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by John Pavlovitz https://mailchi.mp/johnpavlovitz/damn-giver-dispatch-july10th-2566124?e=43c7408bf4

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/03/1185758479/new-zealand-single-use-plastic-produce-bag-ban-grocery-stores

https://bookshop.org/p/books/demystifying-disability-what-to-know-what-to-say-and-how-to-be-an-ally-emily-ladau/15364182

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jul/06/churchspace-church-entrepreneur-event-space-rental-houston-dallas?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

By  Kelly Brown Douglas, Bryan N. Massingale

From “20 Myths about Religion and Politics in America” by Ryan P. Burge Altering our understanding of the world based on new information is not a sign of weakness but great intellectual strength. Can you imagine if we all had the same viewpoints that we held when we were eighteen? One of the most powerful

From “On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century” by Timothy Snyder On February 2, 1933, for  example, a leading newspaper for German Jews published an editorial expressing this mislaid trust: We do not subscribe to the view that Mr. Hitler and his friends, now finally in possession of the power they have so long

“Remember: Facts and science do not change the minds of those who reject facts and science.” “One of the things cognitive science teaches us is that when people define their very identity by a worldview, or a narrative, or a mode of thought, they are unlikely to change-for the simple reason that it is physically

from Brian McLaren and Richard Rohr https://email.cac.org/t/d-e-voyhld-iufowjr-g/

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/libraries/article/92618-freedom-fighters-ibram-x-kendi-kicks-off-ala-2023-with-a-powerful-message-to-librarians.html

Because tax revenues have plummeted. Tax cuts under the George W. Bush and Trump administrations are responsible for 57% of the increase in the ratio of the debt to the economy, 90% if you exclude the emergency expenditures of the pandemic. The United States is nowhere close to the average tax burden of the 38

By David Anderson https://religionnews.com/2023/06/16/juneteenth-isnt-about-the-past-its-about-our-future/

A free article from the New York Times, helping us understand the fundamentalist environment in which some of our population was raised.

https://apnews.com/article/f6e087e41e790404b3431febc461eafa

Responding to backlash in a Facebook Live, Brooks said, “Everybody’s got their opinions. But inclusiveness is always going to be me.”

‘The case for restitution and restoration is laid out across the Old Testament and New Testament,’ reads the introduction of the National Council of Churches’ study. https://religionnews.com/2023/06/12/reparations-campaign-takes-new-forms-with-bible-study-juneteenth-march/

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-industry-news/article/92523-in-the-field-school-librarians-share-their-battles-with-book-banning.html

In celebration of Pride Month, the White House has announced a set of actions designed to protect LGBTQIA+ communities, including the appointment of a new coordinator within the Department of Education to spearhead a response to the rising number of book bans at the state level. https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/libraries/article/92506-white-house-announces-new-position-to-combat-lgbtq-book-bans.html

From “US: The Resurrection of American Terror” by Rev. Kenneth W. Wheeler Four hundred years of a nation’s life and history shaped by the enigma of slavery, the nightmare of Jim Crow segregation, and the continued nightmare of racial discrimination cannot be seriously dealt with by setting aside one Sunday a year. One Sunday a