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Rights
It’s about respecting dignity Some Christians talk a lot about their personal rights. But there are a few reasons many others have a hard time talking about rights. Chief among them: that whole God-at-the-center-of-things thing. And yet, our baptismal covenant directs us into different territory than we’re used to hearing in the media. We pledge…
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Becoming People of Peace
We’ve been given a way out of this mess: The Baptismal Covenant. We just need to see that we already know the way.
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S-Hole is the language of Empire
Calling a country a shithole sounds like no big deal. But it is precisely because it serves to demean and divide the world. It isn’t just vulgarity or locker room talk. It’s the language of empire. [Content Warning: The following blog post has some profanity. Like you’ve heard on the news lately.] I was on…
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Denali: the kind of symbolic gesture we’ve needed so that maybe now we can stop being dicks
When I read the news that the White House would change the name of North America’s highest peak, I was elated. And thankful. Mt. McKinley will now be Denali. Outstanding! The article was posted under the headline on Yahoo!’s frontpage: Obama renames North America’s highest peak The president’s action is a symbolic gesture to Alaska Natives on the…
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Mercy Is What We Love
It strikes me that our society is more interested in public shaming than actually changing the behavior of its people. We are more interested in taking pictures of people watering their lawns during a drought than we are in more effectively curbing the practice, or better, than transforming how Californians landscape. Of course, I’m not…
