WASHINGTON (RNS) — 'For me it was reminiscent of cross burnings,' said the Rev. Ianther M. Mills, pastor of a church whose Black Lives Matter sign was burned. — Read on religionnews.com/2020/12/13/proud-boys-burn-black-lives-matter-signs-at-churches-in-washington/ Trump & Barr's goons tear gassing clergy away from St. John's Episcopal Church on Lafayette Park across from the White House so he could …
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(RNS) — The seminary presidents may be reacting to factions within Southern Baptist circles that have complained the denomination is drifting to the left. — Read on religionnews.com/2020/12/01/southern-baptist-seminary-presidents-nix-critical-race-theory/ The SBC seminary presidents’ rejection of critical race theory is a rejection of anyone who is not a cishet middle-class White male or who critiques White supremacist heteropatriarchy. …
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White Supremacist Ideas Have Historical Roots In U.S. Christianity : NPR — Read on http://www.npr.org/2020/07/01/883115867/white-supremacist-ideas-have-historical-roots-in-u-s-christianity
Resource share: Systemic Racism results from Protestant heresies. European Protestants wanted to make quick money in a legal gray zone in the colonies. Slavery was illegal in England, legal in the colonies. Seizing land was illegal in England, but legal in the colonies...— Mako Nagasawa (@mako_nagasawa) June 23, 2020 ...on the basis of "being more …
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WARNING: video contains expletives.... Also warning, if you care about being “offended” by the use of expletives on the John Oliver show more than being informed & horrified by the long-standing racism & police brutality that kills people like a George Floyd & Breonna Taylor at a rate of 1.5 people a day since 2015 …
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Cornell Brooks On Who Is Responsible For Violence At Protests : NPR — Read on http://www.npr.org/2020/05/31/866390952/former-naacp-head-cornell-brooks-blames-derek-chauvin-for-violence-at-protests
(RNS) — In a Pentecost Sunday address, he referred to the protests wracking the country as “the inevitable reflex of a people who cannot breathe because their life is being systematically snuffed out.” — Read on religionnews.com/2020/05/31/rev-barber-systemic-racism-is-choking-the-life-out-of-american-democracy-george-floyd-protest/
Here’s @jk_rowling on:A. the effects of “isms” (#discrimination & #prejudice) & labels placed on others day-to-day. B. the complex nature of good & evil in persons, as portrayed in #FantasticBeasts: #TheCrimesOfGrindelwald pic.twitter.com/O2XA2WfQTd— Lamb's Harbinger (aka @OtterFella) (@LambsHarbinger) July 4, 2019 https://t.co/GnBlnkpib9— Lamb's Harbinger (aka @OtterFella) (@LambsHarbinger) July 4, 2019
A former SBC professor on his gratitude and disillusionment with the church. — Read on sojo.net/articles/racism-sexism-and-lust-power-southern-baptist-church
