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While mentoring and training were among the factors that helped build resilience among women ministers, a new study also cited self-care and spiritual disciplines.
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Women ministers resist misogyny with mentors, training, resilience, study finds
(RNS) — The report, funded by the Louisville Institute, found that the kinds of discrimination women ministers face include gender bias, limited opportunities for leadership and adverse expectations…
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September 4, 2025 at 1:01 PM
While mentoring and training were among the factors that helped build resilience among women ministers, a new study also cited self-care and spiritual disciplines.
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If you want to put back statues and memorials and names of Confederate traitors while tearing down museum exhibitions on slavery because they don't show the greatness of the nation... the nation whose history you're celebrating is whiteness. The kind of nationalist you are is a white nationalist.
August 19, 2025 at 9:50 PM
If you want to put back statues and memorials and names of Confederate traitors while tearing down museum exhibitions on slavery because they don't show the greatness of the nation... the nation whose history you're celebrating is whiteness. The kind of nationalist you are is a white nationalist.
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A pair of U.K. scholars discovered the mislabeled document in Harvard Law School's digital archives. The university bought it for just $27.50 in 1946. It turned out to be an authentic copy dating to 1300.
Harvard learned it has an authentic Magna Carta. In 1946, it paid less than $28 for it
A pair of U.K. scholars discovered the mislabled document in Harvard Law School's digital archives. The university bought it for just $27.50 in 1946. It turned out to be an authentic copy dating to 1...
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May 15, 2025 at 6:13 PM
A pair of U.K. scholars discovered the mislabeled document in Harvard Law School's digital archives. The university bought it for just $27.50 in 1946. It turned out to be an authentic copy dating to 1300.
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OPINION: If Christianity in America becomes simply another tool of political mobilization, it will hollow itself out from within.
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The emperor's gospel: Donald Trump and the power of Christianity
(RNS) — History reminds us that when Christianity is captured by empire, it may flourish in power but withers in spirit.
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May 5, 2025 at 11:01 AM
OPINION: If Christianity in America becomes simply another tool of political mobilization, it will hollow itself out from within.
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Trump Revokes PBS Funding After Antique Grandfather Clock Receives Meager Appraisal
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May 2, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Trump Revokes PBS Funding After Antique Grandfather Clock Receives Meager Appraisal
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This is how I know that I’m Methodist - I read politics as potluck.
OPINION: Each cardinal looks for three main things when selecting a new pope.
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Before the conclave, cardinals will talk and politick
(RNS) — Although overtly campaigning to be pope is discouraged and would be counterproductive, the cardinals do a lot of politicking in private prior to the conclave. pope-death-conclave
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April 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM
This is how I know that I’m Methodist - I read politics as potluck.
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Thank you for everything you gave our Club and city 💙 Congrats, Tim! #SportingKC
April 6, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Thank you for everything you gave our Club and city 💙 Congrats, Tim! #SportingKC
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Apparently ICE is detaining a Turkish Fulbright PhD scholar from my local university Tufts and terminating her immigration authorization BECAUSE SHE WROTE AN OP-ED IN THE STUDENT PAPER THAT THE TRUMP REGIME DOESN'T LIKE. We're deporting people now for writing editorials. Welcome to the police state!
Tufts University international graduate student detained by federal agents
Tufts said it was told the student's visa status had been terminated, and the university is now working to confirm that information.
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March 26, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Apparently ICE is detaining a Turkish Fulbright PhD scholar from my local university Tufts and terminating her immigration authorization BECAUSE SHE WROTE AN OP-ED IN THE STUDENT PAPER THAT THE TRUMP REGIME DOESN'T LIKE. We're deporting people now for writing editorials. Welcome to the police state!
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When scholars of authoritarianism and fascism leave U.S. universities because of the deteriorating political situation here, we should really worry.
March 26, 2025 at 12:50 AM
When scholars of authoritarianism and fascism leave U.S. universities because of the deteriorating political situation here, we should really worry.
Our first #sportingkc match in a snow globe, and the first time in club history to be down 3 and come back for a result. And the first point of the season.
Firsts all around.
Firsts all around.
March 16, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Our first #sportingkc match in a snow globe, and the first time in club history to be down 3 and come back for a result. And the first point of the season.
Firsts all around.
Firsts all around.
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In 1942, the American President opposed censorship because books were weapons in the fight against tyranny.
March 10, 2025 at 10:42 AM
In 1942, the American President opposed censorship because books were weapons in the fight against tyranny.
I’ve read so many of Martin Marty’s books that it feels as if I know him. His framework of crisis moments has shaped my dissertation, and I am grateful for his ongoing contribution to the world of theology and academia. Prayers for all who knew him, and were blessed to learn from him.
February 27, 2025 at 2:43 AM
I’ve read so many of Martin Marty’s books that it feels as if I know him. His framework of crisis moments has shaped my dissertation, and I am grateful for his ongoing contribution to the world of theology and academia. Prayers for all who knew him, and were blessed to learn from him.
WTH. Missouri, we need to do better.
Missouri's AG Andrew Bailey is suing Starbucks, arguing that its workforce is too "female" and "non-white" and as a result Missouri consumers “pay higher prices and wait longer for goods and services" because its workforce is "less qualified"
This is a brazenly racist and sexist lawsuit.
This is a brazenly racist and sexist lawsuit.
February 15, 2025 at 2:52 PM
WTH. Missouri, we need to do better.
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‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson
February 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM
‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson
The Public Theology Project hosted a great conversation last night on ways that we can resist injustice.
I wanted to add to that convo. There is compelling research on how creating something and humor can challenge power structures and help us move out of places of fear.
The arts as resistance!
I wanted to add to that convo. There is compelling research on how creating something and humor can challenge power structures and help us move out of places of fear.
The arts as resistance!
February 12, 2025 at 3:41 PM
The Public Theology Project hosted a great conversation last night on ways that we can resist injustice.
I wanted to add to that convo. There is compelling research on how creating something and humor can challenge power structures and help us move out of places of fear.
The arts as resistance!
I wanted to add to that convo. There is compelling research on how creating something and humor can challenge power structures and help us move out of places of fear.
The arts as resistance!
I know I’m still building connections here, but here are a few opportunities to be in conversation with one another around public theology/what to do.
February 3, 2025 at 11:55 PM
I know I’m still building connections here, but here are a few opportunities to be in conversation with one another around public theology/what to do.
Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff. - Sojourner Truth
February 1, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff. - Sojourner Truth
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#UMC partners present: “Solidarity with the Sojourner: Understanding U.S. Immigration and Our Call to Respond." 7pm ET | 4pm PT on Monday, Feb. 10. Registration required: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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January 31, 2025 at 4:43 PM
#UMC partners present: “Solidarity with the Sojourner: Understanding U.S. Immigration and Our Call to Respond." 7pm ET | 4pm PT on Monday, Feb. 10. Registration required: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Monday's ceremony in Poland is regarded as the likely last major observance of Auschwitz's liberation that any notable number of survivors will be able to attend, due to their advanced ages.
Auschwitz survivors mark Holocaust Remembrance Day 80 years after liberation
Monday's ceremony in Poland is regarded as the likely last major observance of Auschwitz's liberation that any notable number of survivors will be able to attend, due to their advanced ages.
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January 27, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Monday's ceremony in Poland is regarded as the likely last major observance of Auschwitz's liberation that any notable number of survivors will be able to attend, due to their advanced ages.
May it be so.
For centuries, houses of worship have served as havens for people needing refuge — and, in recent decades, sanctuary from the U.S. government. www.npr.org/2025/01/26/n...
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January 26, 2025 at 3:53 PM
May it be so.
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For centuries, houses of worship have served as havens for people needing refuge — and, in recent decades, sanctuary from the U.S. government. www.npr.org/2025/01/26/n...
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January 26, 2025 at 2:35 PM
For centuries, houses of worship have served as havens for people needing refuge — and, in recent decades, sanctuary from the U.S. government. www.npr.org/2025/01/26/n...
“Rarely do we find men [people] who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.”
~Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
I’ve been reflecting on this quote a lot today.
~Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
I’ve been reflecting on this quote a lot today.
January 21, 2025 at 1:59 AM
“Rarely do we find men [people] who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.”
~Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
I’ve been reflecting on this quote a lot today.
~Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
I’ve been reflecting on this quote a lot today.