Sojourners The Illogical Love of Jesus by Stephen Mattson in Sojourners What is the “Christian” way? When faced with political, social, and economic choices within our society, how should Christians respond? Jesus himself is asked to summarize…
Religion News Service The age of nones may favor churches that welcome doubters by Ryan Burge via Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2020/01/14/the-age-of-nones-may-favor-churches-who-welcome-doubters/
Parenting Empathy Is Tough to Teach, But Is One Of the Most Important Life Lessons https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/47502/empathy-is-tough-to-teach-but-is-one-of-the-most-important-life-lessons
New York Times Trump’s Plot Against Health Care Continues by Paul Krugman at the New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/13/opinion/obamacare-medicare-for-all.html
Brandan Robertson Deconstructing the tolerance paradox: why Conservatives’ go-to line is garbage. https://medium.com/@parkermolloy/deconstructing-the-tolerance-paradox-why-conservatives-go-to-line-is-garbage-666a1bf04a65
Richard Rohr Dancing Polarities by Richard Rohr The words action and contemplation aptly describe the two dancing polarities of our lives. In classic Christian philosophy, Thomas Aquinas and many others stated that the highest form of spiritual maturity…
Uncategorized Daily multidimensional racial discrimination among Black U.S. American adolescents from the Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology Highlights Racial discrimination occurs individually, vicariously, online, offline, and in teasing.Black adolescents average over five racial discrimination experiences per day.Online experiences are more…
Brandan Robertson Tolerance Is Not A Progressive Value by Brandan Robertson via Patheos https://www.patheos.com/blogs/revangelical/2020/01/08/tolerance-is-not-a-progressive-value.html
Religion News Service White evangelicals’ attacks on James Cone are about power, not truth By Andre Henry via Religion News Service A specter has been haunting white evangelicalism. It comes in the shape of James Cone, one of the founders of black liberation theology.…
William Barber Evangelicals using religion for political gain is nothing new. It is a US tradition by William Barber in The Guardian No one who has read US history can be surprised by the hypocrisy of Evangelicals for Trump but it also tells us how their…
Uncategorized Poverty Grew In One-Third Of U.S. Counties Despite Strong National Economy Most of the biggest increases were in areas both rural and Southern. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/poverty-rate-us-counties_n_5dfbc63ee4b0eb2264d672f1
Uncategorized Kindness Doesn’t Just Make You Healthier, It Can Actually Slow Aging, New Research Shows from Inc.com A new study shows loving-kindness meditation may actually help postpone the inevitable. https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/kindness-doesnt-just-make-you-healthier-it-can-actually-slow-aging-new-research-shows.html
Uncategorized Erich Fromm’s 6 Rules of Listening: The Great Humanistic Philosopher and Psychologist on the Art of Unselfish Understanding from BrainPickings https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/04/05/erich-fromm-the-art-of-listening/
Uncategorized 10 Journalism Brands Where You Find Real Facts Rather Than Alternative Facts by Paul Glader in Forbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/berlinschoolofcreativeleadership/2017/02/01/10-journalism-brands-where-you-will-find-real-facts-rather-than-alternative-facts/#9cc79dde9b5a
Religion News Service Trump is no religious freedom champion from Melissa Rogers via Religion New Service "Evangelicals usually say they oppose governmental discrimination against particular faiths and support the use of uniform standards to evaluate free exercise claims. These…
Brian McLaren 3 New Year’s Resolutions for Pastors in 2020 by Brian McLaren https://brianmclaren.net/3-new-years-resolutions-for-pastors-in-2020/
Uncategorized From Slavery to Mass Incarceration https://www.benjerry.com/whats-new/2019/08/slavery-to-mass-incarceration
Jacqui Lewis Rev. Jacqui Lewis and Peter Wehner discuss Christianity and Trump https://www.msnbc.com/craig-melvin/watch/president-trump-looking-to-cement-and-expand-evangelical-support-76017733559
Religion News Service 50 years after ‘Black Manifesto,’ religious groups take up reparations again The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. described 11 o’clock on Sunday morning as the “most segregated hour in America." This story is one in a series by Religion News Service…
