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We need a genuine alternative to social media
Social media isn’t just making us miserable, it is stealing from us. It is long past time we tried to do something about it.
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Why this is the good news we hate to hear
The good news offered by John the Baptist is a message against exploitation, fraud, and abuse that is normal to the powerful.
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Beyond Loud Giving — hearing the loud critique
In a story, usually read as a matter of faithfulness, we receive a much louder critique of an impoverishing system of inequality.
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Exploitation at the Temple—for Proper 27B
At the Temple, Jesus teaches about economic exploitation by the powerful and offers a visual metaphor of what it means.
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Breaking up with the money god
When we talk about the problem with money, we need to dig into why we can’t trust in money to solve all of our problems now.
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Should you click this headline?
We use algorithms to help us find the things we want. But they also serve up stuff we’d be better off not feeling like we want.
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Usury—the enemy of trust
The concept of usury—the lending of money immorally, to exploit another—is widely condemned by religions. And practiced everywhere.
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Predatory Society – A Pathology of Cruelty
In a challenging new essay for Eudaimonia & Co., Umair Haque names 5 social pathologies of collapse. And I think they can kickstart a conversation around our culture’s greatest needs. This is my reflection of the fifth pathology: a predatory society. In movies, an easy way to get the audience to connect with the characters on screen is to show…