Black, Evangelical and Torn
free article from the New York Times With America’s white conservatives increasingly drawn to Christian nationalism, many Black believers feel […]
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Our New Promethean Moment
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Five charts that explain the desperate turn to MAGA among conservative white Christians
by Robert P. Jones https://religionnews.com/2023/03/14/five-charts-that-explain-the-desperate-turn-to-maga-among-conservative-white-christians/
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How can a poor man stand such times and live?
by Angela Denker https://open.substack.com/pub/angeladenker/p/how-can-a-poor-man-stand-such-times?r=1ewbq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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Author and priest Randall Balmer: ‘Sport has eclipsed religion as the US pastime’
In his new book, the scholar examines how religion shaped the history of major sports in North America https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/mar/13/author-and-priest-randall-balmer-sport-has-eclipsed-religion-as-the-us-pastime
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Young people flourish where faith leaders see color
If you ask young people to leave race at home, you might as well tell them to stay home, too.
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The battle to boost our deep sleep – and help stop dementia
The biological ‘brainwashing’ that happens while you are sleeping is crucial for filtering out toxins. Here’s how to optimise your
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San Francisco’s Black residents could get a $5 million reparations payout
The city’s board of supervisors showed support for a plan to compensate eligible residents for slavery and systemic racism. https://qz.com/reparations-san-francisco-slavery-racism-1850227344
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French church abuse victims get reparations, and recognition
France’s Catholic bishops’ conference agreed to provide reparations after a 2021 report estimated some 330,000 children were sexually abused over
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Meet the organization preserving and promoting the stories of Black Methodists
After funding from the United Methodist Church General Conference ended and in-person events were put on hold during the COVID-19
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Faith leaders urge Biden to sign executive order for reparations study by Juneteenth
They urged Biden to base an order on the structure of H.R. 40, legislation proposed for decades that has yet
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Poll: Support for abortion rights is strong, even among most religious groups
The outliers are white evangelicals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Latter-day Saints and Hispanic Protestants. https://religionnews.com/2023/02/23/poll-support-for-abortion-rights-is-strong-even-among-most-religious-groups/
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Making Peace with America’s History By Honoring Both Indigenous and European Traditions
You may or may not agree with all of the points made in this article. (Personally I find there are
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10 Books To Help Us Resist
by Kaitlin Curtice https://open.substack.com/pub/kaitlincurtice/p/10-books-to-help-us-resist?r=1ewbq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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As Book Bans and Legislative Attacks Escalate, the New Press Pushes Back
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We whose ancestors owned slaves want to make amends – but nations must also pay their due
“My family owned plantations, made profits and was compensated, but the personal atonement of my generation can only ever be
Poll: A third of Americans are Christian nationalists and most are white evangelicals
A new PRRI survey finds that 10% of Americans are avowed Christian nationalists and an additional 19% are sympathetic to
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The Most Important Job Skill of This Century
“Like writing and coding before it, prompt engineering is an emergent form of thinking.” https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/02/openai-text-models-google-search-engine-bard-chatbot-chatgpt-prompt-writing/672991/
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Why the ‘He Gets Us’ Super Bowl ads make Jews nervous
Whatever happened to #Pluralism? https://religionnews.com/2023/02/07/why-the-he-gets-us-super-bowl-ads-make-jews-nervous/
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