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Found this typed-up post in one of my Evernote collections, can't remember if I posted it or not. But if I did, it was last year, or possibly the year before?
ETA: might be as far back as 2019-2020!
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I got many of these from Sarah Bessey's January Field Notes - a subscriber centric newsletter for a Canadian Christian (author of Jesus Feminist) whose December and January editions are available to non-subscribers.
New York Times: to take on the religious right, you're going to need a religious left
Unfortunately I can't read this because I've run out of free NYT articles and I'm outta cash. But I should have them next month. Maybe.
Buzzfeed:
Jubilee Baptist church on debt, forgiveness, and socialism: That’s one of several straightforward ideas at the heart of Jubilee, a church guided by the overarching premise that if God does, indeed, care about our daily lives, then he also cares about the ways that we currently suffer in them. And the way so many of us suffer has to do with money, and debt, and all sorts of intersecting forms of oppression. To ignore these things is to abdicate the church’s role in society — and cede its place in daily life.
One of the things that this church takes seriously is debt repayment without necessitating gratitude. At the time of the article's writing, they were helping out a 37 year old woman who was trying to caretake several kids by paying her rent and giving her $400/mth for groceries without requiring her to owe them anything. She doesn't have to attend, send her kids there, tell them her story or her kids' stories.
Oh yeah, and as per usual, don't read the comments...
Medium:
my semester with the snowflakes: A fifty-two year old veteran walks into an ivy-league university. But it's no joke, just the start of some beautiful friendships...
How To Be A Better White Person: and you don't have to talk to even one black person to do it!
Five Corrupt Pillars of Climate Change
The Guardian:
Climate breakdown increases violence against women.
I'm sitting on a bus going to Hornsby station. And there's a couple in front of me where the guy takes up three fifths of the chair and his wife may be 2/5 at least the size. However he is actually taking up three quarters of the chair which leads her bare quarter to sit on. The thing that annoys me about this isn't he hasn't moved over, and he was the one who in the first place told her to come over here she was sitting in another chair entirely to herself quite comfortable. He signalled that she should come over and sit next to him. So she went. The kid is sitting in another chair, about 5 years old intelligent enough. But he keeps leaning into her space and he's taking up at least three quarters of the chair. She's looking straight ahead, I think he's giving instructions on how to use the bus stop button...
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And our politics: everyone agrees it's terrible, but whose fault is it that it's terrible? That's something else. And Murdoch and his media are busy selling the narrative that it's the environmentalists who are responsible for this because there was a lot of fuel on the ground and the environmentalists won't let it be burned because destroying habitats is bad. However, according to the RFS is there because the usual season in which they would safely burn the fuel before it got to crazy temperatures and high winds has been slowly growing smaller and smaller, and the opportunities they have had were missed for a variety of reasons - not least of which was their own caution since previous fuel-burns have sometimes resulted in fires getting out of control and RFS volunteers losing their lives.
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Contract document finally came through and has been signed. Whew. Was starting to worry!
ETA: might be as far back as 2019-2020!
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I got many of these from Sarah Bessey's January Field Notes - a subscriber centric newsletter for a Canadian Christian (author of Jesus Feminist) whose December and January editions are available to non-subscribers.
New York Times: to take on the religious right, you're going to need a religious left
Unfortunately I can't read this because I've run out of free NYT articles and I'm outta cash. But I should have them next month. Maybe.
Buzzfeed:
Jubilee Baptist church on debt, forgiveness, and socialism: That’s one of several straightforward ideas at the heart of Jubilee, a church guided by the overarching premise that if God does, indeed, care about our daily lives, then he also cares about the ways that we currently suffer in them. And the way so many of us suffer has to do with money, and debt, and all sorts of intersecting forms of oppression. To ignore these things is to abdicate the church’s role in society — and cede its place in daily life.
One of the things that this church takes seriously is debt repayment without necessitating gratitude. At the time of the article's writing, they were helping out a 37 year old woman who was trying to caretake several kids by paying her rent and giving her $400/mth for groceries without requiring her to owe them anything. She doesn't have to attend, send her kids there, tell them her story or her kids' stories.
"We want to be respectful of her story and what we do with the Jubilee Fund in a way that’s not exploitative. Capitalism put her in a bind, and as a church we need to do what we can."
Oh yeah, and as per usual, don't read the comments...
Medium:
my semester with the snowflakes: A fifty-two year old veteran walks into an ivy-league university. But it's no joke, just the start of some beautiful friendships...
How To Be A Better White Person: and you don't have to talk to even one black person to do it!
Five Corrupt Pillars of Climate Change
The Guardian:
Climate breakdown increases violence against women.
I'm sitting on a bus going to Hornsby station. And there's a couple in front of me where the guy takes up three fifths of the chair and his wife may be 2/5 at least the size. However he is actually taking up three quarters of the chair which leads her bare quarter to sit on. The thing that annoys me about this isn't he hasn't moved over, and he was the one who in the first place told her to come over here she was sitting in another chair entirely to herself quite comfortable. He signalled that she should come over and sit next to him. So she went. The kid is sitting in another chair, about 5 years old intelligent enough. But he keeps leaning into her space and he's taking up at least three quarters of the chair. She's looking straight ahead, I think he's giving instructions on how to use the bus stop button...
--
And our politics: everyone agrees it's terrible, but whose fault is it that it's terrible? That's something else. And Murdoch and his media are busy selling the narrative that it's the environmentalists who are responsible for this because there was a lot of fuel on the ground and the environmentalists won't let it be burned because destroying habitats is bad. However, according to the RFS is there because the usual season in which they would safely burn the fuel before it got to crazy temperatures and high winds has been slowly growing smaller and smaller, and the opportunities they have had were missed for a variety of reasons - not least of which was their own caution since previous fuel-burns have sometimes resulted in fires getting out of control and RFS volunteers losing their lives.
--
Contract document finally came through and has been signed. Whew. Was starting to worry!
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