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by Diana Butler Bass https://dianabutlerbass.substack.com/p/sunday-musings-497?r=43xc6&s=r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

by Lisa Sharon Harper https://religionnews.com/2022/09/15/queen-elizabeth-king-charles-on-spiritual-implications-of-imperial-succession/

https://religionnews.com/2022/09/06/the-christian-rights-original-sin/

America’s race laws laid foundations for antidemocracy within the world’s first democracy. Democracy is inherently about equity and fairness - one person, one vote. Since 1662, thumbs were placed on…

Science now tells us that this spiritual faculty is inborn, fundamental to the human constitution, central in our physiology and psychology. Spirituality links brain, mind, and body. As we’ll see…

by Susan K. Smith https://candidobservation.com/2022/08/15/look-what-theyve-done-to-christianity/

I grew up in the American South, in the world of white evangelicalism. I attended their churches and youth camps, trained for ministry at their schools, preached at their churches.…

The four overlapping but distinct stages of wound healing are the central images of this book, which we will turn to again and again. The first stage is hemostasis, or…

by Brian McLaren https://www.premierchristianity.com/opinion/thank-god-that-more-people-are-deconstructing-their-faith/13570.article

This unconscious discriminatory attitude is known as implicit bias or implicit social cognition and is well documented by social scientists and psychologists. The Kirwan Institute at Ohio State University defines…

The moment is ripe for a different kind of popular movement that confronts divisive lies and builds broad coalitions for the common good. https://religionnews.com/2022/08/08/we-need-an-alternative-populist-vision-to-defeat-the-maga-movement/

There are many other areas where I am alarmed about the effects of Christianity’s biased and constricted intellectualism, not just on Christians but on everyone. For example, when Christian individuals…

https://religionnews.com/2022/08/11/progressive-national-baptists-afl-cio-reunite-for-midterms-voter-initiative/

https://religionnews.com/2022/07/29/10-ways-to-make-your-worship-space-less-ableist/

by Blake Chastain https://religionnews.com/2022/08/04/how-to-answer-when-christian-nationalists-embrace-the-label-as-a-badge-of-honor/

In 2016 I was invited to spend time on Robben Island, a small island off the coast near Cape Town that was once used as a political prison by the…

https://www.insider.com/12000-christians-condemn-marjorie-taylor-greene-embrace-gop-christian-nationalism-2022-7

In a study from the year 2000, psychologist Dr. Jean Twenge performed a meta-analysis of anxiety in schoolchildren and college students in order to track the development of anxiety and…

by Melanie A. Howard https://theconversation.com/what-the-bible-actually-says-about-abortion-may-surprise-you-186983

This pattern of resistance is so clear and even so defeating for Jesus that he makes what sounds like one of his most unkind statements: ”Do not give to dogs…