Elizabeth E Evans

Speaking To The Dead: Why Americans Consult Mediums Interest in communicating with the dead has continued to thread itself through contemporary American life. For a medium in Pennsylvania, communicating with loved ones helps bring her clients comfort.

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Religious trauma is real Conversations with experts and survivors about healing from church-induced trauma are on the rise.

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A growing landscape of religious trauma The conversation around abuse in religious contexts is intense, varied, and getting...

What's up with all the new books and social media buzz about trauma and religion? I spoke to some experts to find out. www.christiancentury.org/features/gro...

Pro-Trump group wages campaign to purge “subversive” federal workers Federal employees faced a barrage of intimidation and harassment after a group linked to the Trump administration posted their personal information on online “watchlists” denouncing them as liberals. Some have been fired. Two have moved abroad, fearing for their safety.

Really important reporting...why journalism matters.

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Watching CNN's moving reporting on Israeli lives lost before the actual ceasefire, and wishing we had similar reporting from Tehran. Every life is precious.

‘There Is Grief In Good Things’: Q&A With Writer And Minister Jeff Chu Roughly two-thirds of the way through his new book, “Good Soil: the Education of an Accidental Farmhand,” Jeff Chu, then a student at Princeton Theological Seminary and a worker at the school “Farmina...

An interview with the thoughtful, multitalented pastor and writer Jeff Chu.
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Has there ever been a time when violence has solved a political or cultural problem? Yet it seems to be the default setting for so many.

Special Report: Amid Decline, Clergy Reimagine A Future Through Connection Your view of the health of American Christian congregations and of their clergy may very much depends on the angle taken: Up from the orchestra or looking down from the balcony. One thing seems eviden...

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‘Death Is A Part Of Living’: Q&A With Pastor Fran Tilton Shelton The Rev. Dr. Fran Tilton Shelton’s ministry as a Presbyterian (PCUSA) pastor has always been focused on pastoral care and grieving — so much so that her late husband Bob humorously called her “Funeral...

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Philadelphia plans upgrades to reduce “forever chemicals” in drinking water by Chris Shaddock Philadelphia’s water agency, for now, is moving ahead with plans to reduce levels of toxic “forever” chemicals in drinking water as the fates of national and state regulations on the...

NEW: Philly is moving forward with infrastructure upgrades to remove "forever chemicals" from drinking water, even amid uncertainty of whether Trump's EPA will gut the Biden administration's PFAS standards

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Dealing With Grief: Interview With Sister Sarah Hennessey Grief can take many forms — the echo of a loved one’s laugh, a favorite saying or even a silly joke. It’s a belonging on a living room table, clothes you can’t quite bring yourself to donate or a...

Grief is a great equalizer, but everyone experiences it differently.

My series of interviews on loss for Religion Unplugged begins with Sr. Sarah Hennessy. She is a spiritual director who has also lost many friends and mentors in her community.

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Spiritual adviser to man executed by firing squad: 'We're more than the worst thing we've done.' (RNS) — When 67-year-old Brad Sigmon was put to death on March 7 in South Carolina for the murder of his then-girlfriend’s parents, it was the first time in 15 years that an execution in the United St...

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'We're more than the worst thing we've done', says spiritual adviser to man executed by firing squad (RNS) — For United Methodist minister Hillary Taylor, there's a reward in introducing outsiders to someone who is kind and compassionate — 'telling a story that maybe hasn’t been told before.'

Prisoner Brad Sigmon was executed by a firing squad on March 7 in South Carolina. If you thought you knew his whole story, says the Rev. Hillary Taylor, his spiritual advisor, you are probably wrong.

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Hard to argue with this

@sifill.bsky.social We don't even really know what Khalil thinks, beyond being pro-Palestinian. Apparently that's his "crime." All the "free speech" Republicans of the Biden era have disappeared... like they never existed.

Is it too early today (East Coast time) to start drinking?

"There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable"? That's a swell sentence.

Thank you for the very reasonable words of encouragement. You're right, of course. We have to begin somewhere.

Comparing this era with that one, I do wonder: are a lot of us capable of the kind of focus those participants showed? As we are seeing, moving fast and breaking things is relatively easy: persistence and focus are slogs (which isn't an argument against them).

Sorry not enough of us were paying attention then.

WOW

"Seven western Wisconsin Republican lawmakers did not appear at an event hosted by the Wisconsin Farmers Union in Chippewa Falls Friday as farmers from the area said they were concerned about the effect that President Donald Trump’s first month in office is having on their livelihoods." ⤵️

Something is happening here, what it is ain't exactly clear...

Opinion | Here Are the Digital Clues to What Musk Is Really Up To What will DOGE do with access to personal data on almost all Americans?

Very helpful (as was this commentary www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...)

I am very curious about whether "ordinary" citizens are filing lawsuits to protect their personal information.

It's so incredibly sloppy. Of course, a lot of what Musk has done at Tesla is also sloppy. It's scary how many Americans are fans of disruption for the sake of disruption. Until of course, they come face to face with that disruption themselves.

Curious about why the left has, apparently, allowed the right to hijack the mantle of "free speech"...
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I love the way this writer says we have no idea what Scalia would have thought or how he would have "evolved"...and then goes on to say that they, in fact, do.

I didn't realize until I heard it on NPR this morning that Bove had worked on the January 6th cases.. as part of a team of NY prosecutors.

Acting deputy attorney general Emil Bove assembled DOJ's remaining public corruption prosecutors this morning and gave them an hour to find someone to sign the Eric Adams dismissal.

One of them agreed to do it, to spare the others from potentially being fired.

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People who interact with this administration are being forced (like the official who dropped the case against Adams so his colleagues wouldn't get fired for not doing it) to make "damned if you do or don't" decisions. This is corruption personified.

Federal prosecutor will sign motion to dismiss Adams charges in bid to save colleagues' jobs, sources say A federal prosecutor agreed on Friday to file a motion to dismiss the criminal corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, in a bid to spare other career staff from potentially being fired by the acting deputy attorney general, sources briefed on the matter told Reuters.

Reuters: "A federal prosecutor agreed on Friday to file a motion to dismiss the criminal corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, in a bid to spare other career staff from potentially being fired, sources briefed on the matter told Reuters." www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...