From a theological lens, Christians assert that God chose to incarnate as a first-century Jewish man, as a member of […]
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South Carolina’s layered slave trades grew in complexity. The multiplying African population increased the terror of White settlers, who codified
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Many thanks to Calvary Presbyterian Church, San Francisco for hosting this Q&A about How to Heal Our Divides. I tell
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This means they will use the common good as a guiding principle in how they govern, what policies they advocate,
Let us say our priest asks for an additional Lunch Box volunteer one week. Many people can say, “Sure, I’ll
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Congress held a second hearing on book bans and censorship in the classroom, and considered, among other testimonies, a letter
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The logical extension of the zero-sum story is that a future without racism is something white people should fear, because
The old zero-sum paradigm is not just counterproductive; it’s a lie Read More »
In Holocaust literature, participation in the atrocities are described by types: perpetrators, victims, and bystanders. David Gushee’s assessment of the
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by Robert P. Jones https://religionnews.com/2022/05/16/the-beloved-community-and-the-heresy-of-white-replacement/
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But Black oblivion is not the only kind of oblivion within American colonial slavocracy. Mystery compounds mystery with the southeastern
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Doug Pagitt sits down with Amanda Hambrick Ashcraft, pastor at Middle Church in NYC and Founder of Raising Imagination to
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People who call Jesus their Lord and Savior can no longer afford to merely engage in idle, albeit distressed, conversation
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A Jim Wallis conversation Michigan Sen. Mallory McMorrow about faith, service and how she lit a fire under suburban moms
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Virginia legislator James H. Gholson said in an 1831 speech “Our slave population is not a happy one, but it
Black rage is suppressed Read More »
by Jemar Tisby As the Supreme Court seems poised to overturn Roe v. Wade we look at the Religious Right
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Attitudes on abortion are strongly correlated with a worldview that denies systemic racism and pines for a 1950s America. https://robertpjones.substack.com/p/alito-and-public-opinion-reveal-the?r=1ewbq&s=r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
By 2007, a record 47 million Americans were uninsured – either because they or their employers could no longer afford
Finding solutions to our healthcare insurance crisis is a Christian issue Read More »
Most experts say that entrenched conflict is never solved by proving the correctness of an argument but is instead achieved
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by Brandan Robertson https://www.patheos.com/blogs/revangelical/2020/03/06/why-progressives-moderates-need-each-other.html
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The Michigan lawmaker, mother and LGBTQ rights backer who was falsely accused of wanting to “groom kids” by a Republican
