Dueling consciousness
White people have their own dueling consciousness, between the segregationist and the assimilationist: the slave trader and the missionary, the […]
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Faithful Creation Care
Check out this Q&A from the 2021 Wild Goose Festival: Faithful Creation Care with Brian McLaren, Miriam Smith, Scott Hardin-Nieri, Susannah Tuttle
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The Personal Struggle
As powerful as these social obstacles are, they are not the heart of the struggle to see. The most powerful
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Why do I tell this story?
Why do I tell this story in light of the abuse and murder of autistic children? And why do I
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Kirsten Powers interview on The Bible for Normal People Podcast
In this episode, Kirsten Powers joins Pete and Jared to discuss toxic public discourse, non-dualistic thinking, and a look at
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The zero sum is a story by wealthy interests for their own profit
In decade after decade, threats of job competition – between men and women, immigrants and native born. Black and white
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Holy Chaos
I begin by laying the groundwork for our shared labor with definitions, as defined by Merriam-Webster and me. holy exalted
Is Anyone Taking Care of the Wounded Healers?
By Jennie McLaurin Humanitarian workers are crucial to our collective survival… but they are not okay. https://www.christianitytoday.com/better-samaritan/2021/october/is-anyone-taking-care-of-wounded-healers.html
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Ridding yourself of your negative emotions
Researchers say that negative emotions—fear, envy, greed, entitlement, resentment, anger, and regret—block gratitude, causing “self-alienation,” broken relationships, and profound unhappiness,
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We successfully weathered that storm once, and we can do it again
Perhaps the single most important lesson we can hope to gain from this analysis is that in the past America
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Openness and connectivity may, in the end, be more valuable
The pattern of “competition” is an excellent case in point. Every economics textbook will tell you that competition between rival
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For herd animals like us
Now when it comes to intellectual doubt, you’re dealing primarily with your meaning module, the part of your brain committee
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US Muslims gave more to charity than other Americans in 2020
Muslim Americans gave more to charity in 2020 than non-Muslims, a new study found. They are also more likely to
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We have the moral responsibility to open our eyes and see our society more truthfully
If we want to understand racism in the U.S., as uncomfortable as it might be for us, we have the
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Convictions
Our response is framed by seven core convictions that we believe are foundational to a constructive engagement with the work
Study: Most white evangelicals don’t want to live in a religiously diverse country
The new American Values Survey from PRRI also shows that 60% of white evangelicals believe the 2020 presidential election was
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This tribe helped the Pilgrims survive for their first Thanksgiving. They still regret it 400 years later.
Long marginalized and misrepresented in U.S. history, the Wampanoags are bracing for the 400th anniversary of the first Pilgrim Thanksgiving
The Pathology Model vs. the Neurodiversity Paradigm
If you aren’t sure that a pathology paradigm is so bad, I want to simply place the language of pathology
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Racial hierarchy
Most Euro-Americans were not, and would likely never be, the wealthy aristocrat who had every social and economic privilege in
Montanans used to live and let live. Today bitter confrontations dim Big Sky Country.
from The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/montana-extreme-trump/2021/10/22/0f82afbc-0037-11ec-a664-4f6de3e17ff0_story.html
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A letter from Jourdon
Dayton, Ohio August 7, 1865 To My Old Master, Colonel P. H. Anderson, Big Spring, Tennessee Sir: I got your
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