If there’s one question I want to persuade you to ask more often, its “What am I missing?” “What am I missing?” is not just any question. It’s the question. It’s the doorstop to put down in the hallways of your mind, pathway after pathway to keep open possibilities from slamming into harmful assumptions. Answering […]
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A Reflection by Brandan Robertson on the Supreme Court case on Religious Liberty and LGBTQ+ Discrimination https://open.substack.com/pub/nomadnotes/p/its-time-to-really-love-our-neighbors?r=43xc6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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Offered by the North Carolina Institute for Spiritual Direction and Formation When? Monday, February 13-Saturday Feb 18, 2023 Who? This pilgrimage is for anyone who would like to learn more about the people and places of significance that we’ve heard about from the Civil Rights movement. Why? It is important to remember events that have
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To be a “person” in the United States and Canada is to be a particular kind of person: somebody who is white and Christian, owns property, holds European values. We may think that this is no longer true today. But 98 percent of private property, 856 million acres of it, in the United States is
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/25/how-many-americans-carry-guns-daily
Six million Americans carried guns daily in 2019, twice as many as in 2015 Read More »
A big aspect of the healing is going to be a sincere, heartfelt apology by the different denominations that participated,’ said one survivor. https://religionnews.com/2022/11/23/what-does-healing-look-like-to-survivors-of-the-u-s-indian-boarding-school-system/
What does healing look like to survivors of the US Indian boarding school system? Read More »
by Shea Darian https://doinggrief.com/the-grief-in-our-gratitude/
The Grief in Our Gratitude: National Day of Mourning Read More »
‘The government protects historical churches and other important religious landmarks, and our site deserves no less protection,’ Apache Stronghold founder Wendsler Nosie Sr. said. https://religionnews.com/2022/11/17/apaches-get-rehearing-in-fight-to-preserve-oak-flat-a-sacred-site-in-arizona/
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by Paul Brandeis Raushenbush https://religionnews.com/2022/11/16/the-respect-for-marriage-act-protects-my-family-and-my-faith/
The Respect for Marriage Act protects my family — and my faith Read More »
When I (John) was a little boy, the only black people I saw were on TV playing baseball. Bob Gibson. Maury Wills. Hank Aaron. WIllie Mays. Willie McCovey. Jim Gilliam. Ernie Banks. John Roseboro. FIfty years later, their names flow effortlessly onto the page. The fact that they were black was of no more interest
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by Amy Julia Becker – NavPress Purchase from: A Gentle Invitation into the Challenging Topic of PrivilegeGently addressing the challenging topics of privilege and race, power and inequality, White Picket Fences is a memoir of Amy Julia Becker’s growing awareness of the unequal benefits (and secret harm) she received by virtue of her white skin,
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Voters in Alabama, Oregon, Tennessee, and Vermont all approved measures to close this loophole. While none will immediately stop forced labor at prisons, the measures open the door for legal challenges to how the states use prison labor. Louisiana voted down an attempt to make changes to its constitutional language on slavery after the ballot
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https://news.yahoo.com/word-homosexual-bible-mistake-explosive-082916707.html
Black church leaders and activists in Georgia rallied Sunday in a longstanding tradition known as “Souls to the Polls” that has greater meaning in this year’s midterms as legislation presents new obstacles to casting a ballot. https://religionnews.com/2022/10/31/black-church-tradition-survives-georgias-voting-changes/
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/10/26/right-wing-radio-station/
At small-town radio station, the right-wing misinformation effort goes local Read More »
Bad news… https://newrepublic.com/article/168180/growing-religious-alliance-ban-lgbtq-books
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Religion and spirituality could help remedy the youth mental health crisis, Springtide Research finds. https://religionnews.com/2022/10/19/study-religion-and-spirituality-can-aid-youth-mental-health-crisis/
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It’s time for the United States to fulfill its promise to the Cherokee Nation. The 1835 Treaty of New Echota between the United States and the Cherokee people led to the expulsion of Cherokees from their territory in a mass exodus known as the Trail of Tears, where 15,000 Indigenous people died including 4,000 Cherokee. The treaty also guaranteed the
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