Framing 101: Some brains you just can’t change
https://open.substack.com/pub/framelab/p/framing-101-some-brains-you-just?r=1ewbq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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Healing
From “Designed to Heal: What the Body Shows Us About Healing Wounds, Repairing Relationships, and Restoring Community” by Jennie A.
The best summary of my Christian faith
From “Filled to Be Emptied: The Path to Liberation for Privileged People” by Brandan Robertson – Westminster John Knox Press
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Without a College Degree, Life in America Is Staggeringly Shorter
A free gift article from the NY Times
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Without White people qualitatively and quantitively transforming anything real
From “Silencing White Noise: Six Practices to Overcome Our Inaction on Race” by Willie Dwayne Francois III Due to white
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Kim Davis is ordered to pay $100,000 to same-sex couple she denied marriage license
https://www.npr.org/2023/09/14/1199477637/kim-davis-same-sex-marriage-license-ordered-to-pay-damages
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ELCA hears from Indigenous boarding school survivor ahead of National Day of Remembrance
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is one of several mainline denominations reckoning with the role they played in the
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Our Inner Blueprint
From “Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life” by Richard Rohr Whether we find our True Self
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Columbus was a White Christian Nationalist
By Jim Wallis We shouldn’t celebrate his deeds. We should repent of them. https://open.substack.com/pub/jimwallis/p/columbus-was-a-white-christian-nationalist?r=1ewbq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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Do Less Harm
From “Recovering Racists: Dismantling White Supremacy and Reclaiming Our Humanity” by Idelette McVicker This book is not a hero’s journey.
An INTOIT Moment
From “I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times” by Mónica
Banned in the USA: The Mounting Pressure to Censor
Fro PEN America https://pen.org/report/book-bans-pressure-to-censor/
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Want to Solve Polarization? Encourage More People to Volunteer
By Eboo Patel https://www.philanthropy.com/article/want-to-solve-polarization-encourage-more-people-to-volunteer
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When Trust Is Low; When Trust Is High
From “The Speed of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything” by Stephen M. R. Covey Here’s another example on
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Syncing up
From “The Awakened Brain: The New Science of Spirituality and Our Quest for an Inspired Life” by Lisa Miller, PhD
“Real and actual violence is only becoming increasingly more likely”
Some very smart people discuss the potential future impact of Trump/MAGA. https://www.salon.com/2023/09/08/experts-warn-that-accountability-for-donald-could-come-at-a-cost-to-democracy/
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Powerless communication
From “Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success” by Adam Grant Research suggests that there are two fundamental
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We are defeating global poverty. Congress could set us back.
Far-right Republicans are insisting on deep cuts in domestic and international poverty programs — though we have ample evidence both
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Land Back
From “Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future” by Patty Krawec We can’t talk