We need to know where we are
I sit on my porch swing on North High Street in Hartford City, Indiana, waiting out a lazy shower on […]
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Everybody wasn’t operating in their own rational economic self-interest
On the day Donald Trump was to take the oath of office in 2017, I’d been the president of Demos
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Angie Thomas: Writing a Better Future
An interview from The Telos Channel – listen to it here What does it take to imagine a future better
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Something in us
Something in us wants to belong. But something in us also wants to be free, to be authentic, to be
Robert E. Lee statue in Charlottesville will be melted down into artwork
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Three suggestions
So, what can we do? Where do we go from here? Can I offer three suggestions? First, if you’re white,
After COP26: What should Christians do next?
Climate change is not simply a technical, policy or engineering issue. It is above all a moral and spiritual issue
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How then does one begin?
For many years I believed and hoped that altering psychological processes like changing the master status, making people aware of
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Faith Matters Podcast
Healing a Divided Country — A Conversation with Dan Vallone, the US Director for More in Common, a nonprofit foundation whose
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It’s the most ‘angry’ time of the year?
By Robert P. Jones – A new survey highlights just how angry vaccinated and unvaccinated Americans are with each other
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Affirmative action
The idea of affirmative action looms large in the white imagination and has been a passion among conservative activists. Some
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Dueling consciousness
White people have their own dueling consciousness, between the segregationist and the assimilationist: the slave trader and the missionary, the
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Faithful Creation Care
Check out this Q&A from the 2021 Wild Goose Festival: Faithful Creation Care with Brian McLaren, Miriam Smith, Scott Hardin-Nieri, Susannah Tuttle
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The Personal Struggle
As powerful as these social obstacles are, they are not the heart of the struggle to see. The most powerful
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Why do I tell this story?
Why do I tell this story in light of the abuse and murder of autistic children? And why do I
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Kirsten Powers interview on The Bible for Normal People Podcast
In this episode, Kirsten Powers joins Pete and Jared to discuss toxic public discourse, non-dualistic thinking, and a look at
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The zero sum is a story by wealthy interests for their own profit
In decade after decade, threats of job competition – between men and women, immigrants and native born. Black and white
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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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