We bring you interesting stories from around the web. Here’s what caught our eye this week!
JUSTICE
How to Actually Fight for Racial Reconciliation
That’s great news; we need every available hand on deck! But since so many of us have grown up in racially isolated communities, many of us don’t know what racial reconciliation looks like, what it requires of us, or how to work toward it.
From Relevant Magazine
CULTURE
WHEN HOME IMPROVEMENT IS SELF-IMPROVEMENT
A new group of makeover shows is grappling with a timely truth: Needing help doesn’t make you a failure.
From The Atlantic
FAITH
Leaving Jesusland . . . for good
I make no secret, on this blog or in person, of my love for Canada. I grew up just forty miles south of Quebec, visted both Montreal and Quebec City at least twice per year every year through high school, have visited those cites many more times and have come to know and love Toronto as an adult, have a number of good friends as well as followers of this blog from Canada . . . Canada is awesome! So, when I saw this meme proposing the United States of Canada, a new country formed by adding nineteen current US states to Canada, leaving the remaining thirty-one states as the new nation of Jesusland, I knew I had to send it out on Facebook. “This is a seriously great idea,” I remarked in the introduction line. Read Full Article
From Patheos
FAITH
Chiamaka Okoli was a rarity in physics. She challenged norms until her untimely death.
A Black woman, mother, and a devout Catholic, Okoli was a trailblazer in her field before tragedy struck. Read Full Article
From Broadview
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