White Christian Nationalism in the United States: An Online Mini-Conference
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‘Homecoming’: 100 years after forceful removal, Nez Perce people celebrate reclaimed land
https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/2021/07/29/oregon-nez-perce-tribe-celebrate-reclaimed-reservation-land-history-treaty-chief-joseph-amsaaxpa/5424269001/
“Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”
“We must put drug abuse on the run through stronger law enforcement,” Reagan said in the Rose Garden. It wasn’t
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‘About time’: LGBTQ Olympic athletes unleash a rainbow wave
https://apnews.com/article/2020-tokyo-olympics-sports-lifestyle-nhl-ap-top-news-4c4d04b03dc0f3a070e287be092c50d4
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Indigenous Americans demand a reckoning with brutal colonial history
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/27/indigenous-americans-protesting-brutal-colonial-history
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Survivors of California’s forced sterilizations: ‘It’s like my life wasn’t worth anything’
A new reparations program will compensate survivors of prison system sterilizations and the 20th century eugenics campaign https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/19/california-forced-sterilization-prison-survivors-reparations
United Church of Christ declares racism a public health crisis
from Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2021/07/14/ucc-united-church-of-christ-declares-racism-a-public-health-crisis/
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“A Bridge Between US” is a series of online conversations for societal healing
sponsored by the IFS Foundation https://mailchi.mp/8b2cfc82ac29/a-bridge-between-us-online-conversations-for-societal-healing?e=bfb4476e64
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How America Fractured Into Four Parts
by George Packer in The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/07/george-packer-four-americas/619012/
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Gay couple wins case against florist after Supreme Court rejects appeal
LGBTQ advocates hailed the Court’s affirmation of anti-discrimination law https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/gay-couple-wins-case-florist-supreme-court-rejects/story?id=78631214
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Opinion | I’ve Been a Critical Race Theorist for 30 Years. Our Opponents Are Just Proving Our Point For Us.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/06/30/critical-race-theory-lightning-rod-opinion-497046
To Unite a Divided America, Make People Work for It
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/02/opinion/compulsory-national-service-america.html
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How Brandan Robertson, a.k.a. the ‘Tik-Tok Preacher,’ Is Taking on the Anti-LGBTQ Teachings of His Faith
Congratulations Brandan! https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/tiktok-preacher-brandan-robertson-lgbtq-faith-1185814/
Latest First Nations discovery reveals 182 unmarked graves at Canada school
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/30/canada-first-nations-unmarked-graves-indigenous-residential-school-british-columbia
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UN human rights chief calls for reparations over racism
from the BBC https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57646933
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Caught in a culture war, this multiracial family navigates a predominantly White evangelical world
by Sarah Pulliam Bailey https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2021/06/01/evangelical-christian-race-southern-baptist/
Reconciling our Differences by Modeling the Incarnation
from The Reformed Journal https://reformedjournal.com/reconciling-our-differences-by-modeling-the-incarnation/
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Is it just your journey, or is it our journey too?
The church I served for twenty-four years in the Washington, DC, area was full of people like you. Many were
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A short history of the long conservative assault on Black voting power
https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/08/politics/black-voter-suppression/index.html
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The Chauvin verdict is an island of justice in a river of Black pain
We need to begin to heal from all the horrors of our histories and heritages. from Religion News Service
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