Holy Chaos
I begin by laying the groundwork for our shared labor with definitions, as defined by Merriam-Webster and me. holy exalted […]
Is Anyone Taking Care of the Wounded Healers?
By Jennie McLaurin Humanitarian workers are crucial to our collective survival… but they are not okay. https://www.christianitytoday.com/better-samaritan/2021/october/is-anyone-taking-care-of-wounded-healers.html
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Ridding yourself of your negative emotions
Researchers say that negative emotions—fear, envy, greed, entitlement, resentment, anger, and regret—block gratitude, causing “self-alienation,” broken relationships, and profound unhappiness,
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We successfully weathered that storm once, and we can do it again
Perhaps the single most important lesson we can hope to gain from this analysis is that in the past America
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Openness and connectivity may, in the end, be more valuable
The pattern of “competition” is an excellent case in point. Every economics textbook will tell you that competition between rival
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For herd animals like us
Now when it comes to intellectual doubt, you’re dealing primarily with your meaning module, the part of your brain committee
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US Muslims gave more to charity than other Americans in 2020
Muslim Americans gave more to charity in 2020 than non-Muslims, a new study found. They are also more likely to
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We have the moral responsibility to open our eyes and see our society more truthfully
If we want to understand racism in the U.S., as uncomfortable as it might be for us, we have the
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Convictions
Our response is framed by seven core convictions that we believe are foundational to a constructive engagement with the work
Study: Most white evangelicals don’t want to live in a religiously diverse country
The new American Values Survey from PRRI also shows that 60% of white evangelicals believe the 2020 presidential election was
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This tribe helped the Pilgrims survive for their first Thanksgiving. They still regret it 400 years later.
Long marginalized and misrepresented in U.S. history, the Wampanoags are bracing for the 400th anniversary of the first Pilgrim Thanksgiving
The Pathology Model vs. the Neurodiversity Paradigm
If you aren’t sure that a pathology paradigm is so bad, I want to simply place the language of pathology
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Racial hierarchy
Most Euro-Americans were not, and would likely never be, the wealthy aristocrat who had every social and economic privilege in
Montanans used to live and let live. Today bitter confrontations dim Big Sky Country.
from The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/montana-extreme-trump/2021/10/22/0f82afbc-0037-11ec-a664-4f6de3e17ff0_story.html
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A letter from Jourdon
Dayton, Ohio August 7, 1865 To My Old Master, Colonel P. H. Anderson, Big Spring, Tennessee Sir: I got your
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Denial is the heartbeat of racism
It is hard for me to believe I finished high school in the year 2000 touting so many racist ideas.
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‘Nobody cares I have nowhere to live’: wildland firefighters struggle with homelessness
As wildfires consume the American west, economic uncertainty plagues those tasked with containing them https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/21/wildland-firefighters-struggle-homelessness
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Voting is a covenant. We’ll use our pulpits to demand it be supported.
By Auburn Senior Fellows https://religionnews.com/2021/10/20/voting-is-a-covenant-well-use-our-pulpits-to-demand-it-be-supported/
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The Christian faith is based upon being committed to God’s dream for us personally and communally
The Christian faith is based upon being committed to God’s dream for us personally and communally. Our living creatively into
I didn’t know why it was so hard for me
I survived my childhood. I got through elementary school even though I did no homework, never studied for quizzes or
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