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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…

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.

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...

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.

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.

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

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.

ALL THREE POINTS ‼️ #SportingKC

Thank you for everything you gave our Club and city 💙 Congrats, Tim! #SportingKC

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.

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!

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.

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.

WTH. Missouri, we need to do better.

‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson

‘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 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

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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.

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.

Kansas City! The games may not always be fun, but we seem to find a way. #chiefs

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...

And I wonder also if it would help to be in conversation with each other as we figure out what to do

“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.