Shane Claiborne Weapons into Tools By Christy Berghoef https://blog.reformedjournal.com/2021/09/06/weapons-into-tools/
The Atlantic Some Americans No Longer Believe in the Common Good By Silas House https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/08/some-americans-no-longer-believe-in-the-common-good/619856/
The Guardian Illinois city’s reparations plan was heralded – but locals say it’s a cautionary tale https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/aug/18/evanston-illinois-reparations-plan-cautionary-tale
Uncategorized ‘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/
Parker Palmer If we are to survive and thrive, we must hold its divisions and contradictions with compassion, lest we lose our democracy. I discovered a book that helped me understand how heartbreak and depression - two of the most isolating and disabling experiences I know - can expand one’s sense of connectedness…
Robert Putnam An increasingly cutthroat social and economic contest Some Americans have reacted to these many forms of dislocation by turning on their perceived adversaries in an increasingly cutthroat social and economic contest. Racism and gender discrimination persist and…
Vote Common Good Faith Groups Launch New Curriculum in Bid to Address Surge in Christian Nationalism https://www.newsweek.com/faith-groups-launch-new-curriculum-bid-address-surge-christian-nationalism-1606701
Robin DiAngelo Identity Politics The United States was founded on the principle that all people are created equal. Yet the nation began with the attempted genocide of Indigenous people and the theft of their…
Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons Jesus calls us This book focuses on the type of progressive Christian political engagement championed by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and many others in the public square and outside the walls…
Parker Palmer Creative tension-holding If we want to “create a politics worthy of the human spirit,” we must find ways to bridge our differences, whether they are defined by age, gender, class, race, ethnicity,…
