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Don’t Just Fact-Check Those Racist Tweets
The bigger argument doesn’t rely on facts. Fact-checking racist tweets is only so useful. But it is really, really enticing. When the president suggested four U.S. Representatives “go back” to other countries he offered the kind of red meat few can resist. Not that resisting that impulse is actually better. It is not. But many…
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Why do Neo-Nazis need a police escort?
Dealing with Neo-Nazis and white nationalists doesn’t need to be that complicated.
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Jesus gets out of their way
Yes, the Ascension is a weird story. But it is more than a moment. In the Ascension, we receive our purpose, conviction, and ultimately, our hope. why the Ascension is essential to the storyAscension Day C | Luke 24:44-53 Years ago, when news broke that Mel Gibson was going to make a movie about Jesus,…
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Paul, James, and the politics of poverty
Today’s conversations about poverty are based on a fundamentally flawed argument.
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New Life
Whiteness justifies domination. But our ancient story reveals the nature of God isn’t the perpetuation of the powerful, but giving freedom to the oppressed. Part 2 There is only one Exodus narrative in the Bible, but there are two exodus stories. At least as far as it has played out in history. The first fifteen…
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Unearthing Whiteness
The greatest challenge to race relations in the US is whiteness. Not in skin color, but the belief that European cultural roots are fundamentally better. Part 1 “If Trayvon was of age and armed, could he have stood his ground on that sidewalk?” —President Barack Obama, July 19, 2013 This is the question we refuse…
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How to summarize a time of great division
Kelly Brown Douglas confronts the history which not only brought us Stand Your Ground laws, but undergirds a constant struggle for continued oppression.
