Patriot games: CRT, Christian nationalism and a battle for the real truth of America
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Faith Groups Launch New Curriculum in Bid to Address Surge in Christian Nationalism
https://www.newsweek.com/faith-groups-launch-new-curriculum-bid-address-surge-christian-nationalism-1606701
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Gay couple wins case against florist after Supreme Court rejects appeal
LGBTQ advocates hailed the Court’s affirmation of anti-discrimination law https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/gay-couple-wins-case-florist-supreme-court-rejects/story?id=78631214
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Opinion | I’ve Been a Critical Race Theorist for 30 Years. Our Opponents Are Just Proving Our Point For Us.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/06/30/critical-race-theory-lightning-rod-opinion-497046
Embedded in how American institutions and systems function
Centuries of racial discrimination and injustice are the foundation upon which current social and economic institutions stand. Education, for example, is touted as a way for persons to participate fully in the American dream of opportunity and resourceful living. Schools, however, report major disparities in the educational achievement of Black and Hispanic students when compared
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To Unite a Divided America, Make People Work for It
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/02/opinion/compulsory-national-service-america.html
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How Brandan Robertson, a.k.a. the ‘Tik-Tok Preacher,’ Is Taking on the Anti-LGBTQ Teachings of His Faith
Congratulations Brandan! https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/tiktok-preacher-brandan-robertson-lgbtq-faith-1185814/
An age of technological acceleration
It is one of the great truisms of our time that we live in an age of technological acceleration; the new paradigms keep rolling in, and the intervals between them keep shortening. This acceleration reflects not only the flood of new products, but also our growing willingness to embrace these strange new devices, and put
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Latest First Nations discovery reveals 182 unmarked graves at Canada school
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/30/canada-first-nations-unmarked-graves-indigenous-residential-school-british-columbia
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UN human rights chief calls for reparations over racism
from the BBC https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57646933
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The only way through all of this
Yet as I wallowed in grief, I realized I was not alone. This is how most of the world has lived for most of history. Rarely are leaders on the side of the people. Quite often, there are radically different views and experiences within societies and even within individual families. In the United States, people
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Identity Politics
The United States was founded on the principle that all people are created equal. Yet the nation began with the attempted genocide of Indigenous people and the theft of their land. American wealth was built on the labor of kidnapped and enslaved Africans and their descendents. Women were denied the right to vote until 1920,
The burden we have carried and continue to carry
As an African American woman, I’m acutely aware that many of us bear the weight of reconciliation in our bodies. This is not some social experiment for us. The call to reconciliation takes a toll on us. It takes something out of us to keep being the weather vane or the canary in the coal
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Jesus calls us
This book focuses on the type of progressive Christian political engagement championed by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and many others in the public square and outside the walls of the church. Entering the story of progressive Christianity in the United States in the midst of a theological battle might seem like an odd
The link between political leaders and prominent white churches was not just incidental
It would not be until I was well into a PhD program at Emory University in my thirties that I was confronted with the brutal violence that white Christians deployed to resist black enfranchisement following the Civil War. The theologically backed assertion of the superiority of both “the white race” and Protestant Christianity undergirded a
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Creative tension-holding
If we want to “create a politics worthy of the human spirit,” we must find ways to bridge our differences, whether they are defined by age, gender, class, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or political ideology. Then we must seek patches of common ground on the issues we care most about. This is more than
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The paradox
Paradox is that strange place where two things are true at the same time. Often, the two things seem diametrically opposed. This idea that two things can be true at the same time is foundational to understanding good white racism. Statements like “You are a good person, and you are also a racist” are, essentially,
A drift toward self-centeredness
Indeed, many of the corporate titans who dominate the American imagination live by an ideology of individualism that barely masks selfishness and an air of superiority. A philosophy of supreme self-reliance is common, and the pursuit of unfettered self-interest is considered a laudable ethic to live by. The idea that one must do what is
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6 Ways To Embrace True Inclusion In Your Faith Community
by Brandan Robertson https://chalicepress.com/blogs/news/6-ways-to-embrace-true-inclusion-in-your-faith-community
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Significantly more innovative
Working out of the legendary Santa Fe Institute, where he served as president until 2009, West assembled an international team of researchers and advisers to collect data on dozens of cities around the world, measuring everything from crime to house-hold electrical consumption, from new patents to gasoline sales. When they finally crunched the numbers, West
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Caught in a culture war, this multiracial family navigates a predominantly White evangelical world
by Sarah Pulliam Bailey https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2021/06/01/evangelical-christian-race-southern-baptist/