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With Warnock’s win, Democrats eye faith as a pathway to victory in the South

Once a faith-based activist arrested for protesting in the US Capitol, Warnock stands to elevate the various causes of the religious left — especially voting rights. https://religionnews.com/2022/12/09/with-warnocks-win-democrats-eye-faith-as-a-pathway-to-victory-in-the-south/

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Shopping for a new church? Your politics may determine which pew fits

A new study examines the role that politics plays in how Americans choose a new church. https://religionnews.com/2022/12/12/shopping-for-a-new-church-your-politics-may-determine-which-pew-fits/

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A matter of choice

Overall, our study revealed that spiritual experiences are visible in the brain in three significant ways: an involuntary reorientation of attention a sense of love or embrace consistent with intimate…

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Slowdown in the Rise of Religious Nones

https://news.gallup.com/opinion/polling-matters/406544/slowdown-rise-religious-nones.aspx

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White noise protects us from the class-based racial nightmare in the United States

We mistakenly identify racism as only brazen discrimination and physical violence. To protect ourselves, it is convenient to treat White supremacy as an anomaly unrelated to the specific social perils…

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Because they deeply misunderstand Jesus and the gospel

Why weren’t we lamenting and whispering the names of the victims together with shaky breaths and broken hearts? Why weren’t more preachers decrying the societal problems that led to these…

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Trinity

The much maligned doctrine of the Trinity is an assertion that, appearances to the contrary notwithstanding, there is only one God. Father, Son, and Holy Spirit mean that the mystery…

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How Congress can bring good news to the poor this Advent

by Jim Wallis https://religionnews.com/2022/11/30/how-congress-could-bring-good-news-to-the-poor-this-advent/

Lisa Sharon Harper

The impact of colonization on the conquered is fragmentation

In every corner of the world, a primary weapon of Western domination has been to cut off indigenous and other subjugated peoples from their lands, from their families and communities,…

Brandan Robertson

What could be more Christlike than that?

Those of us who call ourselves Christians have an obligation to heed the call of the gospel to work with God to bring renewal and redemption to the world. At…

Brian McLaren

I will not quit. Not today.

In case after case, when Christianity has faced a fork in the road, the vast majority took the broad highway of compliance. They went along with their leaders, most without…

Idelette McVicker

Human

I originally wanted to start this conversation by telling you how I am possibly the worst white woman in the room. I used to think that gave me the right…

Jonny Rashid

An agent for personal salvation?

I have to admit, when I first heard this, it threatened my way of thinking about God. Embedded within me is the idea that God is an impartial actor, treating…

Richard Rohr

I know some of us do not want to hear that

Most people are trying to build the platform of their lives all by themselves, while working all the new levers at the same time. I think of CEOs, business leaders,…

Stephen M. R. Covey

Choose Abundance

Abundance means that there is enough for everybody. The opposite - scarcity - says that there is only so much to go around, and if you get it, I won’t.…

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Psychology had become stuck

For three hundred years, physics was predicated on the notion that objects that are far apart can’t directly influence one another. This became our accepted understanding of the way the…

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Perspectives from disabled Christians enrich our theology

A scholar’s book emerged from theology done in partnership with disabled Christians. https://faithandleadership.com/perspectives-disabled-christians-enrich-our-theology

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“Social-political narcolepsy – a condition of uncontrollable sleeping”

White noise keeps us dismally unaware in a racialized world that marks life outcomes and templates of belonging according to the meaning invested in the color of skin. It provides…

Jennifer Garcia Bashaw

America had created a scapegoat

What caused America’s religious and political leaders to direct their fear and anger toward a particular ethnic group that had done nothing more than seek sanctuary for their families in…

Brandan Robertson

How can Christianity help us with our privilege and bias?

But how can Christianity help us with our privilege and bias? How can we as followers of Christ begin to work to understand and address these realities? One of the…

Susan K. Smith

Calling God Good in Bad Times

by Susan K. Smith  We are constantly on the lookout for a “good” God, and to be honest, sometimes we say God is good when we are full of doubt…