Uncategorized French church abuse victims get reparations, and recognition France’s Catholic bishops’ conference agreed to provide reparations after a 2021 report estimated some 330,000 children were sexually abused over 70 years by priests or other church-related figures in France.…
Jennifer Garcia Bashaw Anti-scapegoating work remains to be done It is tempting to look back over the history of scapegoating women and breathe a sigh of relief: “Whew! It is a good thing we don’t live in those archaic…
David McRaney All persuasion is self-persuasion More specifically, as psychologist Richard N. Perloff explained years ago in his book The Dynamics of Persuasion, we can avoid coercion by sticking to symbolic communication in the form of…
Christopher Beem Virtues for a Democracy So what virtues are most relevant for a democratic society? What virtues help us live together and even thrive in a democracy? To get at that question, we have to…
Uncategorized Meet the organization preserving and promoting the stories of Black Methodists After funding from the United Methodist Church General Conference ended and in-person events were put on hold during the COVID-19 pandemic, the AAMHC is looking for donations in order to…
Uncategorized Faith leaders urge Biden to sign executive order for reparations study by Juneteenth They urged Biden to base an order on the structure of H.R. 40, legislation proposed for decades that has yet to pass on Capitol Hill. https://religionnews.com/2023/03/01/faith-leaders-urge-biden-to-sign-executive-order-for-reparations-study-by-juneteenth/
Sarah Augustine The Doctrine of Discovery The foundational documents of the Doctrine of Discovery are a series of papal bulls, or legal decrees, created by the Christian church that explain why Europeans alone deserve to own…
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…
