The Golden Rule

From “Legacy: Wisdom of African Traditions and the Bible” by Chris Morehouse; forward by Therese Taylor-Stinson What is bad for you is not good for your neighbor. -Swahili (Kenya and Tanzania) Treat your neighbor justly and honestly. -Swahili (Kenya and Tanzania) What you do not like, do not do unto your neighbor. -Twi (Ghana) If

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Unsettling Questions

From “American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays The Gospel and Threatens The Church” by Andrew L. Whitehead If your faith journey has been anything like mine, you’ve likely wrestled with some big and important questions. Over the last twenty years or so, here are some that have unsettled me personally: These are difficult questions. Perhaps

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The price of democracy is our mutual commitment to our common life.

From “A House Divided: Engaging the Issues through the Politics of Compassion” by Mark Feldmeir As political theorist and community activist Saul Alinsky once said, “People cannot be truly free unless they are willing to sacrifice some of their interests to guarantee the freedom of others.” This is the very spirit of democracy. It is

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The flag

From “Know Your Place: Helping White, Southern Evangelicals Cope with the End of The(ir) World” by Justin R. Phillips Whiteness connects itself to patriotism and its symbols, because American values are held to be universal. The flag and the anthem represent the life provided for all Americans, but because America is not experienced equally, these

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Smart tech could help fix the biggest barrier to building clean energy

A new report finds that ​“grid-enhancing technologies” can help gigawatts of solar and wind leapfrog the clean energy logjam — and save a ton of money. The massive potential of GETs has driven utilities and grid operators in Europe and Australia to adopt the technology at significant scale over the past decade. The U.S. lags behind on that

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If you feel resentment, you are much more likely to be a Trump voter

From “The Seven Democratic Virtues: What You Can Do to Overcome Tribalism and Save Our Democracy” by Christopher Beem Behind these assessments of who, exactly, is suffering from discrimination lurks a more or less explicit sense of racial resentment. Republicans are more likely to see other races and ethnicities as threats to their way of

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