religion
‘Emanuel’ recounts tragic 2015 murders in Charleston and radical Christian forgiveness
October 11, 2019The tragic incident on June 17, 2015, blazed to the top of the news: A 21-year-old white supremacist named Dylan Roof calmly entered the door to Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
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Jewish Americans and Israel/Palestine: Pressures and fissures heading toward 2020
September 30, 2019The idea of a return to Biblical Zion has been perverted into an idolization of land acquisition by any means in Israel, but Jewish Americans don't want to be pressured into complicity with Israel’s deeds.
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San Jose churches and synagogues get set to fight racist mass incarceration
September 23, 2019The workshop was led by Sophia Jackson, a candidate for ordination as a minister who knows the criminal "justice" system inside out—literally. She was incarcerated for eight years.
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Christian Communism: Meet the hosts of ‘The Magnificast’ podcast
August 7, 2019A podcast about the things they didn't teach you in Sunday School.
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Documentary shows Israelis going back to the future in the ancestral fatherland
June 13, 2019There is rich compost feeding this 77-minute story, which could probably be developed into an ongoing TV series involving these complex interrelationships across time, culture and tragedy.
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