How America Fractured Into Four Parts
by George Packer in The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/07/george-packer-four-americas/619012/
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A Christian response to climate change
A Christian response to climate change begins with reclaiming the intimate connection humans once had with creation through simple practices
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How My Momma Saved Me From Racism
by Jeff Burns https://www.patheos.com/blogs/jeffburns/2021/06/how-my-momma-save-me-from-racism/
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An increasingly cutthroat social and economic contest
Some Americans have reacted to these many forms of dislocation by turning on their perceived adversaries in an increasingly cutthroat
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Faith Groups Launch New Curriculum in Bid to Address Surge in Christian Nationalism
https://www.newsweek.com/faith-groups-launch-new-curriculum-bid-address-surge-christian-nationalism-1606701
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Gay couple wins case against florist after Supreme Court rejects appeal
LGBTQ advocates hailed the Court’s affirmation of anti-discrimination law https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/gay-couple-wins-case-florist-supreme-court-rejects/story?id=78631214
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Opinion | I’ve Been a Critical Race Theorist for 30 Years. Our Opponents Are Just Proving Our Point For Us.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/06/30/critical-race-theory-lightning-rod-opinion-497046
Embedded in how American institutions and systems function
Centuries of racial discrimination and injustice are the foundation upon which current social and economic institutions stand. Education, for example,
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To Unite a Divided America, Make People Work for It
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/02/opinion/compulsory-national-service-america.html
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How Brandan Robertson, a.k.a. the ‘Tik-Tok Preacher,’ Is Taking on the Anti-LGBTQ Teachings of His Faith
Congratulations Brandan! https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/tiktok-preacher-brandan-robertson-lgbtq-faith-1185814/
An age of technological acceleration
It is one of the great truisms of our time that we live in an age of technological acceleration; the
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Latest First Nations discovery reveals 182 unmarked graves at Canada school
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/30/canada-first-nations-unmarked-graves-indigenous-residential-school-british-columbia
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UN human rights chief calls for reparations over racism
from the BBC https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57646933
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The only way through all of this
Yet as I wallowed in grief, I realized I was not alone. This is how most of the world has
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Identity Politics
The United States was founded on the principle that all people are created equal. Yet the nation began with the
The burden we have carried and continue to carry
As an African American woman, I’m acutely aware that many of us bear the weight of reconciliation in our bodies.
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Jesus calls us
This book focuses on the type of progressive Christian political engagement championed by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and
The link between political leaders and prominent white churches was not just incidental
It would not be until I was well into a PhD program at Emory University in my thirties that I
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Creative tension-holding
If we want to “create a politics worthy of the human spirit,” we must find ways to bridge our differences,
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The paradox
Paradox is that strange place where two things are true at the same time. Often, the two things seem diametrically