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September 17, 2021
Verse of the day
As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.
Genesis 8:22
Voice of the day
My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and gobbled until there was nothing left, and then we died. We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first. (1974)
Prayer of the day
Help us to respect the rights of all people and all species
And help us to willingly share your gifts
Today and always
Fiona Murdoch
Our Latest
Adam Russell Taylor 9-14-2021
People in the United States have deeply conflicting understandings of our nation’s history: Are we a nation that guarantees “liberty and justice for all”? Or are we a nation that will continue to confine this promise to only certain Americans, falling short of realizing this promise for all? When we explore these questions, we start to see that many injustices that show up today have been with us since the nation’s founding.
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Adam Russell Taylor. Original photo by Candace Sanders, illustration by Mitchell Atencio.
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JR. Forasteros 9-15-2021
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Nathan Luis Cartagena 9-16-2021
"Colorful Hands 3 of 3" by Annabelle Wombacher, Jared Mar, Sierra Ratcliff and Benjamin Cahoon via Unsplash.
My first foray into critical race theory was short-lived. I began by picking up Tommy J. Curry’s essay “Will the Real CRT Please Stand Up?” Three pages in I realized I did not know enough about race scholarship or CRT to appreciate his arguments.