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Don’t restrict or limit God

Addressing racism requires a new language

~Catholic News Service

Don’t restrict or limit God. That’s what happens when we don’t look to see how much beauty there is in every ethnicity. We restrict God and we must not and cannot do that…

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Youngstown, Oh churches deal with racism

People of many faith backgrounds participated in a discussion on race…

~vindy.com

“Racism is alive, but I don’t know how well it is,”

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‘We need a sacred conversation on race’

‘We need a sacred conversation on race’

~UCC News

Writing love on a larger board. That’s what these sacred conversations are all about. Daunting indeed. But we do so in the knowledge that by grace, we have been made, not for futility, but rather little less than God, crowned with glory and honor, and given responsibility for the serving, the stewarding of all the works of God’s hands…Friends, we need a conversation on race. A sacred conversation. We need to write love on a larger board.

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‘Curious’ shirt choice

‘Curious’ shirt choice

~The Boston Herald

The Curious George cartoon character is getting dragged into the presidential race again in an ugly way…

 

Racism: An Unbiased Entity Alive and Well In America

~Digital Journal

As the political race narrows and the fight for the candidacy becomes more like a verbal MMA cage-fight, racism and discrimination are beginning to surface more often. But in America, it isn’t just a white thing. Racism itself is an unbiased entity.

 

The Deeper Racism in Iowa: Beneath the White Obama Craze

~The Black Agenda Report

“Much of his white support was premised on Obama being a ‘good,’ that is non-threatening, middle-class, academic-friendly, and ‘not-too fiery’ black.”

 

How to be anti-racist in a nut shell

~Fairfield Echo

An outline to help navigating Courageous Conversations about Race…

 

Lutherans Responding to People Affected by Iowa Immigration Raid

~ELCA News Service

Members of St. Paul Lutheran Church, Postville, Iowa, are responding to the needs of people who have been affected by a May 12 federal immigration raid at a Postville meat processing plant.

 

Does illegal immigration lead to more crime?

~St Charles Journal

Some recent studies by pro-immigration groups have indicated that there is no link between crime and undocumented immigrants.

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Thomas speaks to ‘broad set of emotions’ involving Wright controversy

Writing from a trip to South America where he is visiting mission partners in Argentina and Chile, the Rev. John H. Thomas, general minister and president, acknowledges the ’sadness and anger’ that is being experienced across the church and nation over the Jeremiah Wright controversy. 

~UCC News 

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