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Jake MeadorChurch
When we misrepresent, ignore, or dismiss alleged assault victims, we do great damage not only to the victim, but to many others as well.
Matthew LoftusHistoryEconomicsCriminal Justice
Dr. Lawrence Brown and his public health students have produced a fascinating map of Baltimore that illustrates historic and contemporary inequities. They’ve also produced a set of ideas that can help remediate these inequities: In a hypersegregated city, segrenomics results in the redlining […]
Guest WriterPoliticsFeaturedChurch
The Catholic argument for a confessional state is a compelling one. Unfortunately, the same premises also support religious coercion.
Matthew LoftusFamilyCulture
This story by Jonathan Parks-Ramage about his encounter with an evangelical church in LA is moving and beautiful: Treat presents a ready-made identity, perfect for those who feel lost. In the months leading up to this service, I spoke with […]
Matthew LoftusFamilyCultureEconomics
Alec MacGillis has been doing stellar work about some of America’s neglected places, and this piece about a town in Ohio grappling with the imminent closure of a coal-fired power plant is no different: Lee Anderson, director of governmental affairs […]
Matthew LoftusEducation
Rachel Cohen reports on an intriguing idea to combat educational inequalities: Many of the white parents’ fears were prejudice, plain and simple. But Scott-Railton knew that the parents were right about one thing: Integrating the school could mean that the […]
Guest WriterEconomics and Business
Ben Bush argues that Christian & Marxist critiques of the market economy's effect on community break down because we do not actually have a market economy.
Matthew Loftus
I’ve enjoyed listening to Nick Flora’s latest EP, Conversation Hearts, and this song about falling in love in particular: Conversation Hearts by Nick FloraNick talked on the Future Conversation podcast about trying to write songs on this EP about the more-neglected […]
Guest WriterFamilyFeatured
The British Empire spent centuries trying to destroy Irish lives. Last week the Irish chose to do to themselves what the British could not.
Matthew LoftusCriminal JusticeHealth & Medicine
Baynard Woods tells the story of a Baltimore police officer struggling with mental illness very well here: In a city like Baltimore, where a large number of citizens are suffering from severe and repeated trauma, often at levels higher than […]
Miles SmithFeaturedCurrent Politics
Even slave-holding southern Protestants recognized that breaking up families was a great evil. What does it say about evangelicals today that we do not?
Matthew LoftusFamilyCulture
Our family lived down the road from Shelvis and Nancy Smith-Mather when I worked in South Sudan, and we were enormously blessed to be their neighbors and friends. They, like us, have had to relocate and are now doing peacebuilding […]