The Christian faith is based upon being committed to God’s dream for us personally and communally

The Christian faith is based upon being committed to God’s dream for us personally and communally. Our living creatively into the future involves our devotion to the compelling vision of God’s realm of shalom. This is a major biblical theme in Judaism and Christianity. Throughout the sacred Scriptures, God is longing for a people who …

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How we think about racism is largely determined by our own particular race

For my friend stranded in the unlit parking lot, fearing the black man who ultimately came to her aid revealed her unconscious bias based on skin color and stereotypes. For her, and for many whites racism is commonly understood as prejudicial attitudes and behaviors grounded in a belief that race is the primary determinant of …

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Hypocrisy and self-deception proved to be far greater dangers than uncertainty

Of course, now that I’m a bit older and have had my own skirmishes with self-sabotage, I’ve come to wonder if my colleagues and I had it all wrong. It wasn’t moral and theological certitude that helped some of us stay more or less moral; it was moral and theological honesty. The greatest threat to …

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Americans are “broadly pessimistic” about the future

Our ongoing failure to achieve racial and gender equality and inclusion is a deeply troubling aspect of our national life – indeed one that violates foundational principles of the American project. However, it is far from the only problem our country now faces. In politics we’re fighting in exceptionally angry ways, in economics the gap …

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Father Lucas recalled one zealous priest standing on the church steps with a bullwhip to discourage any blacks from attending services.

As blacks began to pour into northern cities to escape oppression in the South as part of the “great migration” in the early nineteen hundreds, the Catholic Church responded by modifying its long-standing policy of assigning Catholics to parishes based on where they lived. In his 1970 book Black Priest, White Church:Catholics and Racism, Father …

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A more “we” society

During these decades Americans became – perhaps more than ever before – focused on what we could accomplish together. And this sense of shared responsibility and collective progress was not simply some victory lap after overcoming the Great Depression and defeating the Axis powers, as many have suggested. As this chart makes clear, and as …

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Innovation

This is a book about the space of innovation. Some environments squelch new ideas; some environments seem to breed them effortlessly. The city and the Web have been such engines of innovation because, for complicated historical reasons, they are both environments that are powerfully suited for the creation, diffusion, and adoption of good ideas. Neither …

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Racial Awareness and Mindfulness Festival 2021

Learn more and register here: http://raf2021.eventbrite.com/ On Saturday October 16, 2021, people across the globe are invited to come together in unity to experience a festival designed to help average people develop greater racial awareness and a deeper reflection on the harmful and sometimes unconscious effects of lingering racial disparities and racist systems in U.S. …

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