Patricia Raybon

Slowing Down Time

by Patricia Raybon https://odb.org/2020/01/14/on-time-2

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…

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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…

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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

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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

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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/

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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/

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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…

Patricia Raybon

Loving God Right in 2020

by Patricia Raybon https://www.patriciaraybon.com/loving-god-right-in-2020/

Brian McLaren

This Christmas, the Christianity Today editorial was a ray of light

from Brian McLaren https://www.newsweek.com/evangelical-pastor-trump-christianity-today-christmas-1479369

The Atlantic

Stop Trying to Raise Successful Kids And start raising kind ones.

"Quite a bit of evidence suggests that children who help others end up achieving more than those who don’t." https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/12/stop-trying-to-raise-successful-kids/600751/

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My Semester With the Snowflakes

“Being uncomfortable is KEY in this world of ours. Not altogether different from the world of special operations, where the work needs to be done, regardless of weather or personal…

Rachel Held Evans

By Challenging Evangelicals, She Changed Them

The New York Times interviews Dan Evans, husband of the late Rachel Held Evans. "This week, 'The Daily' is revisiting some of our favorite episodes of the year and checking…