The residential school system
By the late 1800s, most Indians, those whose tribes were recognized by state or federal governments, had disappeared from the […]
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October 2022
At small-town radio station, the right-wing misinformation effort goes local
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/10/26/right-wing-radio-station/
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The Growing Religious Alliance to Ban LGBTQ Books
Bad news… https://newrepublic.com/article/168180/growing-religious-alliance-ban-lgbtq-books
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Pure white housing space
In her 2020 masterpiece, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, Isabel Wilkerson explains limiting employment opportunities for all people of
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Crossing the Color Line
by Jim Wallis https://open.substack.com/pub/jimwallis/p/crossing-the-color-line?r=1ewbq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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Risky and Reckless
Understanding people who hold opposing political beliefs is hard enough when you rarely meet anyone like that (sorting), harder when
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Study: Religion and spirituality can aid youth mental health crisis
Religion and spirituality could help remedy the youth mental health crisis, Springtide Research finds. https://religionnews.com/2022/10/19/study-religion-and-spirituality-can-aid-youth-mental-health-crisis/
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Sign the petition to the House of Representatives: Seat the Cherokee Nation Delegate
It’s time for the United States to fulfill its promise to the Cherokee Nation. The 1835 Treaty of New Echota between the United States
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Braver Angels on CBS Sunday Morning
CBS Sunday Morning ran a national segment on Braver Angels’ efforts to bridge the divide by covering a recent workshop
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PBS documentaries depict Frederick Douglass’ and Harriet Tubman’s paths of freedom, faith
by Adelle M. Banks https://religionnews.com/2022/10/11/pbs-docs-depict-frederick-douglass-and-harriet-tubmans-paths-of-freedom-faith/
A “generative” person
The Eight Beatitudes speak to you much more than the Ten Commandments now. I have always wondered why people never
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The 7 High-Trust Organizational Dividends
Now consider the dividends of high trust. Obviously the opposites of the 7 Low-Trust Organizational Taxes we’ve just discussed are
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What Ails the Right Isn’t (Just) Racism
An authoritarian fear of difference best explains the intolerance sweeping the Republican Party. By Conor Friedersdorf https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/08/what-if-left-was-right-race/595777/
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To Whom Do We Speak Truth?
by Susan K. Williams Smith I was fascinated when I heard Dr. Miguel de la Torre say in a lecture,
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We Can’t Pray Away Christian Nationalism. We’ve Got to Vote it Out | Opinion
by Chris Jones and Doug Pagitt https://www.newsweek.com/we-cant-pray-away-christian-nationalism-weve-got-vote-it-out-opinion-1747208
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To build awakened attention
Even obstacles often appear at just the right time to teach us something important. I created this exercise called Three
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Common Ground – How Can We Ensure Fair, Secure and Accessible Elections?
Equal numbers of Conservatives and Liberals take a deep dive into a chosen issue to find joint and unanimously held
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Takers and Givers
According to conventional wisdom, highly successful people have three things in common: motivation, ability, and opportunity. If we want to