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Native American Health Center “Native American concepts of difference are informed by the interdependent structure of traditional Native American communities,” the author writes. More

Affirm the possibility of a different kind of world in which oppression is overcome. Creative Commons More

Janice Fried ( janicefried.com ) “As we argued about our differences . . . we clarified two different views of divinity,” the coauthors write. Healing Circle by Janice Fried. More

Alexandra Martinez ( leximartinez.com ) “People have many different ways of using worship to astonish rather than to dull,” the author writes. The first eleven women ordained irregularly in the Episcopal Church astonished churchgoers by laying out the best linens and then pouring the communion More

Three poets’ different uses of identity remind us that what we see is impacted by the windows out of which we look. Hillel Smith More

Steve Schapiro Is the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s best understood as an early manifestation of identity politics or as a different sort of mobilization based on the shattering of social identity? More

Dave Cutler ( davecutlerstudio.com ) How can we build solidarity without erasing difference? Might a coalition against neoliberalism and environmental degradation be a starting place? Illustration by Dave Cutler. More

Library of Congress/John Vachon “I grew up as the child of a white activist in the Civil Rights Movement,” Greenberg writes. “At that time, to sit with people of different races was a radical act in the South.” More

To bring Gandhi into the modern age (given homage here in an internet café in Varanasi, India), we need to learn a rigorous practice of empathic listening and nonviolence so we can navigate conflict and differences creatively. More

Many scholars come to consciousness studies to explore the mysteries of their own interior experience. Compromises between those who bring different motivations and ideologies to the study of human consciousness often force science into an uneasy relationship with religion. More

The misinterpretation of the Gospel of Mark stems from the conflation of two entirely different systems of rules: kosher dietary laws, which forbid Jews from eating foods such as these creamy bacon cupcakes, and purity laws. Carrion (like the putrefying chicken above) is the only food that can More

In the world of biblical Israel, one would go into debt only “if one didn’t have enough food, perhaps because one’s family had to eat next year’s seed grain in order to survive,” Borg writes. Today the situation is much different. How might the Jubilee laws be adapted? Pixabay Public Domain More