Uncategorized Study: More than 3/4 of Republican evangelicals want US declared a Christian nation While some Christian groups would like the US government to make their faith the official religion of the US, a new poll shows most Americans know that would be unconstitutional.…
Brian McLaren Bought by powerful corporate leaders Most Christians today remain unaware of how Christian leaders since the 1930s have been intentionally co-opted (or, more bluntly, bought) by powerful corporate leaders in America (and elsewhere) to provide…
John Pavlovitz Courting Fascism: Facing America’s Supreme Coup by John Pavlovitz https://johnpavlovitz.com/2022/07/03/courting-fascism-facing-americas-supreme-coup/
Brian McLaren The choice for many Christians is easy: it’s better for the good guys to win while breaking the rules than for the bad guys to win according to the rules It’s not just contorted history and science that predominate: it’s also twisted, constricted politics. Since democracy is never found in the Bible and since it is only applied in very…
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 Any attempt to repair what race broke in our nation must contend with what race broke in our faith. The varying perceptions of the Christian story divided our nation in antebellum times into two main camps: those who reconciled slavery and those who opposed slavery, both based on biblical…
Justin Phillips How does it feel to be a problem? I am a problem. This acknowledgment is not about self-hatred or performative white guilt, but rather a reckoning with my history, that I have either benefited from someone else’s hardship or gotten benefits of…
Robert P. Jones The Sacred Work of White Discomfort by Robert P. Jones https://robertpjones.substack.com/p/the-sacred-work-of-white-discomfort
Sojourners How Will We Teach Our Kids About Jan. 6? by Adam Russell Taylor of Sojourners https://sojo.net/articles/how-will-we-teach-our-kids-about-jan-6
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
John Pavlovitz I’m Not Saying Conservative Christianity is Anti-Jesus. Jesus is. by John Pavlovitz https://johnpavlovitz.com/2021/11/05/im-not-saying-conservative-christianity-is-anti-jesus-jesus-is/
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/
Diana Butler Bass Wolf in Fleece Clothing by Diana Butler Bass https://dianabutlerbass.substack.com/p/wolf-in-fleece-clothing
Heather McGhee Why would white voters have rallied to the flag of a man whose agenda promised to wreak economic, social, and environmental havoc on them along with everyone else? On the day Donald Trump was to take the oath of office in 2017, I’d been the president of Demos for three years. I was gearing up to fight against…
The Atlantic The Evangelical Church is Breaking Apart: Christians must reclaim Jesus from his church by Peter Wehner in The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/10/evangelical-trump-christians-politics/620469/
Religion News Service Maine faith leaders sign letter calling on Sen. Susan Collins to back For the People Act https://religionnews.com/2021/08/10/maine-faith-leaders-sign-letter-calling-on-sen-susan-collins-to-back-for-the-people-act/
Uncategorized White Christian Nationalism in the United States: An Online Mini-Conference https://raac.iupui.edu/programs/events/white-christian-nationalism-in-the-united-states-an-online-mini-conference/
Robert P. Jones Why are White evangelicals embracing an anti-democratic movement? from the Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/07/12/white-evangelicals-decline-spurs-an-anti-democratic-movement/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=wp_opinions
Parker Palmer The loss of efficiency is more than offset Our diversity consists only in part in demographic differences such as race, ethnicity, and social class. Equally important are the wildly different lenses through which we see, think, and believe.…
Lenny Duncan A cage is a cage, after all Capitalism is a satanic structure that’s built on the idea of building a meritocracy in the midst of democracy. In this system, we are told if we work hard and…
Susan K. Smith Diametrically Opposed Belief Systems If it was puzzling to me how, in spite of the presence of God and the Bible there could be such racism, I was comforted to learn that I was…
