It’s Time for a Franciscan Renaissance
By Brian McLaren and Patrick Carolan https://email.cac.org/t/d-e-vtyhiyk-iufowjr-s/
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Bad Indian
From “The Land is Not Empty: Following Jesus in Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery” by Sarah Augustine I am a
The Call to Change Sides
Marie Dennis, Cynthia Moe-Lobeda, Joseph Nangle, and Stuart Taylor, St. Francis and the Foolishness of God, rev. ed.(Maryknoll, NY: Orbis
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The stance of silence was not simply about fear but about survival
From “US: The Resurrection of American Terror” by Rev. Kenneth W. Wheeler My father was a proud Black man but
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Microsoft and Paige are building the world’s largest AI model for detecting cancer
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/07/microsoft-paige-building-worlds-largest-ai-model-to-detect-cancer.html
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Religious conservatives changed their views to justify their preferred candidate
From “20 Myths about Religion and Politics in America” by Ryan P. Burge I was born in the early 1980s
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Think reparations are impossible? The story of Japanese Americans proves otherwise
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/04/japanese-americans-incarceration-reparations-slavery?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Without the conformists, the great atrocities would have been impossible
From “On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century” by Timothy Snyder When we think of the Nazi Holocaust of
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Trump’s criminal ‘speech acts’ vs free speech
https://open.substack.com/pub/framelab/p/trumps-criminal-speech-acts-vs-free?r=1ewbq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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Lego to sell bricks coded with braille to help vision-impaired children read
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/aug/24/lego-to-sell-bricks-coded-with-braille-to-help-vision-impaired-children-read
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The neglected value
From “Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success” by Adam Grant Dormant ties offer the access to novel
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Pope says some ‘backward’ conservatives in US Catholic Church have replaced faith with ideology
https://apnews.com/article/pope-francis-vatican-conservatives-abortion-us-bbfc346c117bd9ae68a1963478bea6b3
The Lost Boys of the American Right
A free New York Times article
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Grief
From “Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future” by Patty Krawec Grief is the
Once the church became involved with the pursuit of politics and power…
From “Scapegoats: The Gospel Through the Eyes of Victims” by Jennifer Garcia Bashaw The early Christians set an inspiring example
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It was there, and only there, that a single conversation could change someone’s mind.
From “How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion” by David McRaney “There is no superior argument,
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The Threats Americans Feel
From “The Seven Democratic Virtues: What You Can Do to Overcome Tribalism and Save Our Democracy” by Christopher Beem As
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Mississippi was the crown jewel of white supremacy
From “US: The Resurrection of American Terror” by Rev. Kenneth W. Wheeler Mississippi is a place of terror if you
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Hindsight Bias
From “20 Myths about Religion and Politics in America” by Ryan P. Burge One of the most revelatory things I