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** Tackling hard topics
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I’ve shared with you a little about some difficulties with a loved one’s health. Those difficulties came to the fore this weekend when we had a birthday party for someone who is being placed into hospice. There were plenty of kids at the party from the circle of our friends and family, and a few days later I am still wondering what they understood or felt about that strange celebration of life under the shadow of death.
I’m not a parent, so at this point I don’t have to worry about when and how to navigate those difficult conversations with children. But I’m grateful that the Century (written for an adult audience) addresses painful and challenging questions and themes head-on.
One recent piece demystifies the contentious debates about critical race theory ([link removed]) . Another offers a personal and philosophical reflection on abortion ([link removed]) . Two new book reviews cover, respectively, US racism ([link removed]) and Jewish-Christian relations ([link removed]) , and one feature considers our planet’s response ([link removed]) to global warming.
Our featured video today is a chat I had with historian Andrew Finstuen ([link removed]) (not pictured below, so click that link!) about the anticommunism and legacy of Billy Graham’s European tours.
Email me: Which public issue do you find the most difficult to talk about?
Jon Mathieu
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This week’s top articles:
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** Critical race theory can help us serve others ([link removed])
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“The political conversation around CRT has encouraged not care but rather its opposite: sweeping generalizations that either mischaracterize CRT or reject its ends outright.”
by Jonathan Tran
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** The right to life is an essential human right ([link removed])
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“When I see photos of my mother as a pregnant young woman, my heart is filled with gratitude and an awareness of the debt I owe her. What I don’t feel is entitlement. She did not owe me or anyone else the suffering that it took to bring us into the world.”
by Allyson McKinney Timm
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** Following the long shadow of America’s original sin ([link removed])
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“Theologian Alison Benders embarks on a self-described color-line pilgrimage to trace the sin of racism through pivotal moments in our country’s history.”
A review by Cara Meredith
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** Living by the Word for September 11 (Ordinary 24C) ([link removed])
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Sometimes in ministry you lose precious things.
by Charisse R. Tucker
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** Reconciliation or supersessionism? ([link removed])
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“While Christians want to claim quick friendship with Jewish counterparts, the latter can’t help but sense identity politics and virtue signaling in the air.”
Jon M. Sweeney reviews Karma Ben-Johanan
** Earth’s self-care ([link removed])
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“Revenge is far too anthropocentric for my understanding of Earth’s agency. But the cloud-blessed blue-and-green-marbled Earth in all her glory is trying her best to bring the planet back to homeostasis.”
by Katharine M. Preston
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