Six million Americans carried guns daily in 2019, twice as many as in 2015
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/25/how-many-americans-carry-guns-daily
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/25/how-many-americans-carry-guns-daily
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A big aspect of the healing is going to be a sincere, heartfelt apology by the different denominations that participated,’ said one survivor. https://religionnews.com/2022/11/23/what-does-healing-look-like-to-survivors-of-the-u-s-indian-boarding-school-system/
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by Shea Darian https://doinggrief.com/the-grief-in-our-gratitude/
The Grief in Our Gratitude: National Day of Mourning Read More »
Christ-followers today might be at a loss to explain how the church could have even participated in, much less led, the destructive scapegoating of women in the past. Questions abound; How did clergy justify words and actions that were dehumanizing and even deadly to women? How could Christians have strayed so far away from the
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The shelf life of racism depends on whether we can be honest about it. Many Americans of faith, specifically white Christians, reject their complicity in racism and claim to be nonracists. However, nonracist is not a real ethical orientation. We are either racist or anti-racist; there is no neutral, passive third way. Ibram X. Kendi
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‘The government protects historical churches and other important religious landmarks, and our site deserves no less protection,’ Apache Stronghold founder Wendsler Nosie Sr. said. https://religionnews.com/2022/11/17/apaches-get-rehearing-in-fight-to-preserve-oak-flat-a-sacred-site-in-arizona/
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by Paul Brandeis Raushenbush https://religionnews.com/2022/11/16/the-respect-for-marriage-act-protects-my-family-and-my-faith/
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When I (John) was a little boy, the only black people I saw were on TV playing baseball. Bob Gibson. Maury Wills. Hank Aaron. WIllie Mays. Willie McCovey. Jim Gilliam. Ernie Banks. John Roseboro. FIfty years later, their names flow effortlessly onto the page. The fact that they were black was of no more interest
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by Amy Julia Becker – NavPress Purchase from: A Gentle Invitation into the Challenging Topic of PrivilegeGently addressing the challenging topics of privilege and race, power and inequality, White Picket Fences is a memoir of Amy Julia Becker’s growing awareness of the unequal benefits (and secret harm) she received by virtue of her white skin,
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At his many talks and conferences, john powell,” the head of the Othering and Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley, likes to tell the story of a pastor who, hearing that he ought to build bridges with people who are very different from him, asked powell a tricky question, “john, are you saying I should bridge
Voters in Alabama, Oregon, Tennessee, and Vermont all approved measures to close this loophole. While none will immediately stop forced labor at prisons, the measures open the door for legal challenges to how the states use prison labor. Louisiana voted down an attempt to make changes to its constitutional language on slavery after the ballot
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https://news.yahoo.com/word-homosexual-bible-mistake-explosive-082916707.html
In this book, I want to persuade you that we underestimate the success of givers like David Hornik. Although we often stereotype givers as chumps and doormats, they turn out to be surprisingly successful. To figure out why givers dominate the top of the success ladder, we’ll examine startling studies and stories that illuminate how
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This is a time for you to use the power granted by your privilege to elevate others’ voices and to make substantial changes wherever possible. Next, let’s think through what local faith communities can do to utilize this strange power. When I was serving as the pastor of a church, I wrestled with this question
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Black church leaders and activists in Georgia rallied Sunday in a longstanding tradition known as “Souls to the Polls” that has greater meaning in this year’s midterms as legislation presents new obstacles to casting a ballot. https://religionnews.com/2022/10/31/black-church-tradition-survives-georgias-voting-changes/
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by Adam Russell Taylor at Sojourners https://sojo.net/articles/being-apolitical-wont-heal-polarized-churches
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Some people say you can’t change behavior. But there is clear evidence, to indicate that people can and do change behavior – sometimes dramatically – and that doing so often produces extraordinary results. Look at Anwar Sadat, who changed his anti-Israel behavior so dramatically that he brought Egypt and Israel, two long-standing enemies, together to
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By the late 1800s, most Indians, those whose tribes were recognized by state or federal governments, had disappeared from the American landscape into their reservations. It would not be long before their children would disappear too – taken from those reservations into federally funded and mandated boarding schools. In 1891, a new law allowed US
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/10/26/right-wing-radio-station/
At small-town radio station, the right-wing misinformation effort goes local Read More »
Bad news… https://newrepublic.com/article/168180/growing-religious-alliance-ban-lgbtq-books
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