Midterms Got You Down? 5 Ways People of Faith Can Take Action
by Adam Russell Taylor of Sojourners https://sojo.net/articles/midterms-got-you-down-5-ways-people-faith-can-take-action
by Adam Russell Taylor of Sojourners https://sojo.net/articles/midterms-got-you-down-5-ways-people-faith-can-take-action
From high-level lawmakers to to local poll workers, people who would not live by Trump’s lies have been violently targeted. – by Jim Wallis https://jimwallis.substack.com/p/when-political-lies-lead-to-political
To be sure, most white denominations, and most white Christians, have today taken pains to distance themselves from slavery, the Jim Crow laws that enforced racial segregation, and overtly racist attitudes openly espoused in the past. But in survey after survey, white Christians stand out in their negative attitudes about racial, ethnic, and religious minorities …
Even within Christianity itself, there are hundreds, if not thousands, of denominations all claiming to know the true message of Jesus the Christ. Now, as in ancient and pre-biblical days, we have a polytheistic system in which gods are competing with each other. In addition to that, as much as we might want to claim …
One such example of choosing who I would dialogue with came from joining a student group devoted to racial reconciliation at Duke Divinity School. That group helped me consider this tension – between my privileges and my interaction with the world – within a trusted community. Each week we gathered to hear one another’s stories. …
So what is the stubborn belief that needs to shift now for us to make progress against inequality? I found my first clues in a series of psychology studies. Psychologists Maureen Craig and Jennifer Richeson presented white Americans with news articles about people of color becoming the majority of the population by 2042. The study …
by Robert P. Jones https://robertpjones.substack.com/p/the-sacred-work-of-white-discomfort
by Adam Taylor of Sojourners https://sojo.net/articles/how-will-we-teach-our-kids-about-jan-6
A very important article from The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/12/trust-recession-economy/620522/
Perhaps the single most important lesson we can hope to gain from this analysis is that in the past America has experienced a storm of unbridled individualism in our culture, our communities, our politics, and our economics, and it produced then, as it has today, a national situation that few Americans found appealing. But we …
We successfully weathered that storm once, and we can do it again Read More »
Muslim Americans gave more to charity in 2020 than non-Muslims, a new study found. They are also more likely to volunteer, we learned. https://theconversation.com/us-muslims-gave-more-to-charity-than-other-americans-in-2020-170689
The new American Values Survey from PRRI also shows that 60% of white evangelicals believe the 2020 presidential election was stolen. No other religious group comes close. https://religionnews.com/2021/11/01/study-most-white-evangelicals-dont-want-to-live-in-a-religiously-diverse-country/
By Christy Berghoef https://blog.reformedjournal.com/2021/09/06/weapons-into-tools/
By Silas House https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/08/some-americans-no-longer-believe-in-the-common-good/619856/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/aug/18/evanston-illinois-reparations-plan-cautionary-tale
https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/2021/07/29/oregon-nez-perce-tribe-celebrate-reclaimed-reservation-land-history-treaty-chief-joseph-amsaaxpa/5424269001/
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 and evoke the heart’s capacity to employ tension in the service of life. Lincoln’s Melancholy, by Joshua Shenk, is a probling examination of our sixteenth …
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 are even intensified. Indeed, the progress toward racial equality achieved in an earlier era has in many ways reversed. White supremacist violence is on the …
An increasingly cutthroat social and economic contest Read More »
https://www.newsweek.com/faith-groups-launch-new-curriculum-bid-address-surge-christian-nationalism-1606701
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 land. American wealth was built on the labor of kidnapped and enslaved Africans and their descendents. Women were denied the right to vote until 1920, …
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 of the church. Entering the story of progressive Christianity in the United States in the midst of a theological battle might seem like an odd …