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Medicine Forward
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There’s a whole movement of Christian health clinics around the country, sort of a medical underground: https://www.cchf.org/. Hallelujah for missional medicine!
Shane Claiborne • The Irresistible Revolution, Updated and Expanded: Living as an Ordinary Radical
policies.
Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
When he was thirty-two years old, Thomy Lafon was listed in the 1842 city directory as a merchant. His mother was born a free woman in Haiti and had arrived with other migrants post-revolution. Lafon grew wealthy through real estate. The Holy Family nursing home was the result of one of many of his charitable donations made in service of Black peop
... See moreImani Perry • South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
The three political lies: 1.From Hobbes, government is not about the common good or providing basic needs. It is about preserving property. 2.From Hobbes and Locke, economics is a moral-free math. Humanity’s equality need not translate to economic equity. 3.From Smith, justice is retributive—it is about punishing rule-breakers—not about making righ
... See moreMichael O. Emerson • The Religion of Whiteness
However, the commitment to protection, civil rights, and justice for LGBTQ people should be universal among Christians.
Jim Wallis • Christ in Crisis
A first-trimester abortion at the Women’s Center costs $445. Because Medicaid can’t be used to cover the procedure except in cases of rape, incest, or life endangerment of the pregnant person,
Matthew Desmond • Poverty, by America
“Any gospel that does not…speak to the issue of enslavement” and “injustice” and “inequality—any gospel that does not want to go where people are hungry and poverty-stricken and set them free in the name of Jesus Christ—is not the gospel.”