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It’s not so easy to keep up with the headlines the way I used to. This year I have been limiting my news intake to specific quantities and sources. One consequence of this self-care is that I feel a little less informed about what’s happening in the world. So I’m quite thankful when CC content includes some reportage, eye-witness accounts, or reflections on people’s immediate contexts. This week we have two new pieces that help me feel more updated and connected.
It’s one thing to hear about the patently cruel banning of trans people from military service. It’s another to read a profile of one devastated trans soldier ([link removed]) written by one of her best friends. It’s one thing to be inundated by border-related fear-mongering, rumors, and conflicting data. It’s quite another (and much needed) to hear firsthand what life and policy are actually like at the US southern border ([link removed]) .
Plus even more great content. Our video of the week, just in time for Pride Month, is a chat about solidarity with trans folks ([link removed]) . (It’s also about Derek Webb’s new album, Survival Songs.) Scroll down for a reflection on the limitations of knowledge ([link removed]) , a poem about grief in a church sancturary ([link removed]) , and more.
Jon Mathieu
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** An accomplished soldier, fired for no reason ([link removed])
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“To be shunned, excluded, and deemed unworthy—after giving her life to military service—felt like the ultimate betrayal. A president who had never fought in a war was excommunicating her.”
by Anna Keating
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** An uneasy calm at the border ([link removed])
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“Here in the borderlands, Make America Great Again could more honestly be expressed as Make Everyone Afraid Again.”
by David Hoekema
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** VIDEO: Allyship to the trans community ([link removed])
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Jon chats with Laura Beth Buchleiter about Derek Webb’s Survival Songs and, more broadly, about solidarity with trans folks.
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** In the Lectionary for June 8 (Pentecost C) ([link removed])
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John’s Gospel is permeated with an encouragement, indeed an insistence, on intimacy.
by Liz Goodman
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** Knowledge is not enough ([link removed])
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“I was kind of surprised to discover a Goethe quote about knowledge not being enough. For one thing, I grew up thinking this was a Bruce Lee quote, as does probably more than half the internet.”
by Julian DeShazier
** I Sit Among the Mothers ([link removed])
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in the balcony, summer heat risen,
legs stuck to the pew. Cross
my hands, uncross them. …
poem by Emily Patterson
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