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Compassionate Resistance for 3/21/17
"If ICE comes to your house, there’s no way you can leave to find sanctuary in one of our congregations. So the idea came: How do we bring the congregation to the house?"
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Mark Lilla's Care and Feeding of the White Man
Why you shouldn't believe Mark Lilla's axe-grinding screed against the politics of civil rights.
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Put It into Action
Over the next four years, we must promise to be there to pick up the weight when it’s time for others to put it down. We must be there for each other in love and solidarity.
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Way Past Sufferin' Till Suffrage
The lessons of inclusion and fairness some voters still refuse to learn got through to me loud and clear four decades ago on Saturday morning television.
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When Lives Matter, Shout Out, Not Down
How close should allies be standing to the Black Lives Matter movement? And who gets to decide who they are and how close they stand, anyway?
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Would Obama Give an Address on Terrorism on Christmas Eve?
A presidential address on terrorism would never happen on Christmas Eve. So why did one happen in the middle of the first evening of Chanukah?
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No Refuge for Racists on Thanksgiving Eve
This Thanksgiving, keep your harbors open to the tired, the poor, the needy, the homeless. But there is no need to accept casual racists.
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Life and Death at the Morality Buffet
Either civilian casualties are immoral or they aren't. On the ongoing terror wave in Israel and the value of all innocent civilian lives.
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Faith in Government and Judge David Bunning
Last night, someone in my Facebook network attempted to dox and personally harass Judge David Bunning, the presiding judge in the Kim Davis controversy. Ask me how that worked out for them.
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How Far Would You Go to Repair the World?
Columbia College fakes a protest movement to teach students about real-world problems. An acquaintance knows their job is committing racial discrimination but does nothing. When you have a chance to help repair the world but don't, is that OK? And when?
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Express Scripts: Loose Lips Get Thanksgiving Pink Slips
Why do some companies persist in thinking that human kindness and federal labor law are mere impediments to profitability? Spiritual bankruptcy, perhaps? You can fill your heart with fairness or you can try to fill the hole in your soul with money. But at the end of the day, you still have to live i
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The Point Is Working Families, Not Keith Olbermann
Progressive bloggers are grousing that major media made MSNBC's Keith Olbermann suspension a top story...by continuing to make Keith Olbermann a top story, themselves. But is Olbermann's job status what unemployed and under-employed Americans really care about?