Category: Religion
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ELCA Grand Canyon Synod “Growing Fervent Voices”
Connert Media Endorses Programs that make Change As part of our Growing Generosity Appeal, we present this video on growing future ministries in the Grand Canyon Synod, planting seeds for Lutheran Advocacy Ministry Arizona ($70,000) and Lutheran Engagement and Advocacy in Nevada ($30,000). Learn more at gcsynod.org/generosity/fervent-voices. References: University Lutheran Church, Tempe, Arizona ELCA Grand…
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Mattel Accused of Promoting White Supremacy using White Jesus
“Mattel also sells a more expensive, “deluxe” Fisher Price Nativity, which depicts the Magi as people of color. But rather than introducing diversity, as we hope Mattel intended, it just depicts all of the holy characters as white while only including people of color in smaller supporting roles. That introduces an explicit racial hierarchy that…
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Being a Faith Christian Doesn’t Mean Being Equal to a Right-Winger
When corporations and religious institutions invoke religious freedom as a justification for bigotry and discrimination, we speak up. References: Faithful America
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White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity by Robert P. Jones
Drawing on history, public opinion surveys, and personal experience, Robert P. Jones delivers a provocative examination of the unholy relationship between American Christianity and white supremacy, and issues an urgent call for white Christians to reckon with this legacy for the sake of themselves and the nation. As the nation grapples with demographic changes and…