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Charlie Kirk, Empathy, and the Value of Higher Education

Good Faith Media @goodfaithmedia.bsky.social · 1d

Michael Chancellor: Cognitive empathy is the ability to understand another person’s emotions. Affective empathy is one’s emotional attunement with another person’s experience.

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Charlie Kirk’s rejection of empathy highlights a deeper moral crisis in modern conservatism and the Christian call to compassion.

What happens when those accustomed to the privilege of employment start being laid off?

Good Faith Media @goodfaithmedia.bsky.social · 2d

Miguel A. De La Torre: The loss of entry-level jobs is not simply a lost opportunity; it represents the loss of the corporate career ladder previous generations have climbed, wrecking careers before they even begin. #AI

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The Coming AI Havoc

25 Who Inspire | Christopher Mack

Good Faith Media @goodfaithmedia.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you for streaming season 6 of The Raceless Gospel Podcast. All episodes are now available for your listening ears whenever you need a rest from giving energy to white-body supremacy. 😴

Learn more about The Raceless Gospel Podcast: ow.ly/ycBb50X74IJ

Good Faith Media @goodfaithmedia.bsky.social · 3d

"At Vox, I’ve seen Christopher work to restructure who gets a seat at the table and become co-creators alongside our community." —Lilly Ettinger

Christopher Mack is Pastor of Community and Teaching at Vox Veniae in Austin, TX.

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Christopher Mack is one of Good Faith Magazine's "25 Who Inspire."

After the Revolution: What Comes Next?

Good Faith Media @goodfaithmedia.bsky.social · 3d

@marksandlin.bsky.social: Jesus sought out the people society threw away. He challenged corrupt power. He painted a picture of God’s dream for the world—where justice mattered, peace was more than silence and love sat at the center of it all.

That dream isn’t gone.

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Progressive Christianity doesn’t show up to hand out a checklist of beliefs or shame people for having questions. That’s not how Jesus taught, and it’s not how we live.

Is There a Genocide Against Christians in Nigeria?

Good Faith Media @goodfaithmedia.bsky.social · 3d

Craig Nash: A video claiming to show an Islamic group attacking and killing Christians on a Muslim holy day began to make the rounds on X. The story has taken on legs and is appearing as stories raising the alarm about a genocide of Nigerian Christians.

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It’s hard to ignore the suspicion that the social media activity over religious-based violence in Nigeria is connected to the conflict in another region defined by colonial aggression—Gaza.

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25 Who Inspire | Brad Onishi

Good Faith Media @goodfaithmedia.bsky.social · 4d

"After serving at an evangelical megachurch in Southern California and questioning the militarization of the Christian faith after 9/11, Onishi began the process of deconstruction."

@bradleyonishi.bsky.social is co-host of the Straight White American Jesus Podcast.

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Brad Onishi is one of Good Faith Magazine's "25 Who Inspire."

Keep on Dreaming: A Remedy for ‘Black Fatigue’

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Good Faith Media @goodfaithmedia.bsky.social · 4d

Starlette Thomas: “Black fatigue,” a term coined by Mary-Frances Winters, is used to describe the emotional, physical, and spiritual toll centuries of systemic racism take on African Americans, leading to exhaustion, stress, and chronic health issues.

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More than halfway through the first year of Donald Trump’s second term as president of the United States and I am wishing African Americans the sweetest of dreams. In fact, I hope they fluff their pil...

October Baseball: Exactly What I Need Right Now

Good Faith Media @goodfaithmedia.bsky.social · 7d

Mitch Randall: Baseball transcends all the world has to offer, helping me overcome a bad day or encouraging me with the successes of life. Baseball is the constant within my life that I need when the world goes dark. ⚾ #MLBPlayoffs

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Baseball transcends all the world has to offer, helping me overcome a bad day or encouraging me with the successes of life.

Good Faith Media @goodfaithmedia.bsky.social · 7d

On the latest episode of Good Faith Weekly, Mitch & Missy chat with @revdrjacquilewis.bsky.social about her upcoming Freedom Rising Conference at Middle Church from October 31 to Nov. 2.

Dr. Lewis is the Senior Minister at @middlechurch.bsky.social in NYC.

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Planting Seeds or Nailing Down Stakes: What Happened to the Missional Church?

Good Faith Media @goodfaithmedia.bsky.social · 8d

Sean Palmer: In the late 90s, the air was thick with talk of becoming “missional.”

Even then, I worried that such conversations were like morning mist—beautiful while they lasted, but destined to fade like other movements that had come before it.

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The early church grew not from the seats of power but from the margins, not through political control but through the strange magnetism of sacrificial love.

Why We Need a Feast of Creation Now More Than Ever

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gracejisunkim.bsky.social @gracejisunkim.bsky.social · 8d

"The Season of Creation calls us back to our common identity. Before we were Catholic, Protestant or Orthodox, we were—and still are—God’s children, called to be stewards of creation."

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Our liturgies matter. They shape what we believe and how we live out God’s word. If we want the ecumenical church to take climate justice seriously, then we must pray it, preach it, sing it and celebr...

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Good Faith Media @goodfaithmedia.bsky.social · 9d

Good afternoon Advocates! Check your email for the October newsletter☀️📬

This month, we provide an exclusive look into an upcoming podcast project with a special video message from Cliff Vaughn, a letter from the CEO, and the bookstore discount code.

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Why I Still Believe People Can Change

Good Faith Media @goodfaithmedia.bsky.social · 9d

Justin Cox: The word “nationalism” came up with the question, “Why is it wrong to love one’s country?”

Others listened as he described the pride he felt for his country.

“What you’re describing is patriotism, not nationalism,” someone said.

“What’s the difference?” he asked.

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On an ordinary church night filled with idle banter, I witnessed the extraordinary: change.

Never Out of Place: Grace, Grit, and the God Who Kept Calling

Good Faith Media @goodfaithmedia.bsky.social · 10d

Erika Jackson-Essiem: "...I believed I had become what people whispered about—two children, two fathers, no marriages. A statistic.

But I wasn’t a statistic. I was a story. And the systems around me were built to forget stories like mine.

But God did not forget."

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I, who once feared being found out, was now being called forward. Not in spite of my journey, but because of it.

Freeing Speech: Why Who Can Speak and Who Cannot Matters

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Good Faith Media @goodfaithmedia.bsky.social · 10d

Kali Cawthon-Freels: @rickriordan.bsky.social and #MarkOshiro said that now more than ever, we need stories about people who experience the world in beautiful ways.

Stories that center kindness and respect. Stories that show intolerance doesn’t win.

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Good Faith Media @goodfaithmedia.bsky.social · 10d

"Habakkuk might have a silly name, but his view of the world was deadly serious ... He stared straight into the face of death and believed God was not finished with God’s people yet."

Kevin Gardner-Sinclair is pastor of Broadway Baptist Church in Louisville, KY.

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Good Faith Media @goodfaithmedia.bsky.social · 11d

Starlette Thomas: "The free exchange of ideas, including dissent and criticism, is a cornerstone of any democracy. Silencing opposing views is a historical tactic of authoritarians and removes a vital check on power, leaving leaders unaccountable and eroding public trust."

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“It’s a free country.” That’s what we said on the playground as children, usually in defense of our right to say what we want. But America has never been a free country—at least not for everyone.

25 Who Inspire | Bethany Rivera Molinar

Good Faith Media @goodfaithmedia.bsky.social · 11d

"Though she’s had many achievements and accolades, what sets her apart is her unwavering commitment to justice and advocacy in inner-city El Paso and along the border."

Bethany Rivera Molinar is the Executive Director of Ciudad Nueva Community Outreach in El Paso, TX.

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Bethany Rivera Molinar, Executive Director of Ciudad Nueva Community Outreach in El Paso, Texas, is one of GFM's 25 Who Inspire.

Jon Singletary Created a Home for Me at Baylor

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Good Faith Media @goodfaithmedia.bsky.social · 11d

Aurelia Dávila Pratt: "At a place like Baylor, moving the needle forward is never easy. Jon [Singletary] has my deepest respect and admiration for the ways he has made it more open, more generous, and above all, safer for those who needed it most."

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Rev. Aurelia Davila Pratt honors Jon Singletary’s leadership and legacy at Baylor’s Garland School of Social Work.

Resisting Historical Amnesia to Build the Kin-dom of God

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gracejisunkim.bsky.social @gracejisunkim.bsky.social · 11d

Too often, we hear the narrative that white Americans are “self-made,” that their success came only by pulling themselves up by their own bootstraps. This overlooks the structural privileges, land theft and generational advantages...

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The gospel calls us to build not an empire but the kin-dom of God—a community of justice, love and peace.

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Good Faith Media @goodfaithmedia.bsky.social · 14d

On the Good Faith Weekly podcast, Mitch & Missy talk with @bradleyonishi.bsky.social about the cultural and political fallout after the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

In this clip, Onishi breaks down the contrasting messages from Kirk's memorial service.

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It’s Time to Support Independent Media

Good Faith Media @goodfaithmedia.bsky.social · 14d

Mitch Randall: "In recent months, two large media conglomerates, Paramount and Disney, have taught the country a valuable lesson: Americans love free market capitalism more than free speech."

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If giant media conglomerates are allowed to centralize their power and authority, then they will consolidate their messaging and control the flow of information for generations to come.

25 Who Inspire | Emily Smith

Good Faith Media @goodfaithmedia.bsky.social · 15d

"Emily, an expert in global health, taught the ins and outs of 'flattening the curve,' transmission mitigation, and what an mRNA vaccine is."

Dr. Emily Smith is the Assistant Research Professor of Global Health at Duke & author of "The Science of the Good Samaritan."

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Dr. Emily Smith, Assistant Research Professor of Global Health at Duke University, is one of Good Faith Media's "25 Who Inspire."