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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/

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National unity isn’t just possible, it’s worth working for

The question is not really whether we can achieve national unity. It is whether we are willing to do the work. https://religionnews.com/2021/02/02/national-unity-isnt-just-possible-its-worth-working-for/

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Reconciliation needs truth

by Jim Wallis https://religionnews.com/2021/01/29/reconciliation-needs-truth/

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From $500,000 to $785, Maryland Episcopal churches commit to reparations

from Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2021/01/27/from-500000-to-785-maryland-episcopal-churches-commit-to-reparations/

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I have election protesters and ‘Never Trumpers’ in my pews. How can we move forward together?

from Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2021/01/26/i-have-election-protestors-and-never-trumpers-in-my-pews-how-can-we-move-forward-together/

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Biden’s first 100 days: What’s not for evangelicals to like?

Biden’s agenda for his first 100 days shares many concerns championed by white evangelicals. by Jonathan Merritt https://religionnews.com/2021/01/25/bidens-first-100-days-whats-not-for-evangelicals-to-like/

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What Andrew Young taught me about keeping King’s movement going

By Maina Mwaura via Religion News Service “Martin would say that if you’re not willing to stand up and lead, go do something else,” Young said. Leadership in the fight…

Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons

Advancing religious freedom abroad starts at home

by Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons and Maggie Siddiqi https://religionnews.com/2021/01/15/advancing-religious-freedom-abroad-starts-at-home/

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What four strangers of different faiths learned while living together during a pandemic

from Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2021/01/12/what-four-strangers-of-different-faiths-learned-while-living-together-during-a-pandemic/

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If you’re religious and supported President Trump

by Jeffrey Salkin in Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2021/01/11/trump-capitol-religion/

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Truth over power: It is past time for the church to speak plainly about the election

from Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2021/01/08/it-is-past-time-for-the-church-to-tell-the-truth-about-the-election/

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If the mob’s attack on the Capitol surprised you, you weren’t paying attention

from Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2021/01/07/if-the-mobs-attack-on-the-capitol-surprised-you-you-werent-paying-attention/

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Taking the white Christian nationalist symbols at the Capitol riot seriously

by Robert P. Jones https://religionnews.com/2021/01/07/taking-the-white-christian-nationalist-symbols-at-the-capitol-riot-seriously/

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How to make a pilgrimage into 2021

We walk forward into unknown terrain, not certain of what we will encounter, but learning to trust that hospitable grace will sustain us. By Wes Granberg-Michaelson https://religionnews.com/2020/12/31/how-to-make-a-pilgrimage-into-2021/

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Millennials Are Leaving Religion And Not Coming Back

from FiveThirtyEight https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/millennials-are-leaving-religion-and-not-coming-back/

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A prayer for a more just, inclusive future for LGBTQ folks in 2021

from Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2020/12/28/a-prayer-for-a-more-just-inclusive-future-for-lgbtq-folks-in-2021/

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Peacemaking is the essential work of our time

Some peacemakers get Nobel Prizes, but most are ordinary people who do extraordinary, countercultural things.  From Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2020/12/15/peacemaking-is-the-essential-work-of-our-time/

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How a Supreme Court bent on protecting religion could harm it

from Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2020/12/01/how-a-supreme-court-bent-on-protecting-religion-could-harm-it/

Jana Riess

I am appalled by America

by Jana Riess; Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2020/12/04/i-am-appalled-by-america/

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Eric Metaxas and the losing of the evangelical mind

Christians can’t wait for the sociologists to sort out why our fellow congregants believe in ‘Q’ or that Trump won the election. We need a strategy to restore a few…

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Churches return land to Indigenous groups as part of #LandBack movement

from Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2020/11/26/churches-return-land-to-indigenous-groups-amid-repentance-for-role-in-taking-it-landback-movement/ The returns come as some mainline Protestant Christian denominations have learned about and repudiated the Doctrine of Discovery, the justification for European Christians to seize…