Frustrated with COVID-19 restrictions on daily life, a friend said to me, “I just want to know the truth.” Like many people, my exasperated friend, and others I know, are mesmerized and frightened by daily news reports on the number of COVID-19 cases. You can cite all the data you want, such as these; from
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I made the mistake of scrolling through Twitter last night before I went to bed. It was filled with videos and stories from recent days about statue toppling, violence, and individuals taking their anger out on others. Perhaps one of the most disturbing is the clip of a black man beating up a white employee
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Which racial group is most likely to be killed by police in the United States? It’s not African-Americans, it’s Native Americans. Native Americans are less than one percent of the nation’s population but make up about two percent of police killings. Some of them have been horrific. The Great Falls Tribune, a newspaper in Billings,
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In the past four months, a friend has occasionally sent me Bible verses via email, words intended to console me when I was feeling down. Inspired by these gifts, I recently decided to begin reading the Bible for a few minutes every day, hoping for uplift and insight in the midst of our current dark
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On June 18, the portraits of four former Speakers of the House, all connected to the Confederate States of America and the Civil War, were removed from the walls of the Capitol. In the words of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, “There is no room in the hallowed halls of Congress or in any place of
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In college I took a course on debating and argument. Well, to say I took the course may be a stretch; I dropped it after a few days after pushing back against the politics of my classmates and receiving this assertion from my instructor in response: “Institutional racism is a fact whether or not I
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