I am very glad and excited to share with you the new title and cover of my next book.
Pre-order: amazon.com/Spirit-Our-Pol
Coming January 23, 2024:
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I don’t know how the avocado toast writer got it so wrong because the main millennial expense is cake pops for toddlers.
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When a mother arrived at her doctor’s office for an ultrasound, they diagnosed her baby with a rare pre-birth condition and a 1 percent chance of survival.
A month later, they completed the first successful fetal brain surgery to save the baby's life.
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I just studied the Buffalo Bills’ schedule for the upcoming season and I think if the Bills are really good then they should win a lot of games. However, if the Bills are not so good, it’s possible that they do not win so many games.
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"If non-Christian faiths were kept at an arm’s length in the coronation service, it was not because religious pluralism was ignored; it was because we are finally starting to take it seriously. Other faiths are not exotic variations on the Christian model." An excellent analysis!
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My reflections on the #coronation as an interfaith practitioner blogs.lse.ac.uk/religionglobal
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More calls for a moratorium on Oklahoma’s death penalty.
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So, uh, if last night's townhall ⬆️ your blood pressure, then join us on Substack. Our yearly subscription is just $30 so that it's more accessible to folks wanting to process the news & religion & politics in a way that *does not* raise your BP.
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What a fascinating panel
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Video is up for the excellent "Rethinking Feminism" panel with @ChristineEmba @Louise_m_perry @moveincircles at Harvard last month @AAICambridge (awkward camera angle is righted at 10min).
youtube.com/watch?v=sSFAJD
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*Very* excited for this.
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If you've surveyed the damage done at the intersection of faith and politics and wondered if there is a path forward, I wrote The Spirit of Our Politics for you. I hope you'll pre-order at your local bookstore or wherever you purchase books. amazon.com/Spirit-Our-Pol
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The gun violence we have seen as a nation is at odds with the law and love of God. We must not choose between a political response or a spiritual one. Both our hearts and our politics must respond to the moment.
ccpubliclife.org/journal/on-gun
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This CNN focus group is a pretty good encapsulation of how a lot of voters relate to the media, and feel the media relates to them.
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Very grateful for for refusing to consider the GOP primary settled before it even begins.
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The CNN townhall should be a reminder about the dramatic stakes in the Republican primary, and Republicans themselves have the first responsibility to ensure their party is not represented by this man in another general election.
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The CNN townhall should be a reminder about the dramatic stakes in this election, and we have to do everything possible to re-elect @JoeBiden
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This is the quote I gave to press in the Summer of 2016. "He abuses those who stand in his way, and he shames those who stand with him."
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Trump's vision of the good life
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"Women let you" -- Trump defends his comments about the Access Hollywood tape from his deposition
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Whether Trump is helping or harming his campaign right now should not be our primary concern. What's clear now, as it has been for a very, very long time, is the harm he does to the spirit of this country. "A corrupt heart elicits in an hour all that is bad in us" -F.W. Peterson
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If you've surveyed the damage done at the intersection of faith and politics and wondered if there is a path forward, I wrote The Spirit of Our Politics for you. I hope you'll pre-order at your local bookstore or wherever you purchase books.
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Welcome, Molly Worthen, to the Club of Journalists Who Asked Too Many Questions About Faith and Eventually Found Some Satisfactory Answers
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How does a nationally-renowned journalist known for criticism of Evangelicals and Evangelicalism become a Christian baptized by @JDGreear at @SummitRDU?
Listen to @CollinHansen’s interview with Molly Worthen on #Gospelbound.
thegospelcoalition.org/podcasts/gospe
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Jesus calls us to welcome the stranger. I urge the Government to reconsider much of the Illegal Migration Bill which fails to live up to our history, our moral responsibility and our political & international interests.
My House of Lords speech today: bit.ly/3NXLaK8
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Increasingly, our best writers are getting much closer to the spiritual crisis that is represented and promoted by gun violence. Here's on anxiety, fear and alienation: nytimes.com/2023/05/09/opi Here's on "the overwhelming fear we have come to accept in our… Show more
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Breaking news: Jury in civil trial finds that Trump sexually abused and defamed E. Jean Carroll, awards $5 million in damages. wapo.st/42m6sFC
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My Italian heart just grew three sizes when my 18mo old daughter picked up a piece of cheese and half of a cherry tomato and pushed them together before eating them both
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The gun violence we have seen as a nation is at odds with the law and love of God. We must not choose between a political response or a spiritual one. Both our hearts and our politics must respond to the moment.
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"We aren't telling our young people how to serve. We are just asking them to serve." -
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During National Public Service Week, I'm proud that Maryland is leading to become the first state in the country to offer a service year option for high school graduates.
Maryland will be the state that serves.
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"The availability of guns is tied to, but does not fully answer, why so many in our society are prepared to use guns to kill human beings, made in the image of God."
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Read my monthly newsletter as President and CEO of the Center for Christianity and Public Life.
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The gun violence we have seen as a nation is at odds with the law and love of God. We must not choose between a political response or a spiritual one. Both our hearts and our politics must respond to the moment.
ccpubliclife.org/journal/on-gun
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this is right. It's a major reason to doubt the idea of seeing loneliness through a medical lens in the first place.
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One of the driving arguments behind the mythology of the loneliness epidemic is that it makes people less productive and is bad for the economy. It’s an inhuman argument that conflates loneliness with social isolation—isolation which is caused by how the economy shapes relations twitter.com/surgeon_genera…
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CSLewis to an American correspondent on Elizabeth's coronation:
"You know, over here people did not get that fairytale feeling about the coronation. What impressed most who saw it was the fact that the Queen herself appeared to be quite overwhelmed by the sacramental side of it.
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Right now, we esteem leaders for what they’ve rejected, but at some point we’ll need to choose leaders based on what they have advanced.
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gets at the thing that's bothered me about my own narrow field for many years: intellectual risk & ambition regarding Big Ideas + Big Questions. substack.com/inbox/post/119
I wrote about the foreign policy side just after the start of Russia's war:
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We’ll talk coronation on this weekend’s episode of Wear We Are. What did you think of today’s events?
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.@claralfreitas talked to Joe Gardella about the decision to close his beloved Little Italy restaurant. thebaltimorebanner.com/culture/food-d
I can't be the first person to mistakenly type "Imdb." in an endnote or two instead of "Ibid."
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Russell asks surprising, probing questions. Esau has both range and depth. I don't listen to a ton of interviews, but truly got a lot out of this.
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My goodness this is a wonderful conversation
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It’s hard to explain how much greatness @esaumccaulley delivers in this conversation- on everything from how to overcome hurtful family dynamics to how to pursue racial justice to how to answer stupid questions. Listen and you’ll see what I mean.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/esa
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