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Diana Butler Bass “Grateful athletes are more satisfied with their team and overall lives.” In a recent academic study, Professor Lung Hung Cheng discovered that athletes with a strong sense of gratitude had a higher sense of personal well-being and team satisfaction: “Grateful athletes…
Diana Butler Bass America is no longer as evangelical as it was — and here’s why by Diana Butler Bass Opinion: America is no longer as evangelical as it was -- and here's why - CNN
Diana Butler Bass Not Dead Yet White mainline Protestants now outnumber white evangelicals, and conventional wisdom goes out the window. by Diana Butler Bass https://dianabutlerbass.substack.com/p/not-dead-yet
Diana Butler Bass For the first time in two months, I felt grateful. Jesus blessed history’s losers. No wonder people all those years ago had listened. No wonder they remembered and wrote it down. No wonder it is still so powerful two millennia…
Diana Butler Bass Gratitude covenants Communal gratitude cannot—and should not—be compulsory. Forcing gratitude, especially when required by those in positions of power, is another way of placating authoritarian egos or asserting control in hierarchical systems.…
Diana Butler Bass Zacchaeus Zacchaeus thought that gratitude was a political structure of benefactors and beneficiaries that he could manipulate for his own benefit. Then Jesus called him down from that tree and invited…
Diana Butler Bass “Play unplugged my fear” It turns out that play and gratitude are linked. Mary Beth Sammons, coauthor of The Grateful Life, recalls how she struggled as her father and mother passed away—not quickly—but over…
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/
Diana Butler Bass Gratitude empowers us "Gratitude empowers us. It makes joy and love possible. It rearranges the way we see and experience what is all around us. Gratitude does not fix things. It transforms how…
William Barber At inaugural prayer service, a message of renewal and ‘repairing the breach’ The service featured prayers and sermons from some of Donald Trump's biggest religious critics. https://religionnews.com/2021/01/21/at-inaugural-prayer-service-a-message-of-renewal-and-repairing-the-breach/
Diana Butler Bass Gratitude is structure When I started on a path to a more grateful life, I never imagined that the journey would lead to reconsidering ethics and politics, yet it seems somewhat inevitable now.…
Diana Butler Bass The larger social consequences of gratitude Social scientists and psychologists argue that gratitude will make us happier, develop greater resiliency, and provide better outcomes of health and well-being. If gratitude is but an individualistic practice, however,…
Diana Butler Bass Gratitude resists unhealthy environments and empowers the possibility of change We might be grateful persons, with thankful hearts, and be fanatical about gratitude journals and intentions, but as soon as we walk out our front door or turn on the…
Diana Butler Bass Water “[Jesus] gives water, and he is water.” (Grounded, p. 76) SCRIPTURE: If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, “Give me a…
Diana Butler Bass Gratitude as Privilege Donald Trump was born to a wealthy family, inherited a fortune, and made even more money in his own business empire. Trump depicted himself at the top of the economic…
Diana Butler Bass Gratitude It cannot be overstated that gratitude is an emotion, a complex set of feelings involving appreciation, humility, wonder, and interdependence. Gratitude is, however, more than just an emotion. It is…
Diana Butler Bass A culture unto itself The following sharp assessment came from an Anglican in Sydney, Australia: “I’m continually being disappointed by (bordering on disillusioned by) the institutional church. Institutional self-preservation seems more important than those…
Diana Butler Bass It’s Easy to Have Gratitude When… | A Conversation Between Diana Butler Bass and Anne Lamott
Diana Butler Bass Gratitude involves not only what we feel, but also what we do. It cannot be overstated that gratitude is an emotion, a complex set of feelings involving appreciation, humility, wonder, and interdependence. Gratitude is, however, more than just an emotion. It is…
