The Confederate Flag, Fear, and a Woman Named Bree Newsome
by Susan K. Smith Ten days after Dylann Roof murdered eight people and their pastor at Emanuel AME Church in […]
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French church abuse victims get reparations, and recognition
France’s Catholic bishops’ conference agreed to provide reparations after a 2021 report estimated some 330,000 children were sexually abused over
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Anti-scapegoating work remains to be done
It is tempting to look back over the history of scapegoating women and breathe a sigh of relief: “Whew! It
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All persuasion is self-persuasion
More specifically, as psychologist Richard N. Perloff explained years ago in his book The Dynamics of Persuasion, we can avoid
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Virtues for a Democracy
So what virtues are most relevant for a democratic society? What virtues help us live together and even thrive in
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Meet the organization preserving and promoting the stories of Black Methodists
After funding from the United Methodist Church General Conference ended and in-person events were put on hold during the COVID-19
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Faith leaders urge Biden to sign executive order for reparations study by Juneteenth
They urged Biden to base an order on the structure of H.R. 40, legislation proposed for decades that has yet
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The Doctrine of Discovery
The foundational documents of the Doctrine of Discovery are a series of papal bulls, or legal decrees, created by the
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Poll: Support for abortion rights is strong, even among most religious groups
The outliers are white evangelicals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Latter-day Saints and Hispanic Protestants. https://religionnews.com/2023/02/23/poll-support-for-abortion-rights-is-strong-even-among-most-religious-groups/
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The One Thing That Changes Everything
There is one thing that is common to every individual, relationship, team, family, organization, nation, economy, and civilization throughout the
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Making Peace with America’s History By Honoring Both Indigenous and European Traditions
You may or may not agree with all of the points made in this article. (Personally I find there are
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10 Books To Help Us Resist
by Kaitlin Curtice https://open.substack.com/pub/kaitlincurtice/p/10-books-to-help-us-resist?r=1ewbq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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As Book Bans and Legislative Attacks Escalate, the New Press Pushes Back
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“I’ve never seen a patient who needed major surgery refuse a general anesthetic because the anesthesiologist couldn’t explain precisely how it works.”
I also thought of a continuing education symposium I’d attend at Harvard Medical School a year or two before Isaiah
We whose ancestors owned slaves want to make amends – but nations must also pay their due
“My family owned plantations, made profits and was compensated, but the personal atonement of my generation can only ever be
By encouraging us to expect the worst in others it brings out the worst in us
People who prefer to give or match often feel pressured to lean in the taker direction when they perceive a
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Poll: A third of Americans are Christian nationalists and most are white evangelicals
A new PRRI survey finds that 10% of Americans are avowed Christian nationalists and an additional 19% are sympathetic to
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The Most Important Job Skill of This Century
“Like writing and coding before it, prompt engineering is an emergent form of thinking.” https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/02/openai-text-models-google-search-engine-bard-chatbot-chatgpt-prompt-writing/672991/
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The ethnic cleansing of the West
Military aggression took many forms. Two examples, separated by about thirty years, capture and in some ways bookend the ethnic
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Why the ‘He Gets Us’ Super Bowl ads make Jews nervous
Whatever happened to #Pluralism? https://religionnews.com/2023/02/07/why-the-he-gets-us-super-bowl-ads-make-jews-nervous/
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