From “Reparations: A Christian Call for Repentance and Repair” by Duke L. Kwon and Gregory Thompson In 1994, Spencer Perkins and Chris Rice published a book that became something of a sensation in the American church. The book, More Than Equals: Racial Healing for the Sake for the Gospel, was an extended treatment of both […]
Racism as Relational Division Read More »
This is the first I’ve heard about the conference on the “Religious Origins of White Supremacy,” hosted by the Indigenous Values Initiative and Syracuse University, the website doctrineofdiscovery.org, and the Mapping the Doctrine of Discovery podcast. Read Robert’s article and link to the podcast here.
Robert P. Jones on the Mapping the Doctrine of Discovery Podcast Read More »
Racial and religious minorities depend upon the values of pluralism and the rule of law for our rights to be protected. Read the free article here
We can’t take democracy for granted Read More »
When so many foundational principles are under attack, we must retain our core character of generosity and compassion. By David Saperstein, Anwar Khan, Eugene Cho Read the free article here
As interfaith leaders, we are united to protect foreign assistance Read More »
From “Black and White: Disrupting Racism One Friendship At A Time” by Teesha Hadra and John Hambrick Fast-forward several years to my second job. I was (and am) on staff at Buckhead Church, the urban campus of North Point Ministries. Fairly early in my tenure here, two black men, who have since become my friends,
An Energy Department program designed to create jobs and manufacturing in communities reliant on fossil fuels is backing projects in West Virginia, Colorado and elsewhere. A free article from the New York Times
Former Coal Towns Get Money for Clean-Energy Factories Read More »
A dangerous guy… https://www.texastribune.org/2023/11/03/david-barton-mike-johnson-texas-church-state-christianity/
The mix of religion, power, money and influence around Nashville and its suburbs makes it fertile ground for a Southern evangelical take on Christian nationalism.
How a bucolic Tennessee suburb became a hotbed of ‘Christian Nashville-ism’ Read More »
“Hawaii constitutes an unusually crisp comparison between for-profit and nonprofit utilities: all the islands besides Kauai get power from investor-owned, for-profit Hawaiian Electric and its subsidiaries. Hawaiian Electric serves 95% of Hawaii’s population to KIUC’s 5%, but they operate in similar climates, across similar terrain and within the same state policy regime. Average retail electricity
Kauai became a clean energy leader. Its secret? A publicly owned grid Read More »
By Patricia Raybon Ibrahim Songne, at age 12, immigrated to Italy from West Africa, not knowing Italian, fighting a stutter, and facing anti-immigrant putdowns. Determined to overcome, he later opened a pizza shop, winning over naysayers with a pizza cafe that, in 2022, was listed among the Top 50 pizzerias in the world! https://odb.org/2023/11/06/persistent-pizza
Distinct from “voter fraud,” which is almost non-existent in the United States, election manipulation includes election procedures that make it harder to vote or that reduce the opposing party’s representation. These maneuvers have become more common and extreme in recent years—but only in some states. Vanessa Williamson outlines which states have experienced democratic erosion and
Democratic decline in the United States: Strategic manipulation of elections Read More »
