A Real Life Good Samaritan Story
by Jemar Tisby https://open.substack.com/pub/jemartisby/p/a-real-life-good-samaritan-story?r=1ewbq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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December 2022
How Will You Measure Your Life in 2023?
https://www.christenseninstitute.org/blog/how-will-you-measure-your-life-in-2023-applying-business-theory-to-reflections-and-resolutions/
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A California church attempts reparations for historic redlining of Black homebuyers
The Black Wealth Builders Fund offers zero-interest loans to Black neighbors looking to purchase their first home. https://religionnews.com/2022/12/23/a-california-church-attempts-reparations-for-historic-redlining-of-black-homebuyers/
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The Five Waves of Trust
The First Wave: Self Trust The first wave, Self Trust, deals with the confidence we have in ourselves – in our ability to set and achieve goals, to keep commitments, to walk our talk – and also with our ability to inspire trust in others. The whole idea is to become, both to ourselves and
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I witnessed an extraordinary act of kindness. What if altruism is more common than we think?
by Emma Wilkins https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/24/i-witnessed-an-extraordinary-act-of-kindness-what-if-altruism-is-more-common-than-we-think?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Quiet your achieving awareness
The twentieth-century views of the mind describe imagination as something we construct. Imagination is invention. Make-believe. But in awakened awareness, imagination is not an act of creation so much as an act of perception – a way of detecting information. Just as we detect heat from a burner when our hand gets too close to
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The male-dominated church structure that solidified in the fourth century
The male-dominated church structure that solidified in the fourth century would dominate Christianity for the next sixteen centuries. It would lead to the silencing of women’s voices, the elimination of women leaders, and the shameful scapegoating of women by church officials. The two largest groups in American Christianity today, the Roman Catholic Church and the
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Why Do Stanford, Harvard and NASA Still Honor a Nazi Past?
from the New York Times (free article)
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Standing in the tragic gap
The stories, criticism, and practices in this book invite us into what I can reparative intercession. To be reparative intercessors is to take up oral, attitudinal, and behavioral practices that turn off the white noise and build the moral muscle to topple Whiteness. Drawing on the model of intercessory prayer, reparative intercession is public speech
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Algorithm Warfare: How Elon Musk uses Twitter to control brains
Like Trump, Musk has weaponized tweets for the information war https://open.substack.com/pub/georgelakoff/p/algorithm-warfare-how-elon-musk-uses?r=1ewbq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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Big Oil has engaged in a long-running climate disinformation campaign while raking in record profits, lawmakers find
https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/09/politics/big-oil-disinformation-record-profits-climate/index.html
Kindness, sensitivity, compassion, honesty, and empathy can also be impressive political resources
In the 1830s, Lincoln was striving to be the DeWitt Clinton of Illinois, referencing a U.S. senator and New York governor who spearheaded the construction of the Erie canal. When Lincoln withdrew from his first Senate race to help Lyman Trumbull win the seat, they shared a commitment to abolishing slavery. From emancipating slaves, to
How False Beliefs Propel Cultural Conflict
https://newsletters.theatlantic.com/the-third-rail/639385a7b9e06100378c0e1e/democrat-republican-political-beliefs-culture/
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We cannot wait for the world to change
If our faith is only about spiritual fulfillment and community, then we are a part of the problem, not the solution. Our job is to, day by day, gradually conform our lives and our churches to the way of Jesus, asking how we can leverage our resources, our privilege, and our power each day for
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With race in mind, Christians reconsider language of dark and light at Advent
Featuring Bruce Reyes-Chow https://religionnews.com/2022/12/07/amid-racial-reckoning-christians-reconsider-the-language-of-dark-and-light-at-advent/
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California Panel Sizes Up Reparations for Black Citizens
The state is undertaking the nation’s most ambitious effort so far to compensate for the economic legacy of slavery and racism. View the article here
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“What am I missing?”
If there’s one question I want to persuade you to ask more often, its “What am I missing?” “What am I missing?” is not just any question. It’s the question. It’s the doorstop to put down in the hallways of your mind, pathway after pathway to keep open possibilities from slamming into harmful assumptions. Answering
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