Uncategorized 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
Uncategorized 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/
Uncategorized A National Reckoning of the Soul: A Call to the Churches of the United States to Confront the Crisis of Antisemitism https://ccjr.us/news/statements/ccjr-2022dec14
Uncategorized 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/
Stephen M. R. Covey 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,…
Uncategorized 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
Lisa Miller 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…
Uncategorized 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…
Uncategorized Why Do Stanford, Harvard and NASA Still Honor a Nazi Past? from the New York Times (free article)
Parker Palmer 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…
Uncategorized 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
Uncategorized Black women ministers get ‘affirmation that God sees us‘ at DC event https://religionnews.com/2022/12/07/black-women-ministers-get-affirmation-that-god-sees-us-at-dc-event/
Uncategorized 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
Adam Grant 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…
Uncategorized How False Beliefs Propel Cultural Conflict https://newsletters.theatlantic.com/the-third-rail/639385a7b9e06100378c0e1e/democrat-republican-political-beliefs-culture/
Brandan Robertson 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…
Uncategorized 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/
Uncategorized 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
Uncategorized “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.…
Uncategorized Doug Emhoff hosts roundtable on antisemitism: ‘I am going to speak out’ https://religionnews.com/2022/12/07/doug-emhoff-hosts-roundtable-on-antisemitism-i-am-going-to-speak-out/
Uncategorized It’s Time To REALLY Love Our Neighbors A Reflection by Brandan Robertson on the Supreme Court case on Religious Liberty and LGBTQ+ Discrimination https://open.substack.com/pub/nomadnotes/p/its-time-to-really-love-our-neighbors?r=43xc6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
