Uncategorized 10 Journalism Brands Where You Find Real Facts Rather Than Alternative Facts by Paul Glader in Forbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/berlinschoolofcreativeleadership/2017/02/01/10-journalism-brands-where-you-will-find-real-facts-rather-than-alternative-facts/#9cc79dde9b5a
Religion News Service Trump is no religious freedom champion from Melissa Rogers via Religion New Service "Evangelicals usually say they oppose governmental discrimination against particular faiths and support the use of uniform standards to evaluate free exercise claims. These…
Uncategorized From Slavery to Mass Incarceration https://www.benjerry.com/whats-new/2019/08/slavery-to-mass-incarceration
Jacqui Lewis Rev. Jacqui Lewis and Peter Wehner discuss Christianity and Trump https://www.msnbc.com/craig-melvin/watch/president-trump-looking-to-cement-and-expand-evangelical-support-76017733559
Brian McLaren This Christmas, the Christianity Today editorial was a ray of light from Brian McLaren https://www.newsweek.com/evangelical-pastor-trump-christianity-today-christmas-1479369
Uncategorized My Semester With the Snowflakes “Being uncomfortable is KEY in this world of ours. Not altogether different from the world of special operations, where the work needs to be done, regardless of weather or personal…
The Atlantic How Trump Lost an Evangelical Stalwart from The Atlantic "Unfortunately, a number of my brothers and sisters will just defend [the president] to the end. They somehow think that’s going to be a good witness to…
New York Times America’s New Religion: Fox Evangelicalism by Amy Sullivan, in the New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/15/opinion/sunday/war-christmas-evangelicals.html
Uncategorized Whose Faith Matters? The Fight for Religious Liberty Beyond the Christian Right A new report from the Law, Rights, and Religion Project at Columbia Law School documents the many contexts in which people of faith engaged in humanitarian and social justice work…
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 Guardian What could the US afford if it raised billionaires’ taxes? We do the math from The Guardian Today, the top 1% of Americans own more wealth than the bottom 90% combined. If the richest 1% of American households paid at the same rates they…
Uncategorized Millennials Are Leaving Religion And Not Coming Back from FiveThirtyEight "A majority (57 percent) of millennials agree that religious people are generally less tolerant of others." "Why does it matter if millennials’ rupture with religion turns out to…
Uncategorized Great Employment Numbers: 44% of Fully Employed Make $18,000 a Year or Less https://therealnews.com/stories/employment-numbers-fully-employed-low-pay-no-security
The Guardian EU aims to stir global action with pledge on climate crisis from The Guardian Brussels sets goal to halve emissions by 2030 and become first climate-neutral continent by 2050 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/dec/11/eu-aims-to-stir-global-action-with-pledge-on-climate-crisis
Religion News Service The Great American Slumbering? "Maybe the millennials are seeing what too many Christians are not. Is it possible that we are living through “The Great American Slumber,” a time when too many churches are…
Uncategorized Resurgence of nationalism is a ‘setback for humanity’, says German theologian Jürgen Moltmann https://www.christiantoday.com/article/resurgence-of-nationalism-is-a-setback-for-humanity-says-german-theologian-jurgen-moltmann/133756.htm
The Guardian Colin Kaepernick is the black Grinch for those who dream of a white America by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar The tactics used to discredit the former quarterback are how conservative America has always treated black athletes who speak out. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/dec/05/colin-kaepernick-kareem-abdul-jabbar
Uncategorized 87 Percent of Americans Unaware There’s Scientific Consensus on Climate Change from Weather.com https://weather.com/science/environment/news/americans-climate-change-scientific-consensus
Uncategorized Trump’s EPA is checking off an anti-environment wish list. Here’s who will suffer. Every day that the EPA quietly ticks off another item, the social and financial consequences are being shifted from polluters to at-risk communities. https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/trump-s-epa-checking-anti-environment-wish-list-here-s-ncna1086321
Uncategorized NEW REPORT: EARTH’S TEMPERATURE LIKELY MARKS HOTTEST DECADE ON RECORD BY MATTHEW GREEN, REUTERS https://sojo.net/articles/new-report-earths-temperature-likely-marks-hottest-decade-record
