https://abcnews.go.com/US/conservative-liberal-book-bans-differ-amid-rise-literary/story?id=96267846
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When I think of awakened awareness, I think of the iconic painting on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel of God giving life to Adam. So are we given life, by consciousness. Through awakened attention, we’re available for surprise, for new information that turns our head. When new awareness comes, it’s like the hand of
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These groups offer space for connection and conversation growing out of the themes in the devotional journal Colors of Hope. Not a formal book study. Not a business meeting. Learn more here.
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by Adelle M. Banks https://religionnews.com/2023/01/09/cornel-west-robert-george-mark-jan-6-anniversary-with-call-for-courageous-leaders/
“From January 6 to Ephesians 6: Strengthening the Pillars of American Democracy” Read More »
If politics can be fertile ground for givers, it’s possible that givers can succeed in any job. Whether giving is effective, though, depends on the particular kind of exchange in which it’s employed. This is one important feature of giving to keep in mind as we move through the ideas in this book: on any
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Indian boarding schools were an attempt by the governments of the United States and Canada to change the language, religion, and social structure of Indigenous societies and homogenize everyone into the same way of thinking and living. Although these schools predate the UN Genocide Convention by over fifty years, they meet the criteria of that
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The one who practices racial truth-telling affects others by sharing “as directly as possible what he actually believes.” Racial truth-telling assumes the speaking person owns their words and intends for those words to re-create the worlds we inhabit. Without a readiness to own the consequences of our words, truth-telling bounces across space and time absent
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Society continues to separate women out as scapegoats by consigning them to gender-role stereotypes – the virgin, the shrew, the wife, the widow, the whore, the witch, and many more. Such categorizations work to dehumanize women by reducing them to one-dimensional caricatures and forcing them to play limiting and (usually male-) prescribed roles in the
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/01/rachel-sweet-abortion-victories-kentucky-kansas-republicans
She led two historic victories for abortion rights – by persuading Republicans Read More »
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/05/social-media-democracy-trust-babel/629369/
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