Parker Palmer History has always been made by individuals doing their small parts Think about everyday experiences outside of politics - in your family, neighborhood, workplace, or the voluntary associations to which you belong. In settings of that sort, when was the last…
Religion News Service Study: Americans overwhelmingly support LGBTQ nondiscrimination laws The 2020 American Values Atlas study from PRRI finds that at least 60% of every U.S. religious group favors laws that would protect LGBTQ people from discrimination. But religious leaders…
Matthew Tennant Trying to get along Faith means Democrats and Republicans can get along. What about people from different ideological worldviews? Can they come together? Again, faith’s answer is, “Yes!” Coming together does not mean surrendering…
John Pavlovitz The Former President is Making Present Monsters by John Pavlovitz https://johnpavlovitz.com/2021/03/17/the-former-president-is-making-present-monsters/
Religion News Service Why Congress needs to act on immigration: It’s our nation too by Luis Velasquez https://religionnews.com/2021/03/11/why-congress-needs-to-act-on-immigration/
Parker Palmer Let’s not talk about “them” As I listen in on private and public conversations about the problems of American democracy, I’m struck time and again by how often our political talk is about people who…
Religion News Service ELCA leaders call on Congress to pass US Citizenship Act of 2021 in new letter Leaders of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America threw their support behind what they called ‘fair and compassionate transformations to our nation’s broken immigration system.’ https://religionnews.com/2021/03/04/elca-leaders-call-on-congress-to-pass-u-s-citizenship-act-of-2021-in-new-letter/
Uncategorized You Need to Take the Religious Left Seriously This Time An interview with the Rev. Dr. Serene Jones, president of Union Theological Seminary in New York. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/02/25/religious-left-politics-liberal-471640
Religion News Service How (un)compassionate conservatism failed Texas https://religionnews.com/2021/03/01/how-uncompassionate-conservatism-failed-texas/
Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons Conservatives opposing the Equality Act don’t speak for most people of faith, and they know it by Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons Most Americans, including religious ones, support LGBTQ people's right to nondiscriminatory treatment. So conservative fearmongers switched tactics. https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/conservatives-opposing-equality-act-don-t-speak-most-people-faith-ncna1258910
Jana Riess On Joss Whedon, cancel culture, and the Bible I won’t be torching my Harry Potter books or throwing my Buffy DVDs on a bonfire. I’d have to throw my Bible to the flames as well. by Jana Riess…
Uncategorized Evangelical Leaders Condemn ‘Radicalized Christian Nationalism’ from NPR https://www.npr.org/2021/02/24/970685909/evangelical-leaders-condemn-radicalized-christian-nationalism
Uncategorized Renegades: Born in the USA Renegades: Born in the USA is a series of conversations between President Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen about their lives, music, and enduring love of America—despite all its challenges.
Religion News Service The impeachment vote was a vote for white supremacy by Andre Henry - The refusal to confront the white supremacy at the Capitol is a refusal to reconcile America’s lofty democratic rhetoric with the state of its floundering institutions.…
Robin DiAngelo We cling tightly to the ideology of individualism when asked to consider our own unearned advantage Individualism is a story line that creates, communicates, reproduces, and reinforces the concept that each of us is a unique individual and that our group memberships, such as race, class,…
Mark Feldmeir “Give me your tired, your poor” “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my…
Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons Private schools in the South opened by white parents to avoid desegregated public schools The Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 was heralded by progressive Christians and many other Americans as a huge advance for social justice, but it…
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/
Shane Claiborne A former Confederate state just voted to abolish its death penalty. Here’s why that’s a big deal by Shane Claiborne https://religionnews.com/2021/02/05/a-former-confederate-state-just-abolished-its-death-penalty-heres-why-thats-a-big-deal/
Robin DiAngelo These ideologies make it very difficult We make sense of perceptions and experiences through our particular cultural lens. This lens is neither universal nor objective, and without it, a person could not function in any human…
