Diana Butler Bass Making Room for a Savior Diana Butler Bass provides an audio devotional for Riverside Church in New York City. “Jesus heals not only us as individuals but a savior has been born, one who will…
The Atlantic How Trump Lost an Evangelical Stalwart from The Atlantic "Unfortunately, a number of my brothers and sisters will just defend [the president] to the end. They somehow think that’s going to be a good witness to…
New York Times America’s New Religion: Fox Evangelicalism by Amy Sullivan, in the New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/15/opinion/sunday/war-christmas-evangelicals.html
Frederick Buechner Five Books for Frederick Buechner Beginners Chosen by Jeffrey Munroe, author of “Reading Buechner: Exploring the Work of a Master Memoirist, Novelist, Theologian, and Preacher” (InterVarsity Press). https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2019/december-web-only/five-books-frederick-buechner-beginners-jeffrey-munroe.html
Uncategorized 25 Books That Teach Kids To Care About The Environment These stories feature messages about recycling, the beauty of nature, environmental activism and more. https://www.huffingtonpost.in/entry/childrens-books-environment_l_5d66f45de4b063c341fa409c
Uncategorized Whose Faith Matters? The Fight for Religious Liberty Beyond the Christian Right A new report from the Law, Rights, and Religion Project at Columbia Law School documents the many contexts in which people of faith engaged in humanitarian and social justice work…
Uncategorized U.N. report: With 40M in poverty, U.S. most unequal developed nation "The United States has the highest income inequality in the Western world, and this can only be made worse by the massive new tax cuts overwhelmingly benefiting the wealthy," Alston…
Uncategorized A Holiday Comeback for Toys ‘R’ Us? Sarah Anderson reports on how retail workers are fighting private equity firms that make money by putting people out of work. https://ips-dc.org/a-holiday-comeback-for-toys-r-us/
Uncategorized Understanding The U.S. Economy: Lots Of Rotten Jobs "When U.S. unemployment is at a 50-year low, why do so many people have trouble finding work with decent pay and adequate predictable hours? A new economic indicator—the US Private…
The Guardian What could the US afford if it raised billionaires’ taxes? We do the math from The Guardian Today, the top 1% of Americans own more wealth than the bottom 90% combined. If the richest 1% of American households paid at the same rates they…
Richard Rohr Twelve-Step Spirituality: Part One – A Universal Addiction by Father Richard Rohr We are all addicts. Human beings are addictive by nature. King writes: “The question for each of us is not whether we are addicted but how we…
Uncategorized Millennials Are Leaving Religion And Not Coming Back from FiveThirtyEight "A majority (57 percent) of millennials agree that religious people are generally less tolerant of others." "Why does it matter if millennials’ rupture with religion turns out to…
Uncategorized Great Employment Numbers: 44% of Fully Employed Make $18,000 a Year or Less https://therealnews.com/stories/employment-numbers-fully-employed-low-pay-no-security
Jana Riess Postcards from the Protestant decline in America by Jana Riess https://religionnews.com/2019/12/10/postcards-from-the-protestant-decline-in-america/
The Guardian EU aims to stir global action with pledge on climate crisis from The Guardian Brussels sets goal to halve emissions by 2030 and become first climate-neutral continent by 2050 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/dec/11/eu-aims-to-stir-global-action-with-pledge-on-climate-crisis
Patricia Raybon Solving the Secret of Everyday Love by Patricia Raybon As Wendell Berry wrote, community “is the ability to pass time with people you do not and will not know well, talking about nothing in particular, with…
Religion News Service The future of adoption is in a child’s own community from Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2019/12/09/the-future-of-adoption-is-in-a-childs-own-community/
Religion News Service The Great American Slumbering? "Maybe the millennials are seeing what too many Christians are not. Is it possible that we are living through “The Great American Slumber,” a time when too many churches are…
Father James Martin This Advent, do less and pray more by Father James Martin https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2019/12/02/advent-do-less-and-pray-more
Brian McLaren Q & R: Spermless conception? by Brian McLaren https://brianmclaren.net/q-r-spermless-conception/
Uncategorized Resurgence of nationalism is a ‘setback for humanity’, says German theologian Jürgen Moltmann https://www.christiantoday.com/article/resurgence-of-nationalism-is-a-setback-for-humanity-says-german-theologian-jurgen-moltmann/133756.htm
