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"We have failed across the board in this country to help people in our congregations understand what it means to be Christian."
Colleen Swan and the members of the indigenous Iñupiat community who live on Kivalina, climate change isn't a remote abstraction. It's an emergency that's threatening their lives now.
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We discuss the drug-related ballot measures that passed on Election Day and the shift in American drug policy.
A mathematician turns gender into a math problem.
We discuss racism's role in the attack on the Capitol.
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