Saturday, July 30, 2016

Fred Clark on Rev. William J. Barber's Moral Revolution: A Rebuke to White Evangelical Reading of the Bible

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As Fred Clark says , there's a reason Rev. William J. Barber cited "Revive Us Again," a venerable hymn long beloved by ...
Friday, July 29, 2016

"This Campaign Is a Choice Between a Normal Political Party and an Abnormal One": Ezra Klein on the (Moral) Choice Confronting American Voters in 2016

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Ezra Klein on the significance (a moral significance) of the 2016 U.S. presidential elections:

Rev. William Barber on 2016 Elections: "I'm Troubled and I'm Worried by the Way Faith Is Cynically Used by Some to Serve Hate, Fear, Racism, and Greed"

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Proponents of the religious right have been in the business for a long time now of pretending that they and they alone mediate God to the...

Father Thomas Reese on How Catholic Vote May Well Decide 2016 Elections: This Analysis Leads to the Question, What's Wrong with White Catholics?

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Father Thomas Reese at National Catholic Reporter  this morning on how the 2016 elections, which present a stark choice between two ve...
Thursday, July 28, 2016

White Catholics, White "Liberal" Churchgoers, and Racism: Three Discussions Hot Off the Presses in Light of Trump

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Three passages from my reading in the past day that speak quite directly to questions I have raised repeatedly in the last several da...
Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Apologies for Errors in My First Posting Today — Have Now Corrected Them

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Just a note to tell you I've re-read my posting earlier today about Robert Jones' book The End of White Christian America , and hav...

Jennifer Finney Boylan on Moral Imagination and the Anti-Trans Agenda of the GOP: Once Again, What Good Does Church Do?

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Jennifer Finney Boylan argues that developing "moral imagination" — the ability to imagine the lives of those different ...