“Baba, why don’t you talk about your childhood?” - @foreverfocused on leaving behind the shame he felt about childhood poverty so he can share his entire self with his daughter. It’s a short, beautiful read: https://t.co/ApRrY0UXRu
7. Hopefully articles like these teach us to be highly skeptical of the system and its aims so that we might be voices advocating for the actual needs of the children and families that it consistently fails.” – @SyHoekstra. Read more and subscribe here! https://t.co/IZxaP1d51x
1. “One in six in-patient psychiatric beds in America are in facilities run by Universal Health Services (UHS), a for-profit, Fortune 500 company. UHS facilities have faced innumerable lawsuits and scandals regarding a wide range of problems.
6. As I’ve noted on Shake the Dust previously, the Church interacts with the foster care system a ton, often actually running the agencies. https://t.co/IG0xHut9it
…but fair warning, I’d get in a place where you’re comfortable crying before reading.” –@SyHoekstra from our newsletter this week. To read more and sign up for our mailing list, tap here! 5/5 https://t.co/pKT0oGmkEA
“This essay by Palestinian-American author @SarahAziza1 left me reeling. It’s an account of how she and her community experienced the early days of the current fighting in Palestine. 1/ https://t.co/LiElCUljw5
This piece is a breathtaking gift of vulnerability, courage, and brilliant self-reflection in the face of vicious hostility and violence. I hope it spurs us to greater compassion and urgent action toward peace. I really can’t recommend the essay enough, … 4/5
Our weekly newsletter’s out with highlights on Book Bans & Scholastic, the story after Killers of the Flower Moon, the importance of Jesus’ Jewishness, a really powerful meditation on Palestinian grief, and more. Read it here and join our mailing list! https://t.co/pKT0oGmkEA
‘We need leaders who stand firmly against all human suffering and lead us in cries for justice, not vengeance,’ wrote Dr. Fisk. And he couldn’t be more right.” @foreverfocused from our newsletter last week. Read more at https://t.co/loKV5LY2n9
“Editor in Chief of Christianity Today, @drmoore, wrote an article calling for all Christians to have “moral clarity” and side with Israel in its conflict with Hamas. He enmeshed support for Israel with Christian faith, even stating that an attack on Israel…
Many evangelicals are unable to consider let alone criticize Israel’s displacement and oppression of millions of Palestinians over the decades, or its ongoing occupation of their land. Excising this history from reality makes moral clarity much easier.
🚨@Ilhan Omar, asked about her colleague @RitchieTorres, one of the most outspoken, unconditional supporters of Israel’s war, responds: “How many more killings is enough for you? Is it a thousand more? Two thousand more? Three thousand more?”