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March 2023
Free Speech Doesn’t Mean Free Rein to Shout Down Others
from the New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/23/opinion/free-speech-campus.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Report: LGBTQ Americans tend to be younger and have no religion
The new report from PRRI also found that many religious Americans support LGBTQ nondiscrimination rights, even those who oppose same sex-marriage. https://religionnews.com/2023/03/23/prri-report-lgbtq-americans-tend-to-be-young-and-have-no-religion/
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‘Purple church’ pastors mull leadership strategies in polarizing times
The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of North Carolina held a leadership forum to help pastors figure out how to speak out without alienating half of their members. https://religionnews.com/2023/03/27/purple-church-pastors-mull-leadership-strategies-in-polarizing-times/
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Trust/confidence and distrust/suspicion
Simply put, trust means confidence. The opposite of trust – distrust – is suspicion. When you trust people, you have confidence in them, in their integrity and in their abilities. When you distrust, you are suspicious of them – of their integrity, their agenda, their capabilities, or their track record. It’s that simple. We have
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Princeton Theological Seminary students, alumni seek ouster of trustee chair
‘The seminary needs a deeper reckoning,’ they wrote, ‘with its current relationship to and investment in modern systems of enslavement.’ https://religionnews.com/2023/03/21/princeton-theological-seminary-students-alumni-seek-ouster-of-trustee-chair/
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What was the mechanism of this connection?
I felt the same way about the inipi. My ability to explain what had happened didn’t obscure my absolute joy and wonder in the imminent arrival of two children. Dr. Dossey’s words ran through my mind. The nonlocality of consciousness. Paired with what we understood about quantum entanglement, nonlocal consciousness suggested that just as tiny
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“Who Woulda Thunk…A Semicolon”
“WHO WOULDA THUNK…A SEMICOLON”1 Rarely would I steal..not plagiarize..but steal a title from an author or organization…but the claim to this title belongs to a remarkable young woman who started a movement with a sentence about one of the most common things we see each day of our life: a semicolon. But, I am ahead
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Black, Evangelical and Torn
free article from the New York Times With America’s white conservatives increasingly drawn to Christian nationalism, many Black believers feel caught between their faith and the long shadow of history.
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Our New Promethean Moment
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Networks come with three major advantages
For centuries, we have recognized the importance of networking. According to Brian Uzzi, a management professor at Northwestern University, networks come with three major advantages: private information, diverse skills, and power. By developing a strong network, people can gain invaluable access to knowledge, expertise, and influence. Extensive research demonstrates that people with rich networks achieve
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Five charts that explain the desperate turn to MAGA among conservative white Christians
by Robert P. Jones https://religionnews.com/2023/03/14/five-charts-that-explain-the-desperate-turn-to-maga-among-conservative-white-christians/
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Slavery was abolished, but the beliefs that justified it were not.
Just as the Indian Removal Act of 1830 and the Dawes Act of 1887 were used to strip Native tribes of their land and force massive migrations that cleared the way for white land ownership, Reconstruction in the United States ensured that land remained in white hands. Immediately after the Civil War, some of the
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How can a poor man stand such times and live?
by Angela Denker https://open.substack.com/pub/angeladenker/p/how-can-a-poor-man-stand-such-times?r=1ewbq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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Author and priest Randall Balmer: ‘Sport has eclipsed religion as the US pastime’
In his new book, the scholar examines how religion shaped the history of major sports in North America https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/mar/13/author-and-priest-randall-balmer-sport-has-eclipsed-religion-as-the-us-pastime
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Young people flourish where faith leaders see color
If you ask young people to leave race at home, you might as well tell them to stay home, too. By Nabil Tueme https://religionnews.com/2023/03/13/young-people-flourish-where-faith-leaders-see-color/
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The battle to boost our deep sleep – and help stop dementia
The biological ‘brainwashing’ that happens while you are sleeping is crucial for filtering out toxins. Here’s how to optimise your overnight cycle. “The key thing to focus on is sleep quality, which means avoiding coffee, alcohol, exercise and electronic devices in the run-up to bed, and maintaining a dark bedroom overnight.” https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/mar/13/the-battle-to-boost-our-deep-sleep-and-help-stop-dementia?utm_term=640f1e5608adec74a91bb61f3b2bac5d&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUS&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=GTUS_email
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San Francisco’s Black residents could get a $5 million reparations payout
The city’s board of supervisors showed support for a plan to compensate eligible residents for slavery and systemic racism. https://qz.com/reparations-san-francisco-slavery-racism-1850227344
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“This is a message those other White people need to hear.”
In fall of 2015 I was part of a panel forum exploring the history and future of progressive faith communities at the intersections of gender, mass incarceration, and sexuality. During the question-and-answer time, a White attendee approached the microphone: “Rev. Francois, thank you for your talk. You rightly identified the insanity of racism in our
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The Confederate Flag, Fear, and a Woman Named Bree Newsome
by Susan K. Smith Ten days after Dylann Roof murdered eight people and their pastor at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, Bree Newsome traveled to Columbia, the state capital, intent on shaking the smug complacency of white supremacy. She had had enough, long before the tragic murders at the church, but this incident
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