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.
( ramble; I don't even know how old )
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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.
( ramble; I don't even know how old )
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Contract document finally came through and has been signed. Whew. Was starting to worry!
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