management, and overlapping structures all designed to ensure control. For the most part, it grows out of the paradigm that unless people are tightly supervised, they can’t be
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Virtue signaling is designed to communicate specifically to one partisan tribe and to affirm its moral superiority. A scholar of ethics and politics explains why that is unwelcome in a divided US. by Christopher Beem https://religionnews.com/2022/09/23/why-virtue-signaling-isnt-the-same-as-virtue-it-actually-furthers-the-partisan-divide/
Why virtue signaling isn’t the same as virtue – it actually furthers the partisan divide Read More »
Much of the world is implicated in the crime and the coverup. Britain couldn’t have become “Great” without their work camps in Jamaica, but British schools don’t spend a lot of time teaching about the violence the British Empire wrought in its colonies. In 2005, the French government tried to pass legislation that urged schools
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by Adele M. Banks https://religionnews.com/2022/09/16/biden-includes-faith-leaders-in-summits-charge-to-rise-together-against-hate/ “There’s a throughline of hate, from massacres of Indigenous people to the original sin of slavery, terror of the (Ku Klux) Klan, anti-immigration violence against the Irish, Italians, Chinese, Mexicans — so many others laced through our history,” he said in an address at a daylong event called United We
Biden includes faith leaders in summit’s charge to ‘rise together against hate’ Read More »
Fast forward to the age of the United States of America. While the nation was not technically founded as a Christian country, nearly all of the founders came from the British Empire, where Christianity was privileged and any other version of religion was eschewed. Christianity has enjoyed privilege from the very beginning of the nation’s
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“Unsolicited confessions [from white people to Black people] inspired by a sense of guilt are often poured over Black bodies in search of their own relief,” says Austin Channing Brown in I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness. Brown experienced this “self-indulgent desire for relief” after an MLK Day celebration at
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Rather than fixating on the way our adolescents dress and talk – not to mention their paradoxical willingness to use a phone for anything but its original purpose – in this book we will first pay attention to their pain because their pain is a mirror. Malcolm Harris aptly describes the asphyxiating quality of modern
The Pain is a Mirror Read More »
After the 2018 midterms, a group of researchers took a snapshot of 2,100 Republicans’ and Democrats’ political views (of all genders!), then asked them to estimate what proportion of folks from the other party concurred with several political statements. So for a Republican taking the survey, one question read, “What percentage of Democrats think that:
What we think about the other party Read More »
from Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2022/09/06/in-learning-our-names-asian-american-christian-authors-reclaim-their-stories/ And you can enjoy our interview with two authors of the book here: https://youtu.be/IkKgNpcnvAI
In ‘Learning Our Names,’ Asian American Christian authors reclaim their stories Read More »
Sooner or later, if you are on any classic “spiritual schedule,” some event, person, death, idea, or relationship will enter your life that you simply cannot deal with, using your present skill set, your acquired knowledge, or your strong will power. Spiritually speaking, you will be, you must be, led to the edge of your
