Religion News Service Human Rights Campaign starts election-season focus on LGBTQ, religious relations The Human Rights Campaign — which works to promote LGBTQ equality — has started an election-season tour in which its president will visit houses of worship of different faiths to…
Frederick Buechner Compassion by Frederick Buechner Compassion is the sometimes fatal capacity for feeling what it's like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and…
Uncategorized The boss who put everyone on 70K A tech boss in Seattle introduced a $70,000 minimum salary for all his staff - by cutting his own wages. Five years on, he has no regrets. https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-51332811
Kaitlin Curtice A Community of Unknowing by Kaitlin Curtice A community of unknowing embraces those parts of our humanity and our sacred belonging that lean into how important it is to name the fact that we…
Religion News Service “When racism raises its ugly head, we must fight. As we fight, we must love.” The South Carolina minister who fought a Klan shop is now depicted in a new movie. https://religionnews.com/2020/02/26/s-c-minister-who-fought-redneck-shop-and-preaches-love-now-depicted-in-movie/
Religion News Service Solidarity over segregation: Faith-based coalitions organize across races, religions This story is one in a series by Religion News Service about the future of segregation and integration in American religion. People Acting for Community Together has helped Christians, Jews…
Uncategorized The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Will Officially Become a Part of Oklahoma School Curriculum Beginning in the Fall https://www.theroot.com/the-1921-tulsa-race-massacre-will-officially-become-a-p-1841814944
Kaitlin Curtice ‘That’s a Lie’: The Heckling of BIWOC on Christian Campus by Kathy Khang https://www.redletterchristians.org/thats-a-lie-the-heckling-of-biwoc-on-christian-campus/
Uncategorized Mary McLeod Bethune was born the daughter of slaves. She died a retired college president https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/2020/02/10/mary-mcleod-bethune-daughter-slaves-bethune-cookman-college-daytona-beach/4540835002/
Religion News Service Report: White supremacist propaganda on college campuses doubled in 2019 from Religion News Service White supremacist groups doubled down on colleges and universities across the country in 2019, blanketing campuses and off-campus haunts with propaganda, according to a new report…
Kaitlin Curtice The Super Bowl Is Over. The Discrimination Indigenous Peoples Face Is Not by Kaitlin Curtice via Sojourners https://sojo.net/articles/super-bowl-over-discrimination-indigenous-peoples-face-not
Brandan Robertson A Continued Call to The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) to Reflect on LGBTQ+ Inclusion by Brandan Robertson
William Barber Dr. William J. Barber II Wants You to Remember “The Real Martin Luther King, Jr.” https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dr-william-j-barber-ii-wants-you-to-remember-the_b_5a5d6d90e4b003efadb6b07e
Uncategorized Trump Tax Cut Hands $32 Billion Windfall to America’s Top Banks Savings for the top six U.S. banks from President Donald Trump’s signature tax overhaul accelerated last year, now topping $32 billion as the lenders curbed new borrowing, pared jobs and…
James Baldwin 10 James Baldwin Books to Read in Your Lifetime https://www.oprahmag.com/entertainment/books/a26012817/best-james-baldwin-books/
New York Times Trump’s Plot Against Health Care Continues by Paul Krugman at the New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/13/opinion/obamacare-medicare-for-all.html
Brandan Robertson Deconstructing the tolerance paradox: why Conservatives’ go-to line is garbage. https://medium.com/@parkermolloy/deconstructing-the-tolerance-paradox-why-conservatives-go-to-line-is-garbage-666a1bf04a65
Richard Rohr Dancing Polarities by Richard Rohr The words action and contemplation aptly describe the two dancing polarities of our lives. In classic Christian philosophy, Thomas Aquinas and many others stated that the highest form of spiritual maturity…
Uncategorized Daily multidimensional racial discrimination among Black U.S. American adolescents from the Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology Highlights Racial discrimination occurs individually, vicariously, online, offline, and in teasing.Black adolescents average over five racial discrimination experiences per day.Online experiences are more…
Brandan Robertson Tolerance Is Not A Progressive Value by Brandan Robertson via Patheos https://www.patheos.com/blogs/revangelical/2020/01/08/tolerance-is-not-a-progressive-value.html
Uncategorized Poverty Grew In One-Third Of U.S. Counties Despite Strong National Economy Most of the biggest increases were in areas both rural and Southern. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/poverty-rate-us-counties_n_5dfbc63ee4b0eb2264d672f1
