Robert P. Jones It’s the most ‘angry’ time of the year? By Robert P. Jones – A new survey highlights just how angry vaccinated and unvaccinated Americans are with each other today. https://religionnews.com/2021/12/11/its-the-most-angry-time-of-the-year/
Heather McGhee Demographic change 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…
Uncategorized Is Anyone Taking Care of the Wounded Healers? By Jennie McLaurin Humanitarian workers are crucial to our collective survival... but they are not okay. https://www.christianitytoday.com/better-samaritan/2021/october/is-anyone-taking-care-of-wounded-healers.html
Uncategorized After COP26: What should Christians do next? Climate change is not simply a technical, policy or engineering issue. It is above all a moral and spiritual issue in which the meaning and value of all life is…
John Pavlovitz Theology is unmasked in crisis It’s tempting to get ahead of ourselves when adversity visits. If we’re being honest, on our very best days a terrifying sense of scarcity is always hovering in the periphery…
Frederick Buechner Churches die, but God does not die The gospel story can be read as the story of a man to whom, in his fragility, almost every bad thing happens that can happen, a man not unlike the…
Uncategorized How your church can be brave by Elizabeth Hagan https://faithandleadership.com/how-your-church-can-be-brave
Daniel Bowman Jr. Neurotypical Syndrome Just for fun: here’s a parody, pointing out the absurdities of centering one group’s perceived strengths while pathologizing the typical traits of another. Written by Erik Engdahl, the piece incidentally…
Heather McGhee Today our schools are nearly as segregated as they were before Brown v. Board of Education In my gut, I’ve always known that laws are merely expressions of a society’s dominant beliefs. It’s the beliefs that must shift in order for outcomes to change. When policies…
Uncategorized Five tech innovations used as weapons against people of faith from Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2021/11/12/five-tech-innovations-used-as-weapons-against-people-of-faith/
John Pavlovitz Looking for a bigger God Whenever people say, “I’m spiritual but not religious” this is usually another way of saying, “I’ve outgrown my God box and am currently looking for a bigger one.” They’re telling…
Barbara Brown Taylor Once you have given up knowing who is right, it is easy to see neighbors everywhere you look. Lately I have begun to notice how my holy envy of friends in other traditions moves around the circle back to me. An observant Jewish friend tells me that he…
Uncategorized US Muslims gave more to charity than other Americans in 2020 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
Brian McLaren What makes religious doubt so challenging What makes religious doubt so challenging is that in almost every religious community, the box of normative beliefs contains beliefs of each kind - personal, historical, aesthetic, scientific, moral, and…
Susan K. Smith The “thingification” of Black people The Puritans relied upon the Calvinist theology to which they adhered, as well as the Bible, to justify their belief that God had created some human beings inferior to them.…
John Pavlovitz I’m Not Saying Conservative Christianity is Anti-Jesus. Jesus is. by John Pavlovitz https://johnpavlovitz.com/2021/11/05/im-not-saying-conservative-christianity-is-anti-jesus-jesus-is/
Catherine Meeks “Reconciliation” is “a place of meeting” One of the oldest meanings of the word, “reconciliation” is “a place of meeting.” This stresses that overcoming alienation requires coming together. If we are to deepen understanding so that…
Ibram X. Kendi The common idea of claiming “color blindness” The common idea of claiming “color blindness” is akin to the notion of being “ not racist” - as with the “not racist,” the color-blind individual, by ostensibly failing to…
Religion News Service How God’s pronouns and the CBMW might save Beth Allison Barr’s church A slew of donations to the church was inspired by an unlikely source — a fundraising appeal from the Council for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, which criticized both Barr's book…
Robert P. Jones Study: Most white evangelicals don’t want to live in a religiously diverse country 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/
Uncategorized Contributions of this book Though we intend for this book to be introductory, we also hope that it will make substantive contributions to larger conversations regarding reparations both inside and outside of communities of…
