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Jim Wallis and Barbara Williams-Skinner There’s a preacher in the house — or at least, in the Senate. “A vote is a kind of prayer — to God.” That’s what Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), Georgia's first Black senator, said in his first floor speech in the Senate chamber. As many know, Warnock is also senior pastor at the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once served. As Warnock made clear, voting rights is not just a political issue. It is also a faith issue — a spiritual test of whether we see in others the image of God, and thus extend the respect and dignity of a fair and free vote. The sacredness of the vote is under attack once again by the Republican Party, whose members have decided that the only way they can win future elections is by making it much harder for some people to vote, specifically targeting voters who are Black, brown, and young, i.e., those most likely to vote against them. Unable to attract diverse new voters by embracing a multiracial and multicultural democracy, the Republican Party has resorted to passing pre-civil rights movement-style voter restriction and suppression laws. And unable to prove the existence of voter fraud in the 2020 election, even in courts run by conservative judges, the party now deceptively buries Jim Crow-type voter obstruction laws under the obvious lie of voter integrity.
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Our Latest Pope Orders Pay Cuts for Cardinals, Clerics to Save Jobs (by Philip Pullella, Reuters) Most lay employees will not be affected by the cuts, according to a Vatican spokesperson. Texas Republicans Pursue New Voting Restrictions (by Alexa Ura, The Texas Tribune) The rollback on voter access comes as Republicans try to maintain power in the state. Lament Is the Appropriate Response to the Reality of Pain (by Soong-Chan Rah) Asian American faith leaders issue a call for solidarity in the wake of anti-Asian hate. The Deadly Consequences of Purity Culture and Hate (by Angela Denker) The Georgia spa shootings were an act of white American Christian terrorism. |
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From the Magazine Practicing Faith as a Black Woman in America (by Rebecca Riley) Yolanda Pierce's book considers the promise of the Black church. |
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