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by Claire Giangravé https://religionnews.com/2022/09/26/in-hometown-of-st-francis-of-assisi-pope-puts-forward-radical-criticism-of-capitalism/

Virtue signaling is designed to communicate specifically to one partisan tribe and to affirm its moral superiority. A scholar of ethics and politics explains why that is unwelcome in a…

by Adele M. Banks https://religionnews.com/2022/09/16/biden-includes-faith-leaders-in-summits-charge-to-rise-together-against-hate/ “There’s a throughline of hate, from massacres of Indigenous people to the original sin of slavery, terror of the (Ku Klux) Klan, anti-immigration violence against…

Rather than fixating on the way our adolescents dress and talk - not to mention their paradoxical willingness to use a phone for anything but its original purpose - in…

from Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2022/09/06/in-learning-our-names-asian-american-christian-authors-reclaim-their-stories/ And you can enjoy our interview with two authors of the book here:

Altruistic behaviour takes place in a different part of the brain to similar activity to help oneself, new research has found. https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2022/scientists-pinpoint-brain-region-responsible-for-effortful-helping-behaviour

from Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2022/08/09/new-book-invites-christians-to-rethink-homelessness/ You can also see our interview of the book's author Kevin Nye (“Grace Can Lead Us Home: A Christian Call to End Homelessness”) here:

British researchers and a team from Google found that teaching people how to spot misinformation made people more skeptical of it. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/24/technology/google-search-misinformation.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Our country’s commitment to bottomless self-interest, manic work schedule, and a structural belief in competition and scarcity as moral imperatives is actually killing us. “Most of us were not taught…

American business can be a force for finding common ground, but large corporations must now answer to a growing array of stakeholders, who often have opposing views on hot-button issues.…

After I graduated from college, I remained at the University of Florida for law school. When I finished law school, I began a career as a young attorney trying to…

https://pen.org/press-release/ban-on-52-books-in-largest-utah-school-district-is-a-worrisome-escalation-of-censorship/

https://religionnews.com/2022/08/03/americas-original-sin-must-be-addressed-not-ignored/

https://religionnews.com/2022/08/11/reckoning-with-role-in-boarding-schools-elca-makes-declaration-to-indigenous-peoples/

https://religionnews.com/2022/07/29/having-autism-makes-finding-a-spiritual-community-difficult-here-are-some-ways-to-help/

https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/3539703-no-miracle-tech-needed-how-to-switch-to-renewables-now-and-lower-costs-doing-it/

by Adam Grant https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/jul/30/you-cant-say-that-how-to-argue-better

What’s in a Question?  A vital ingredient to help is times of loss, pain and upheaval.       I admit my instinctual preference, I want answers and want to be in charge. …

Carrie Newcomer & Parker J. Palmer talk about the challenges of staying in dialogue during divisive times, how to claim agency and the courage to stay engaged. Many of us were raised…

By Eboo Patel, Robert P. Jones https://religionnews.com/2022/07/20/what-history-of-judeo-christian-teaches-about-defeating-white-christian-nationalism/