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/
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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 most powerful government, the most successful business, the most thriving economy, the most influential leadership, the greatest friendship, the strongest character, the deepest love. On
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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, this is an important conversation to have. https://developmentalist.org/article/making-peace-with-americas-history-by-honoring-both-indigenous-and-european-traditions/
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by Kaitlin Curtice https://open.substack.com/pub/kaitlincurtice/p/10-books-to-help-us-resist?r=1ewbq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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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 – a strapping, commanding man in his sixties who looked like he’d once played quarterback on his high school football team – had given a
“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
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 systems, a group of firms vying to win the same clients, or a school with required grading curves and more demand than supply for desirable
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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 evangelicals. https://religionnews.com/2023/02/08/a-third-of-americans-are-christian-nationalists-and-most-are-white-evangelicals/
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“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/
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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 century, the area west of the Mississippi was considered Indian Country. This was where the tribes had been relocated to, with the promise that they
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Whatever happened to #Pluralism? https://religionnews.com/2023/02/07/why-the-he-gets-us-super-bowl-ads-make-jews-nervous/
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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 writes, “The counter-narratives of race talk are extremely threatening to Whites and to our society because they may unmask the secrets of power and privilege,
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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/
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https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-vp-harris-touts-42b-private-sector-investment-central-america-2023-02-06/
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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 to trap Jesus or an example of what happens when keepers of the law hold a criminal to the letter of the law. But such
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/feb/04/think-yourself-better-10-rules-of-philosophy-to-live-by
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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? What purpose does it serve? Is all this bickering online helping or hurting us? I invited the famed cognitive scientist Hugo Mercier, an expert on
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