Religion News Service The Fulton Supreme Court decision could increase discrimination against religious minorities While most of the analysis of this case has centered on the possible impact on LGBTQ Americans, we should also be aware of how a potential ruling could affect religious…
Telos Evangelical Christians must rethink their reflexive support for Israel By Greg Khalil from Telos. Four reasons evangelicals are reluctant to support equality for Palestinians and Israelis publicly. https://religionnews.com/2021/05/27/evangelical-christians-must-rethink-their-reflexive-support-for-israel/
Religion News Service Public Religion Research Institute: White evangelicals, Hispanic Protestants, Mormons most likely to believe in QAnon The groups are also the most likely to consume far-right media, which researchers noted is 'by far the strongest independent predictor of QAnon beliefs.' https://religionnews.com/2021/05/27/survey-white-evangelicals-hispanic-protestants-and-mormons-most-likely-believe-in-qanon/
Uncategorized What We Believe About History by Kristin Kobes Du Mez https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/27/special-series/kristin-kobes-du-mez-what-we-believe-about-history.html
Parker Palmer The invisible dynamics of the human heart and the visible venues of our lives The democratic experiment is endless, unless we blow up the lab, and the explosives to do the job are found within us. But so also is the heart’s alchemy that…
Religion News Service Poor People’s Campaign, lawmakers unveil sweeping resolution to tackle poverty https://religionnews.com/2021/05/20/poor-peoples-campaign-lawmakers-unveil-sweeping-resolution-to-tackle-poverty/
Uncategorized A short history of the long conservative assault on Black voting power https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/08/politics/black-voter-suppression/index.html
Robert P. Jones The link between political leaders and prominent white churches was not just incidental It would not be until I was well into a PhD program at Emory University in my thirties that I was confronted with the brutal violence that white Christians deployed…
Parker Palmer Through the eye of the heart Looking at politics through the eye of the heart can liberate us from seeing it as a chess game of moves and countermoves or a shell game for seizing power…
Matthew Tennant Listening Listening enables us to understand the other person. When we stop what we are doing and focus our attention on the other person, we can learn something. To learn something…
Religion News Service Evangelicals are losing their climate skepticism No wonder the pushback on President Joe Biden’s climate agenda has thus far been minimal. https://religionnews.com/2021/04/28/evangelicals-are-losing-their-climate-skepticism/
Parker Palmer We must hold divisions and contradictions with compassion I discovered a book that helped me understand how heartbreak and depression - two of the most isolating and disabling experiences I know - can expand one’s sense of connectedness…
Uncategorized CDC Director Declares Racism A ‘Serious Public Health Threat’ from NPR https://www.npr.org/2021/04/08/985524494/cdc-director-declares-racism-a-serious-public-health-threat
Parker Palmer We must find ways to bridge our differences If we want to “create a politics worthy of the human spirit,” we must find ways to bridge our differences, whether they are defined by age, gender, class, race, ethnicity,…
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
Uncategorized Faith is positive Faith is positive. It hopes for something. It looks to the future and imagines something better. In a perfect world, everyone wins. The gospel has a universal message: “God so…
Religion News Service William Barber preaches at Easter vigil service spotlighting Christian Palestinians from Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2021/04/06/william-barber-preaches-at-easter-vigil-service-acknowledging-christian-palestinians/
The Guardian ‘Allergic reaction to US religious right’ fueling decline of religion, experts say Alison Gill, vice-president for legal and policy at American Atheists, who authored a report into the creep of Christian extremism in the US, warned that the drop-off in religious adherence…
Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons Why I’m going to church for Easter by Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/03/opinions/easter-jesus-gallup-poll-church-decline-graves-fitzsimmons/index.html
Shane Claiborne Jesus wept over Jerusalem. Is he weeping over our gun problem? by Shane Claiborne https://religionnews.com/2021/03/30/jesus-wept-over-jerusalem-is-he-weeping-over-our-gun-problem/
Sojourners We Have A Chance To Redeem Voting Rights https://sojo.net/articles/we-have-chance-redeem-voting-rights
