Bill McKibben Are We Past the Peak of Big Oil’s Power? By Bill McKibben https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/are-we-past-the-peak-of-big-oils-power?mbid=social_twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_brand=tny&utm_social-type=owned
Uncategorized Behind Trump’s demand to reopen churches: Slipping poll numbers and alarm inside his campaign from Politico https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/22/trump-churches-evaneglicals-coronavirus-274842
Religion News Service How Americans’ ‘tell it like it is’ attitude renders us vulnerable to conspiracy theories Americans, distrustful of institutions that would prescribe knowledge for us, have been especially prone to believe what they see online, writes Tara Isabella Burton. https://religionnews.com/2020/05/19/how-americans-tell-it-like-it-is-attitude-renders-us-vulnerable-to-conspiracy-theories/
Sojourners Voter suppression is a theological issue by Jim Wallis https://religionnews.com/2020/05/15/voter-suppression-is-a-theological-issue/
New York Times In a First, Renewable Energy Is Poised to Eclipse Coal in U.S. from the New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/13/climate/coronavirus-coal-electricity-renewables.html The United States is on track to produce more electricity this year from renewable power than from coal for the first time on record,…
William Barber Rev. Barber’s Poor People’s Campaign calls for resistance to reopening plans It is urging Congress, the president and state governors to follow the recommendations of public health experts and not risk a resurgence of the virus, which is disproportionately affecting poor,…
Shane Claiborne Gun control group starts faith-driven push ahead of election from Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2020/05/12/gun-control-group-starts-faith-driven-push-ahead-of-election/
Religion News Service Christian leaders seek $4B for secure voting during pandemic from Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2020/05/11/christian-leaders-seek-4b-for-secure-voting-during-pandemic/
Sojourners From Vietnam to the coronavirus pandemic, lies still kill by Jim Wallis https://religionnews.com/2020/05/08/from-vietnam-to-the-coronavirus-pandemic-lies-still-kill/
Simone Campbell Responding to the Need Laid Bare by Sister Simone Campbell https://networklobby.org/20200505envisioning/
Religion News Service Crowded into camps, refugees are sitting ducks for COVID-19 https://religionnews.com/2020/05/05/refugees-at-high-risk-of-covid-19/
Sojourners Unequal suffering: Here’s how Congress should help by Jim Wallis While each of us has borne a variety of new burdens and dangers during this pandemic, those burdens are by no means distributed equally. On the one…
Sojourners Truth, unity and solidarity: Three prerequisites to reopening America by Jim Wallis https://religionnews.com/2020/04/24/truth-unity-and-solidarity-three-prerequisites-to-reopening-america/
Religion News Service How a rally for the right in Charlottesville emboldened a resurgent Religious Left from Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2020/04/17/how-a-rally-for-the-right-in-charlottesville-emboldened-a-reviving-religious-left/
Shane Claiborne, Uncategorized Heeding God’s Call to End Gun Violence https://www.heedinggodscall.org/
Religion News Service When character counts most in choosing a president from Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2020/04/16/when-character-counts-most-in-choosing-a-president/
Alexia Salvatierra Immigrants in detention don’t deserve a death sentence by Alexia Salvatierra https://religionnews.com/2020/04/04/immigrants-in-detention-dont-deserve-a-death-sentence/
Shane Claiborne How the war on Christmas became the war on Easter by Shane Claiborne https://religionnews.com/2020/04/04/how-the-war-on-christmas-became-the-war-on-easter/
Uncategorized Woman Responds To Companies Failing Because Of Coronavirus By Saying The Same Things Poor People Hear Those who are living below the poverty line have always faced criticism from both politicians and the public. While there are many proposed causes of poverty, those who rely on…
The Atlantic Americans’ Revulsion for Trump Is Underappreciated from The Atlantic As Democrats fret about their own prospects, many fail to recognize the president’s fundamental weakness. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/the-democrats-dont-understand-their-own-strength/608611/
Religion News Service Caring more for each other could have ameliorated the pandemic. It’s not too late. from Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2020/03/24/without-solidarity-it-is-going-to-get-worse/