New York Times How to Live in the Face of Fear: Lessons From a Cancer Survivor Kate Bowler is a religion scholar and best-selling author who is sharing daily reflections on Instagram. from the New York Times and Elizabeth Dias https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/05/us/kate-bowler-cancer-coronavirus.html
New York Times A Gloomy Prediction on How Much Poverty Could Rise from the New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/16/upshot/coronavirus-prediction-rise-poverty.html
Uncategorized Can the Meritocracy Find God? from the New York Times Opinion section The secularization of America probably won’t reverse unless the intelligentsia gets religion. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/10/opinion/sunday/religion-meritocracy-god.html
Brandan Robertson Nomad Book Launch Party Join Brandan Robertson for the launch of his new book "Nomad" - Tuesday, August 11, 2020 at 5 PM – 7 PM PDT https://www.facebook.com/events/590064641650073/
Uncategorized Becoming Brave: Finding the Courage to Pursue Racial Justice Now A new book by Brenda Salter McNeil Becoming Brave offers a distinctly Christian framework for addressing systemic injustice. It challenges Christians to be everyday activists who become brave enough to break…
Uncategorized Churches Step In Where Politicians Will Not Why do we need acts of charity to rescue Americans from crushing medical bills? From the New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/27/opinion/covid-medical-debt-church-charity.html
Jen Kidwell Jen Kidwell is the Director of Youth and Adult Discipleship at Silver Spring United Methodist Church in Maryland. She loves journeying through questions of faith, theology, and justice with people…
Uncategorized You Need to Take the Religious Left Seriously This Time An interview with the Rev. Dr. Serene Jones, president of Union Theological Seminary in New York. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/02/25/religious-left-politics-liberal-471640
Uncategorized The Christian Right Is in Decline, and It’s Taking America With It from the New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/09/opinion/religious-right-america.html
Uncategorized From Slavery to Mass Incarceration https://www.benjerry.com/whats-new/2019/08/slavery-to-mass-incarceration
Uncategorized Will We Actually Get To Vote in November? We have now crossed the threshold where we must think about the unthinkable: what happens if the November election is subverted. For the past three and a half years, we’ve…
Uncategorized Donald Trump’s dim decision to scrap Obama-era lightbulb rules New efficiency standards would save consumers money and reduce carbon emissions. Mr Trump says they are “not worth it” https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2019/09/09/donald-trumps-dim-decision-to-scrap-obama-era-lightbulb-rules
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 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 Atlantic Nothing Will Persuade White Evangelicals to Support Impeachment New polling suggests that Trump’s base is totally unified behind the president, no matter what investigations might reveal. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/10/trump-white-evangelical-impeachment/600376/
The Guardian Coal power becoming ‘uninsurable’ as firms refuse cover from The Guardian The number of insurers withdrawing cover for coal projects more than doubled this year and for the first time US companies have taken action, leaving Lloyd’s of…
Jacqui Lewis A heart-stopping school shooting ad: No child should have to text last words to mom. The new Sandy Hook public service announcement is brutal but not gratuitous. It tells us we must not accept gun violence in our schools as inevitable. https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/09/18/sandy-hook-psa-gun-violence-school-shootings-not-inevitable-column/2354471001/
Biochemistry Humans have created a lifeform that’s never before existed. Are we gods, now?https://www.wired.com/story/xenobot/ Meet Xenobot, an Eerie New Kind of Programmable Organism
Mickey Maudlin The latest thoughts from Mickey: Michael G. Maudlin (Mickey) is executive editor and senior vice president of HarperOne. He works with some of the best and the most…
Allie Kochert Allie Kochert, MA, LPC is a psychotherapist, spiritual director, writer, and mom of three. Deeply passionate about supporting moms, helpers, healers, and those in ministry, she serves her call as…
Religion News Service The Overstated Collapse of American Christianity Post-Christian possibilities aren’t the only reason to qualify a narrative of secularization. Here are three points more specific to American Christianity that should be considered alongside the stark declinist story…