Colin Harris: Estimates of the consequences of the loss of USAID indicate that between 700,000 and 750,000 lives have been lost. These have mostly been children suffering from malnutrition and preventable and treatable diseases—all a result of Musk’s chainsaw work.

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“In this uncertain moment, Invested Faith is working to stay the course and to keep identifying, resourcing, and networking amazing world changers who continue to keep at the work of caring for neighbors and protecting our communities.” —Rev. Dr. Amy Butler.

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Jason Edwards: Put Wendell Berry and Dolly Parton in a Dollywood golf cart, and I’m quite sure they would’ve had plenty to talk about.

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Jamie Marich: If the word ministry is still a sticking point for you, what might happen if you replaced every use of the word ministry with the word service?

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Grace Ji-Sun Kim: If water is sacred enough to be part of our sacramental life, then we must also treat it as sacred in our daily lives. We cannot treat water as holy only during baptism and then commodify and waste it by Monday morning.

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Donald Williams: Having “ears to hear” describes a posture of spiritual and moral openness.
This ancient admonition is especially relevant now.

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Terry York: How big must a catastrophe be before God steps in to prevent or to tame it? The question crumbled with the towers.

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Michael Chancellor: Misuse of these systems has resulted in wrongful stops, false hits, improper arrests, and personal stalking. The Institute for Justice has documented more than 22 cases of officers misusing surveillance tools for personal reasons.

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Rebecca M. David Hensley: I do not know a world without Dolly Parton in it.

We didn’t worship her in my home, but her voice was an ever-present soundtrack to the best of my childhood memories.

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Wanda Kidd: You can’t grow up in a one-room log cabin with 13 other people without learning to read a room, and I believe it’s what made her so accessible.

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Michael Chancellor: Bullies with bullets and badges (BBBs) walking the streets, stopping or arresting people without cause, don’t make me feel safer, even in our own house of worship.

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Leah Davis: Throughout our sacred stories, whether in the Bible or the ones of those who went before us, women have led the way.

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In episode 4, Rev. Starlette Thomas issues an altar call for those who would set themselves apart from the worldliness of neocolonialism and white-body supremacy and become a permanent site of resistance.

“The Evidence of Things Unseen" is available now: https://ow.ly/4bNp50ZG5W6