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** Searching for embodied truth
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Inspired by an excellent article we published ([link removed]) last year and some of your emails (thanks Carla!), I added two volumes of James Baldwin’s collected works to my Christmas list and received them. So for me, 2023 is shaping up to be the Year of Baldwin. I was reading one of his essays while on the train this morning and came across this zinger: Americans “have a very deep-seated distrust of real intellectual effort (probably because we suspect that it will destroy, as I hope it does, that myth of America to which we cling so desperately).”
The Century engages in its share of myth-busting intellectual work. The latest episode of In Search Of ([link removed]) is all about questioning our nation’s preferred histories. A new article from Michael Fick contends with the Christian myth ([link removed]) of supersessionism that would allow for co-opting Jewish rituals. Our most recent editorial calls faith leaders to rally against ([link removed]) false claims about US capital punishment. Plus more great content below.
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Jon Mathieu
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This week’s top new pieces:
** Learning from the Passover Seder without co-opting it ([link removed])
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“In some Christian circles, honoring Jesus’ Jewish identity has manifested in a desire to connect to Passover by holding a Seder meal. While usually well intentioned, this practice is problematic for multiple reasons.”
by Michael Fick
** More than 100 faith leaders are trying to prevent Andre Thomas’s execution ([link removed])
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Imagine if they were to pour their energy into abolishing the death penalty in Texas.
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** In Search of Truth: American History with Peter Choi ([link removed])
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Senior editor Amy Frykholm talks with historian Peter Choi about race, myths, tearing down monuments, and teaching history.
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** In the Lectionary for March 12 (Lent 3A) ([link removed])
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Water dominated the imaginations of our ancestors in faith, whose stories often called for either a canteen or galoshes.
by Lisa M. Wolfe
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** [Video] Alejandra Oliva on revision in writing and marriage ([link removed])
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Jon chats with Voices columnist Alejandra Oliva about the role of revision in both writing and marriage. As Kiese Laymon has written—love is revision and revision is love.
** Stronger than all evil things ([link removed])
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“At some point she forgave God. It did not occur to her to remember when.”
by E. Carson Brisson
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