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Temperatures in the Barents Sea region are ‘off the scale’ and may affect extreme weather in the US and Europe https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/15/new-data-reveals-extraordinary-global-heating-in-the-arctic

In this video interview, Jack Jenkins of Religion News Service talks about his article How Christian Nationalism Paved the Way for Jan. 6 with Doug Pagitt.

Researchers have now calculated how many people could be saved from heat-related death if the US takes meaningful action https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/16/us-climate-crisis-millions-lives-saved

We recently hosted a small round table conversation in Atlanta, Georgia. The topic was race and racism. We invited ten black people and five white people. We started things off by asking everybody to talk about how racism has affected their lives. Every black person in the room had a story to tell. Some talked

Our first claim is that White supremacy stole the truth about the identity of African Americans. In saying this, we are not speaking of identity in the theological sense. In much of the Christian tradition, and certainly in the Scriptures, human identity is grounded in the reality that God loves human beings and crowned them

Many thanks to Calvary Presbyterian Church, San Francisco for hosting this Q&A about How to Heal Our Divides. I tell the story of how HTHOD came about and respond to some great questions on a variety of topics.

This means they will use the common good as a guiding principle in how they govern, what policies they advocate, and the ways in which they interact with both voters and other candidates for office. Candidates for Common Good have taken the Vote Common Good Love In Politics Pledge. Multiple candidates in a race can

Let us say our priest asks for an additional Lunch Box volunteer one week. Many people can say, “Sure, I’ll do it.” I’m autistic. I will be thinking: How does it work? What is my specific role? Will our roles be clear? Who is in charge? What expectations will they have that they will never

Congress held a second hearing on book bans and censorship in the classroom, and considered, among other testimonies, a letter signed by more than 1,300 children’s authors condemning banning efforts. https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-industry-news/article/89373-kid-lit-authors-petition-congress-to-condemn-book-banning.html

The logical extension of the zero-sum story is that a future without racism is something white people should fear, because there will be nothing good for them in it. They should be arming themselves (as they have been in record numbers, “for protection,” since the Obama presidency) because demographic change will end in a dog-eat-dog

In Holocaust literature, participation in the atrocities are described by types: perpetrators, victims, and bystanders. David Gushee’s assessment of the bystander is instructive, as it mirrors the moral posture of the white moderate in King’s letter: “If one is present, one is taking part. The moral issue then simply becomes a matter of moral perception

by Robert P. Jones https://religionnews.com/2022/05/16/the-beloved-community-and-the-heresy-of-white-replacement/

Doug Pagitt sits down with Amanda Hambrick Ashcraft, pastor at Middle Church in NYC and Founder of Raising Imagination to discuss how we talk about Roe v. Wade and abortion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuWhUaQ2E0M

People who call Jesus their Lord and Savior can no longer afford to merely engage in idle, albeit distressed, conversation about racism. At best, the watching world reads our inaction as proof of our irrelevance. At worst, we give the world another reason to reject the gospel. The church cannot let that stand. It’s not

A Jim Wallis conversation Michigan Sen. Mallory McMorrow about faith, service and how she lit a fire under suburban moms https://jimwallis.substack.com/p/mothers-you-dont-want-to-mess-with?r=1ewbq&s=r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

by Jemar Tisby As the Supreme Court seems poised to overturn Roe v. Wade we look at the Religious Right and the role race played before opposition to abortion https://jemartisby.substack.com/p/abortion-racism-and-the-true-origins?r=1ewbq&s=r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

Attitudes on abortion are strongly correlated with a worldview that denies systemic racism and pines for a 1950s America. https://robertpjones.substack.com/p/alito-and-public-opinion-reveal-the?r=1ewbq&s=r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

By 2007, a record 47 million Americans were uninsured – either because they or their employers could no longer afford coverage, because they were not poor enough or old enough to qualify for Medicaid or Medicare, or because they had a preexisting condition. This led to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 which, as