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…
William Barber Poor People’s Campaign Announces 9-Month, 20-Plus State, “We Must Do M.O.R.E.” Tour WASHINGTON, DC – The Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II and the Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, national co-chairs of the “Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival,” host…
Religion News Service Report: White supremacist propaganda on college campuses doubled in 2019 from Religion News Service White supremacist groups doubled down on colleges and universities across the country in 2019, blanketing campuses and off-campus haunts with propaganda, according to a new report…
Jana Riess White evangelicals courted Trump’s toxic masculinity for decades by Jana Riess in Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2020/07/22/white-evangelicals-didnt-hold-their-noses-to-vote-for-trump-his-toxic-masculinity-is-what-theyve-been-defending-for-decades/ Jana speaks with Kristin Du Mez about her new book, “Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured…
Uncategorized Yolanda Pierce on grandmother theology, Black Jesus and Mariology 'I'm really trying to shift the discourse about who can do theology and what counts as theological source material,' says the first woman dean of Howard University’s divinity school and…
Religion News Service “When racism raises its ugly head, we must fight. As we fight, we must love.” The South Carolina minister who fought a Klan shop is now depicted in a new movie. https://religionnews.com/2020/02/26/s-c-minister-who-fought-redneck-shop-and-preaches-love-now-depicted-in-movie/
John Pavlovitz Excerpts from the MAGA Bible A previously undiscovered version of the Christian Bible was recently unearthed during a renovation beneath the bathroom of a Louisville, Kentucky Chick-Fil-A. This new ‘MAGA Translation,’ contains the ‘Gospel According to…
Religion News Service How to make our politics better: Pray first, says a Jesuit guide from Religion News Service The kind of prayer recommended by a new pamphlet on civic engagement is the kind that helps us listen, detached from our own preconceptions and prejudices.…
Religion News Service Harriet Tubman, in movie and real life, guided by faith in fight for freedom A new movie on the life of Harriet Tubman makes plain how the young Maryland slave put her faith before fear to rescue herself and dozens of other enslaved people.…
Cory Jones Cory Jones lives in Little Rock, AR with his wife and 8 children. He graduated from Abilene Christian University in 2001 with a degree in preaching, and spent 15 years…
Consciousness Perhaps the most concise explanation of the scientific research community’s definition of consciousness: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-superhuman-mind/201303/what-is-consciousness Does Consciousness Pervade the Universe? A proposal to study consciousness at Stanford gives us insight into…
Diana Butler Bass Three Views of Jeep’s Bruce Springsteen Commercial from Diana Butler Bass: https://dianabutlerbass.substack.com/p/a-better-middle?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=copy from Jeffrey Salkin: https://religionnews.com/2021/02/09/super-bowl-jeep/ from Amanda Tyler https://religionnews.com/2021/02/11/dear-jeep-christian-nationalism-cannot-unite-us/
Daniel Bowman Jr. Applied behavior analysis A neurodiversity paradigm asserts the basic fact that autism doesn’t need to be fixed; it simply needs to be understood and accepted. This is important, because people who see it…
Heather McGhee The old zero-sum paradigm is not just counterproductive; it’s a lie. The logical extension of the zero-sum story is that a future without racism is something white people should fear, because there will be nothing good for them in it. They…
Lisa Sharon Harper – Fortune Our interview with Lisa Sharon Harper for her new book "Fortune: How Race Broke My Family and the World and How to Repair It All" is
Uncategorized My first attempt at writing about autism My first attempt at writing about autism begins with a direct, three-word sentence: “I am autistic.” The simple declaration is the most hard-won line in a piece filled with them.…
Robert P. Jones It’s the most ‘angry’ time of the year? By Robert P. Jones – A new survey highlights just how angry vaccinated and unvaccinated Americans are with each other today. https://religionnews.com/2021/12/11/its-the-most-angry-time-of-the-year/
Heather McGhee Today our schools are nearly as segregated as they were before Brown v. Board of Education In my gut, I’ve always known that laws are merely expressions of a society’s dominant beliefs. It’s the beliefs that must shift in order for outcomes to change. When policies…
Uncategorized US Muslims gave more to charity than other Americans in 2020 Muslim Americans gave more to charity in 2020 than non-Muslims, a new study found. They are also more likely to volunteer, we learned. https://theconversation.com/us-muslims-gave-more-to-charity-than-other-americans-in-2020-170689
Robert P. Jones Study: Most white evangelicals don’t want to live in a religiously diverse country The new American Values Survey from PRRI also shows that 60% of white evangelicals believe the 2020 presidential election was stolen. No other religious group comes close. https://religionnews.com/2021/11/01/study-most-white-evangelicals-dont-want-to-live-in-a-religiously-diverse-country/
Uncategorized Contributions of this book Though we intend for this book to be introductory, we also hope that it will make substantive contributions to larger conversations regarding reparations both inside and outside of communities of…