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Native Americans

Cross > Sword, an Excerpt from “Everyday Activism”

November 15, 2022

Books, Peace & Nonviolence

A few years ago, I read a groundbreaking book called Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict. In this book, two political scientists named Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan loo...

Finding Jesus in Rural America

Carolyn Campbell

January 27, 2022

Church Life, LGBTQ+, Practical Justice

We have to know God is here. Right here.

Why We Do Not Celebrate Columbus Day

Shane Claiborne

October 12, 2020

Books, Creation & Environment, General

Christopher Columbus may have been a daring adventurer... but he is not someone we want our kids to think of as a hero or role model. A growing number of cities are no longer celebrating Columbus Day, sw...

Truth in the Mirror: White America’s First Encounter with Indians

January 22, 2019

General, Politics, Race

In actuality, I believe truth is the victim of this story.

Converting the Missionaries Among Us: Lessons from Jesus in Luke 4

December 18, 2018

Church Life, Race, Theology

"Problematizing the Indigenous is a Western obsession”

A "Christian" Defense of Genocide? David Barton's Justification of the Devastation of Native Americans

June 3, 2014

JUNE 3, 2014 | BY: CRAIG M. WATTS -- I’d like to believe most Americans, and in particular most Christians in America, find the genocide of Native...

Why I've stopped saying 'We are a nation of immigrants'

Kevin D. Miller

April 15, 2013

General, Immigration & Refugees

BY: KEVIN MILLER -- “We are, after all, a nation of immigrants.” It’s a line I’ve used as almost a stock answer to individuals putting down...