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Marian Chia-Ming Liu https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/interactive/2022/assimilation-chinese-names-asian-racism/

 by Susan K. Williams Smith The celebration of the birthday of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King has come and gone, and what is troubling is that so many who…

An interview from The Telos Channel - listen to it here What does it take to imagine a future better than the one you’ve inherited? Angie Thomas grew up in…

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/robert-e-lee-statue-charlottesville-virginia-melted-down-artwork/

Climate change is not simply a technical, policy or engineering issue. It is above all a moral and spiritual issue in which the meaning and value of all life is…

Healing a Divided Country — A Conversation with Dan Vallone, the US Director for More in Common, a nonprofit foundation whose mission is to build a more united and inclusive America…

By Robert P. Jones - A new survey highlights just how angry vaccinated and unvaccinated Americans are with each other today. https://religionnews.com/2021/12/11/its-the-most-angry-time-of-the-year/

As powerful as these social obstacles are, they are not the heart of the struggle to see. The most powerful obstacles to sight lie instead within ourselves. Indeed, it is…

In this episode, Kirsten Powers joins Pete and Jared to discuss toxic public discourse, non-dualistic thinking, and a look at how grace might hold a different meaning than we previously…

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

Long marginalized and misrepresented in U.S. history, the Wampanoags are bracing for the 400th anniversary of the first Pilgrim Thanksgiving in 1621 https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/11/04/thanksgiving-anniversary-wampanoag-indians-pilgrims/

from The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/montana-extreme-trump/2021/10/22/0f82afbc-0037-11ec-a664-4f6de3e17ff0_story.html

Dayton, Ohio August 7, 1865 To My Old Master, Colonel P. H. Anderson, Big Spring, Tennessee Sir: I got your letter, and was glad that you had not forgotten Jourdon,…

It is hard for me to believe I finished high school in the year 2000 touting so many racist ideas. A racist culture had handed me the ammunition to shoot…

As wildfires consume the American west, economic uncertainty plagues those tasked with containing them https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/21/wildland-firefighters-struggle-homelessness

https://religionnews.com/2021/10/19/a-century-after-partition-irelands-churches-are-cooperating-more-closely-than-ever/

By Auburn Senior Fellows https://religionnews.com/2021/10/20/voting-is-a-covenant-well-use-our-pulpits-to-demand-it-be-supported/

The Christian faith is based upon being committed to God’s dream for us personally and communally. Our living creatively into the future involves our devotion to the compelling vision of…

I survived my childhood. I got through elementary school even though I did no homework, never studied for quizzes or tests, and almost never spoke with a teacher. These things…

from Sojourners https://sojo.net/politically-divided-congregations-curriculum