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** What our religion offers
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This may owe to my context, and even to some extent my generation, but I don’t always find it easy to hold on to the label Christian. I’ve not for one second been embarrassed by following the way of Jesus—but I have been mortified and horrified by the ways other professing followers espouse nationalism, White supremacy, misogyny, transphobia (the list goes on).
Yet my faith—not everything under the sun called Christian, but the spiritual path I discern, create, and walk with my church community—continues to offer hope and resilience. There is plenty of new Century content about the riches of liberative faith. Brian Bantum shares how theological reflection provides grounding in these troubling times ([link removed]) . In an interview with Alejandra Oliva, Martin Dickinson describes how faith helps establish a framework of dignity for migrant families ([link removed]) suffering in the US. Jason Mahn recounts how time in nature develops gratitude and healthy eco-spiritual practices ([link removed]) in his students’ lives.
Plus scroll down for more great new content, including our video of the week: a chat with scholar Randall Balmer about the personality, faith tradition, and reevaluated legacy of Jimmy Carter ([link removed]) .
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** God of breath and gravity ([link removed])
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“‘Who is God?’ has become somewhat of a daily question for me, a kind of centering I’ve needed as God and Christianity and the Bible are invoked alongside policies of death and confinement and deportation and exclusion.”
by Brian Bantum
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** Defending dignity at the National Cathedral ([link removed])
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“We need to speak out. We need to say, for example, that mass deportation is against our gospel values and our baptismal covenant. We need to not shrink back or worry.”
Alejandra Oliva interviews Martin Dickinson
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** Jimmy Carter’s faith and legacy ([link removed])
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Randall Balmer chats with Jon about Carter’s personality, faith tradition, and reevaluated legacy.
** In the Lectionary for February 9 (Epiphany 5C) ([link removed])
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Was I wrong to preach that Jesus wrecks our lives?
by Diane Roth
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** Learning to see the planet as gift ([link removed])
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“To trace human work through gratitude to grace is pretty standard Lutheran fare. Many at Holden Village add a critical third piece: the gift of God’s creation and in return our care for this gift.”
by Jason A. Mahn
** Competing masculinities in the dojo ([link removed])
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As Cobra Kai’s final season is about to air, we are living in the aftermath of the political backlash to The Karate Kid’s softer kind of power.
by Kathryn Reklis
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