Texas activist David Barton wants to end separation of church and state. He has the ear of the new U.S. House speaker.
A dangerous guy… https://www.texastribune.org/2023/11/03/david-barton-mike-johnson-texas-church-state-christianity/
How a bucolic Tennessee suburb became a hotbed of ‘Christian Nashville-ism’
The mix of religion, power, money and influence around Nashville and its suburbs makes it fertile ground for a Southern
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Rhythms of reparative intercession
From “Silencing White Noise: Six Practices to Overcome Our Inaction on Race” by Willie Dwayne Francois III – Brazos Press
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Kauai became a clean energy leader. Its secret? A publicly owned grid
“Hawaii constitutes an unusually crisp comparison between for-profit and nonprofit utilities: all the islands besides Kauai get power from investor-owned,
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We don’t keep the social and economic background of Jesus’ ministry in our minds
From “Scapegoats: The Gospel Through the Eyes of Victims” by Jennifer Garcia Bashaw – Fortress Press Roman-occupied Judea was a
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Persistent Pizza
By Patricia Raybon Ibrahim Songne, at age 12, immigrated to Italy from West Africa, not knowing Italian, fighting a stutter,
The unholy trinity of authoritarianism, religion and violence
By Jim Wallis https://open.substack.com/pub/jimwallis/p/the-unholy-trinity-of-authoritarianism?r=1ewbq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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As the rest of the world slowly rebuilt
From “The Seven Democratic Virtues: What You Can Do to Overcome Tribalism and Save Our Democracy” by Christopher Beem As
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Democratic decline in the United States: Strategic manipulation of elections
Distinct from “voter fraud,” which is almost non-existent in the United States, election manipulation includes election procedures that make it
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The Allotment Act
From “The Land is Not Empty: Following Jesus in Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery” by Sarah Augustine From invasion to
To tackle homelessness faster, LA has a kind of real estate agency for the unhoused
https://www.npr.org/2023/10/24/1207461308/homelessness-housing-losangeles-la-real-estate-unhoused
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Old Quebec church gets new lease on life as greenhouse to combat food insecurity
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-church-new-life-as-greenhouse-1.6997710
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Instilling self-hatred
From “US: The Resurrection of American Terror” by Rev. Kenneth W. Wheeler Segregation under the Jim Crow laws was not
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We need green hydrogen to clean up heavy industry. Who’s making it?
There’s essentially no clean hydrogen produced in the U.S. today, but developers are hustling to build projects to supply low-carbon
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Those with the least education are the most likely to indicate that they have no religious affiliation
From “20 Myths about Religion and Politics in America” by Ryan P. Burge With reinforcement such as this, the assumption
Flooded and forgotten: How Europe’s disused coal mines are successfully being used to heat our homes
https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/10/14/flooded-and-forgotten-how-europe-s-disused-coal-mines-could-help-heat-our-homes
Truth dies in four modes
From “On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century” by Timothy Snyder As observers of totalitarianism such as Victor Klemperer
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Poll: More religious Americans support the use of political violence
One-third of white evangelical Protestants support the idea, significantly more than any other religious group.
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A desire to simply move past the trauma
From “Reparations: A Christian Call for Repentance and Repair” by Duke L. Kwon and Gregory Thompson A fourth concern is
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Why they remain Christians
By Lesa Engelthaler, featuring Brian McLaren, Wil Gafney, and Aaron Manes https://edition.pagesuite.com/popovers/dynamic_article_popover.aspx?artguid=984ebdc3-d4c1-4dc2-9ca2-9fe2ea9b8860&appcode=DMNUAT&eguid=7037dfad-49f4-4ba5-88b6-aff9871d7e4d&pnum=161#
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