Trail of Tears
by Taylor Holbrook
Indian boarding schools
Indian boarding schools were an attempt by the governments of the United States and Canada to change the language, religion,
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Honest, consistent, collective speech
The one who practices racial truth-telling affects others by sharing “as directly as possible what he actually believes.” Racial truth-telling
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Women as Scapegoats
Society continues to separate women out as scapegoats by consigning them to gender-role stereotypes – the virgin, the shrew, the
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She led two historic victories for abortion rights – by persuading Republicans
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/01/rachel-sweet-abortion-victories-kentucky-kansas-republicans
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Why the Past Ten Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/05/social-media-democracy-trust-babel/629369/
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A Real Life Good Samaritan Story
by Jemar Tisby https://open.substack.com/pub/jemartisby/p/a-real-life-good-samaritan-story?r=1ewbq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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How Will You Measure Your Life in 2023?
https://www.christenseninstitute.org/blog/how-will-you-measure-your-life-in-2023-applying-business-theory-to-reflections-and-resolutions/
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A California church attempts reparations for historic redlining of Black homebuyers
The Black Wealth Builders Fund offers zero-interest loans to Black neighbors looking to purchase their first home. https://religionnews.com/2022/12/23/a-california-church-attempts-reparations-for-historic-redlining-of-black-homebuyers/
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The Five Waves of Trust
The First Wave: Self Trust The first wave, Self Trust, deals with the confidence we have in ourselves – in
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I witnessed an extraordinary act of kindness. What if altruism is more common than we think?
by Emma Wilkins https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/24/i-witnessed-an-extraordinary-act-of-kindness-what-if-altruism-is-more-common-than-we-think?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Quiet your achieving awareness
The twentieth-century views of the mind describe imagination as something we construct. Imagination is invention. Make-believe. But in awakened awareness,
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The male-dominated church structure that solidified in the fourth century
The male-dominated church structure that solidified in the fourth century would dominate Christianity for the next sixteen centuries. It would
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Why Do Stanford, Harvard and NASA Still Honor a Nazi Past?
from the New York Times (free article)
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Standing in the tragic gap
The stories, criticism, and practices in this book invite us into what I can reparative intercession. To be reparative intercessors
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Algorithm Warfare: How Elon Musk uses Twitter to control brains
Like Trump, Musk has weaponized tweets for the information war https://open.substack.com/pub/georgelakoff/p/algorithm-warfare-how-elon-musk-uses?r=1ewbq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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Big Oil has engaged in a long-running climate disinformation campaign while raking in record profits, lawmakers find
https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/09/politics/big-oil-disinformation-record-profits-climate/index.html
Kindness, sensitivity, compassion, honesty, and empathy can also be impressive political resources
In the 1830s, Lincoln was striving to be the DeWitt Clinton of Illinois, referencing a U.S. senator and New York
How False Beliefs Propel Cultural Conflict
https://newsletters.theatlantic.com/the-third-rail/639385a7b9e06100378c0e1e/democrat-republican-political-beliefs-culture/
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