Uncategorized Poll: Support for abortion rights is strong, even among most religious groups The outliers are white evangelicals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Latter-day Saints and Hispanic Protestants. https://religionnews.com/2023/02/23/poll-support-for-abortion-rights-is-strong-even-among-most-religious-groups/
Stephen M. R. Covey The One Thing That Changes Everything There is one thing that is common to every individual, relationship, team, family, organization, nation, economy, and civilization throughout the world - one thing which, if removed, will destroy the…
Uncategorized Making Peace with America’s History By Honoring Both Indigenous and European Traditions You may or may not agree with all of the points made in this article. (Personally I find there are very few people with whom I agree on everything.) Regardless,…
Uncategorized 10 Books To Help Us Resist by Kaitlin Curtice https://open.substack.com/pub/kaitlincurtice/p/10-books-to-help-us-resist?r=1ewbq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
Uncategorized As Book Bans and Legislative Attacks Escalate, the New Press Pushes Back https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/91566-as-book-bans-and-legislative-attacks-escalate-the-new-press-pushes-back.html
Lisa Miller “I’ve never seen a patient who needed major surgery refuse a general anesthetic because the anesthesiologist couldn’t explain precisely how it works.” I also thought of a continuing education symposium I’d attend at Harvard Medical School a year or two before Isaiah came. Dr. Larry Dossey, a longtime medical doctor in Dallas…
Uncategorized We whose ancestors owned slaves want to make amends – but nations must also pay their due "My family owned plantations, made profits and was compensated, but the personal atonement of my generation can only ever be a start" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/11/ancestors-slaves-family-plantations-profits
Adam Grant By encouraging us to expect the worst in others it brings out the worst in us People who prefer to give or match often feel pressured to lean in the taker direction when they perceive a workplace as zero-sum. Whether it’s a company with forced ranking…
Uncategorized Democrats pass resolution condemning ‘white religious nationalism’ https://religionnews.com/2023/02/08/democrats-pass-resolution-condemning-white-religious-nationalism/
Uncategorized Poll: A third of Americans are Christian nationalists and most are white evangelicals A new PRRI survey finds that 10% of Americans are avowed Christian nationalists and an additional 19% are sympathetic to its ideals. Among both groups combined, nearly two-thirds are white…
Uncategorized The Most Important Job Skill of This Century "Like writing and coding before it, prompt engineering is an emergent form of thinking." https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/02/openai-text-models-google-search-engine-bard-chatbot-chatgpt-prompt-writing/672991/
Patty Krawec The ethnic cleansing of the West Military aggression took many forms. Two examples, separated by about thirty years, capture and in some ways bookend the ethnic cleansing of the West. Remember that earlier in the nineteenth…
Uncategorized Why the ‘He Gets Us’ Super Bowl ads make Jews nervous Whatever happened to #Pluralism? https://religionnews.com/2023/02/07/why-the-he-gets-us-super-bowl-ads-make-jews-nervous/
Willie Dwayne Francois III Reparative Intercession Reparative intercession reverberates as a counternarrative to the white noise that identifies the present world with ideas of societal fairness, racial progress, meritocracy, and colorblindness. Anti-racist educator Derald Wing Sue…
Uncategorized Believers and doers: A faith-focused approach to social innovation by L. Gregory Jones We need to forge collaborations among faith-based organizations and entrepreneurs in order to achieve the social impact we’re seeking. https://religionnews.com/2023/02/06/believers-and-doers-a-faith-focused-approach-to-social-innovation/
Uncategorized U.S. VP Harris highlights $4.2 bln private sector investment in Central America https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-vp-harris-touts-42b-private-sector-investment-central-america-2023-02-06/
Uncategorized A roundtable conversation about Christian nationalism and the future of democracy, sponsored by the University of Denver View the video here
Uncategorized Anthea Butler and Andrew Whitehead talk about the Rise of White Christian Nationalism on NBC’s Meet the Press View the video here
Jennifer Garcia Bashaw Women have always been sexual scapegoats for society It may not seem obvious to all who read this passage that the woman saved from stoning is, in fact, a scapegoat. One could read it as simply another attempt…
Uncategorized Think yourself better: 10 rules of philosophy to live by https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/feb/04/think-yourself-better-10-rules-of-philosophy-to-live-by
David McRaney How do minds change? I looked for a scientist who could help me answer a question I had never really considered asking, one that was now making my brain itch. Why do we argue?…
