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Teacher in a Strange Land: Who ARE These People?

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Teacher in a Strange Land: Who ARE These People? Teacher in a Strange Land: Who ARE These People? For most of my adult life (other than a brief but wonderful stint in the People’s Republic of Ann Arbor), I’ve been the proverbial blue dot on a red background. Although I am out there as a Democrat (on the executive board of the county party, and Democratic candidate for office), I …

The Best Education Blog 536 2025-02-22

Trump renamed the Gulf of Mexico. Pro-Israel Christian groups hope the West Bank is next.

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Trump renamed the Gulf of Mexico. Pro-Israel Christian groups hope the West Bank is next. (RNS) — Pro-Israel evangelicals and some members of Congress want to use the biblical names Judea and Samaria for what is now known as the West Bank. The post Trump renamed the Gulf of Mexico. Pro-Israel Christian groups hope the West Bank is next. appeared first on RNS.

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Israeli Jews shaken by presumed deaths of Bibas family, look to properly honor the dead

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Israeli Jews shaken by presumed deaths of Bibas family, look to properly honor the dead (RNS) — Official identification is pending, but the bodies of three Bibas family members were to be released Thursday (Feb. 20) as part of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire agreement.  The post Israeli Jews shaken by presumed deaths of Bibas family, look to properly honor the dead appeared first on RNS.

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Sarah Lund provokes readers to see the neurodiversity in God and Scripture

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Sarah Lund provokes readers to see the neurodiversity in God and Scripture (RNS) — ‘These different ways of thinking can bring in a new perspective about our relationship to God, to the sacred text, to our sacraments and to baptism and Communion,’ the neurodivergent minister said. The post Sarah Lund provokes readers to see the neurodiversity in God and Scripture appeared first on RNS.

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Texas ACNA congregation becomes second to join Episcopal Church

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Texas ACNA congregation becomes second to join Episcopal Church (RNS) — Resurrection South Austin’s rector, Shawn McCain Tirres, said his congregants ‘wanted rootedness and wanted to feel connected to something ancient and global’ in joining the long-established form of American Anglicanism. The post Texas ACNA congregation becomes second to join Episcopal Church appeared first on RNS.

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