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Several years ago, when the issue of sexist language in hymns was still a fresh topic, many people were trying to figure out how to amend traditional hymns. It was not an easy task, to take texts that had been written in a time when excluding people was far more...

A group of high school students in Campbell River, British Columbia, did something incredible. It seems the government was planning on building supportive housing for folks who were formerly homeless, and the planned building was going to be near the school. Many in...

I am racist. I am sexist. I mean those statements from the bottom of my heart, and they bother me. As you get your heads around those, let me say something else from the bottom of my heart that also bothers me: I believe that all white people are racist, and all men...

I love John 3:16–17 (it’s really one thought so it seems a bit strange to cut it in half). I love the message of hope it can bring us in this crazy world. And yet, I know too many people who seem to love rushing to the verses beyond and using them as hammers of...

Someone posted this on the internet – I cannot credit the source because I don’t know it. But thank you… No one is cancelling Dr. Seuss. There are 6 books that his own estate, are ceasing to publish because of overtly racist content. They are using them as a way to...

This time it’s Dr. Seuss. The time before it was Laura Ingalls Wilder. The time before that it was Mark Twain. I’m talking, of course, about challenges to certain books. Or at least the racist parts of certain books. Or parts of books that may have been written in a...