Uncategorized Or did they actually love other things In Holocaust literature, participation in the atrocities are described by types: perpetrators, victims, and bystanders. David Gushee’s assessment of the bystander is instructive, as it mirrors the moral posture of…
Uncategorized The beloved community and the heresy of white replacement by Robert P. Jones https://religionnews.com/2022/05/16/the-beloved-community-and-the-heresy-of-white-replacement/
Lisa Sharon Harper The Native American slave trade But Black oblivion is not the only kind of oblivion within American colonial slavocracy. Mystery compounds mystery with the southeastern states’ prolific investment in the Native American slave trade. Long…
Uncategorized Is There a Common Good Way to Talk About Abortion? Doug Pagitt sits down with Amanda Hambrick Ashcraft, pastor at Middle Church in NYC and Founder of Raising Imagination to discuss how we talk about Roe v. Wade and abortion.
Uncategorized The time to act to combat racism is now People who call Jesus their Lord and Savior can no longer afford to merely engage in idle, albeit distressed, conversation about racism. At best, the watching world reads our inaction…
Uncategorized Mothers you don’t want to mess with A Jim Wallis conversation Michigan Sen. Mallory McMorrow about faith, service and how she lit a fire under suburban moms https://jimwallis.substack.com/p/mothers-you-dont-want-to-mess-with?r=1ewbq&s=r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
Andre Henry Black rage is suppressed Virginia legislator James H. Gholson said in an 1831 speech “Our slave population is not a happy one, but it is a contented, peaceful and harmless one.” And because ideas…
Uncategorized Abortion, Racism and the True Origins of the Religious Right by Jemar Tisby As the Supreme Court seems poised to overturn Roe v. Wade we look at the Religious Right and the role race played before opposition to abortion https://jemartisby.substack.com/p/abortion-racism-and-the-true-origins?r=1ewbq&s=r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
Uncategorized Alito and Public Opinion Reveal the Link Between Roe and a Broader White Christian Nationalist Agenda 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
Uncategorized Finding solutions to our healthcare insurance crisis is a Christian issue By 2007, a record 47 million Americans were uninsured - either because they or their employers could no longer afford coverage, because they were not poor enough or old enough…
Uncategorized Restoring a relationship Most experts say that entrenched conflict is never solved by proving the correctness of an argument but is instead achieved by restoring a relationship. How much does “being right” matter…
Uncategorized Why Progressives & Moderates Need Each Other by Brandan Robertson https://www.patheos.com/blogs/revangelical/2020/03/06/why-progressives-moderates-need-each-other.html
Uncategorized State Sen. Mallory McMorrow on reclaiming faith from those using it as ‘a weapon to hate people’ The Michigan lawmaker, mother and LGBTQ rights backer who was falsely accused of wanting to "groom kids" by a Republican colleague drew widespread praise for defending herself in a 5-minute…
Uncategorized Their central issue was that God had not created humanity equal. The Puritans relied upon the Calvinist theology to which they adhered, as well as the Bible, to justify their belief that God had created some human beings inferior to them.…
Uncategorized Confronting Cultural Illiteracy: LGBTQ Books 2022 The recent spate of challenges to books with LGBTQ content has been met with equally vocal resistance from booksellers, librarians, parents, and other advocates. Caught in the middle are the…
Uncategorized Healthcare America’s healthcare debate began in the late 19th century, during the Industrial Revolution, when mill jobs led to workplace injuries and labor unions began advocating for sickness and injury protections.…
Uncategorized From Polarization to Healing: On Conflict Transformation with John Paul Lederach Carrie Newcomer & Parker J. Palmer interview John Paul Lederach https://mailchi.mp/carrienewcomer.com/nov-the-growing-edge-news-podcast-more-1095425?e=258dda3d35 John Paul Lederach is Professor Emeritus of International Peace Building, and an internationally respected expert in conflict transformation. John Paul…
Uncategorized Christian nationalism and the January 6, 2021 Insurrection Released February 9, 2022, this report is the most complete accounting to date of how Christian nationalism contributed to the events leading up to January 6 and the day of…
Uncategorized At the heart of our case for reparations At the heart of our case for reparations lies the claim that White supremacy is best understood as a massive, multigenerational project of cultural theft. In the name of White…
Uncategorized The Freedom to Write Index PEN America released its annual Freedom to Write Index, a global report on crackdowns on freedom of speech, with Myanmar joining China and Saudi Arabia as this year’s top jailers of…
Uncategorized What not to say “I would never have known; you don’t look autistic.” “Are you sure you have autism? You just need to learn to relax - smile, life’s not that bad. God is…
