1. The Empire Doesn’t Care Who Is President
“The trouble with empires is that so much depends upon their emperors, and the trouble for emperors is how little they matter to their empires.”
2. Christianity 101: Love, Not Deportation
Stephen Mattson challenges Christians to look deep into their theology and see what it says about immigration. He reminds Christians that there may be ideological and political reasons to deportation, but never theological ones.
3. America’s Changing Religious Landscape
In 1976, roughly 81 percent of Americans identified as white and Christian. Today that number is down to only 43 percent.
4. Houston Flooding Always Hits Poor, Non-White Neighborhoods Hardest
“You’re talking about a perfect storm of pollution, environmental racism, and health risks that are probably not going to be measured and assessed until decades later.”
“Trump’s political career began in advocacy of birtherism. But long before that, he had made his worldview clear.”
6. What I’ll Tell My Journalism Students After Charlottesville
Mark Effron makes it clear that there is no substitute for knowledge in journalism – especially when it comes to race in the U.S. He talks about the responsibility of journalists to have depth; to know history and context before anything else.
7. The Nashville Statement Is an Attack on LGBT Christians
“The Nashville Statement’s harm is more than symbolic. The hateful beliefs it endorses have real-life, devastating consequences.”
8. Black and DACAmented in the U.S.
In this audio story, our associate web editor talked to Patrice Lawrence and Mwewa Sumbwe about the intersection of being black and undocumented in the U.S.
9. The Department of Justice Is Overseeing the Resegregation of American Schools
“A major investigation reveals that white parents are leading a secession movement with dire consequences for black children.”
10. Desperate Rohingya Flee Myanmar on Trail of Suffering: ‘It Is All Gone’
“In an open letter to Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi, nearly a dozen of her fellow Nobel Peace Prize laureates labeled last October’s military offensive ‘a human tragedy amounting to ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.’”
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