Abundant Life: A Kin-dom Ethic of Flourishing
by Amanda Udis-Kessler, May 29, 2021; written for the online LGBTQ+ Christian journal Whosoever; updated September 28, 2022 I believe […]
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The idea of going through the day with little to no consideration of one’s skin color remains foreign to non-White people
Silence serves White privilege and threatens non-White survival. I will later argue that White privilege benefits White people. But the
In hometown of St. Francis of Assisi, pope touts ‘radical criticism’ of capitalism
by Claire Giangravé https://religionnews.com/2022/09/26/in-hometown-of-st-francis-of-assisi-pope-puts-forward-radical-criticism-of-capitalism/
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Midterms Got You Down? 5 Ways People of Faith Can Take Action
by Adam Russell Taylor of Sojourners https://sojo.net/articles/midterms-got-you-down-5-ways-people-faith-can-take-action
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Opinion: ‘Braver Angels’ could show us all the way to strengthen our American democracy
by Mark G. Contreras https://www.ctpost.com/opinion/article/Opinion-Braver-Angels-could-show-us-all-17459454.php
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The 7 Low-Trust Organizational Taxes
Redundancy Redundancy is unnecessary duplication. Of course, redundant mission-critical systems and data management are necessary. But a redundancy tax is
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Why virtue signaling isn’t the same as virtue – it actually furthers the partisan divide
Virtue signaling is designed to communicate specifically to one partisan tribe and to affirm its moral superiority. A scholar of
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Sweeping it under the rug
Much of the world is implicated in the crime and the coverup. Britain couldn’t have become “Great” without their work
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Biden includes faith leaders in summit’s charge to ‘rise together against hate’
by Adele M. Banks https://religionnews.com/2022/09/16/biden-includes-faith-leaders-in-summits-charge-to-rise-together-against-hate/ “There’s a throughline of hate, from massacres of Indigenous people to the original sin of
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White imperial Christianity
Fast forward to the age of the United States of America. While the nation was not technically founded as a
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Self-indulgent desire for relief
“Unsolicited confessions [from white people to Black people] inspired by a sense of guilt are often poured over Black bodies
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The Pain is a Mirror
Rather than fixating on the way our adolescents dress and talk – not to mention their paradoxical willingness to use
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What we think about the other party
After the 2018 midterms, a group of researchers took a snapshot of 2,100 Republicans’ and Democrats’ political views (of all
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In ‘Learning Our Names,’ Asian American Christian authors reclaim their stories
from Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2022/09/06/in-learning-our-names-asian-american-christian-authors-reclaim-their-stories/ And you can enjoy our interview with two authors of the book here: https://youtu.be/IkKgNpcnvAI
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We do not really find something until we first lose it, ignore it, miss it, long for it, choose it
Sooner or later, if you are on any classic “spiritual schedule,” some event, person, death, idea, or relationship will enter
This was a liberating Jesus
When I left South Africa, I didn’t want anything to do with a Jesus who endorsed colonialism, the slaughter of
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Scientists pinpoint brain region responsible for effortful helping behaviour
Altruistic behaviour takes place in a different part of the brain to similar activity to help oneself, new research has
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To rationalize what you already want to do
My academic mentor, ethicist Glen Stassen, once told a story that sums up why people, even moral people, do terrible
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New book invites Christians to rethink homelessness
from Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2022/08/09/new-book-invites-christians-to-rethink-homelessness/ You can also see our interview of the book’s author Kevin Nye (“Grace Can Lead
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Google Finds ‘Inoculating’ People Against Misinformation Helps Blunt Its Power
British researchers and a team from Google found that teaching people how to spot misinformation made people more skeptical of
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Slavery was an act of war
Speaking with Bob Zellner, veteran organizer with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, I asked, “What drove White people to fight
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