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Author: Amy Julia Becker

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Read more about the article AJB Recommends: Three Podcast Episodes About Addressing Racism

AJB Recommends: Three Podcast Episodes About Addressing Racism

  • Post published:October 3, 2020
  • Post category:AJB Recommends/Faith/Privilege and Race
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This week, I’ll recommend three podcast episodes about racism that challenged me, brought hope, and brought clarity this week: CHALLENGE The challenge: A podcast about how one public school district…

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Read more about the article White Picket Fences Turns Two {And a Giveaway!}

White Picket Fences Turns Two {And a Giveaway!}

  • Post published:October 2, 2020
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White Picket Fences turns two today! Yes, this book that almost-never-was—not only did it get published, but it has stayed “alive” for two years because wonderful people like you have…

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Read more about the article My Daughter With Down Syndrome Helped Me Understand Racism

My Daughter With Down Syndrome Helped Me Understand Racism

  • Post published:October 1, 2020
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How did disability help me understand racism? I am white, married, educated, and affluent. Our daughter Penny was born into many of these same categories, and yet she was also…

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Three Harms of Privilege

  • Post published:September 30, 2020
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The harm of privilege is exclusion, injustice, and isolation. When I say the word privilege, I’m talking about a set of unearned social advantages given to one individual or group…

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S3 Bonus | What Is Privilege?

  • Post published:September 29, 2020
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What is privilege? What is it not? How does privilege cause harm? In this bonus episode, Amy Julia describes her working definition of privilege, the ways that privilege leads to…

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God Is Always Doing a New Thing

  • Post published:September 28, 2020
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"There is nothing new under the sun." It’s such a depressing line from Ecclesiastes, and it reads as depressingly true right now. Futility of Life I’ve been reading through Ecclesiastes,…

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AJB Recommends: Resource to Learn More About Prison Reform

  • Post published:September 25, 2020
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What do you know about the prisons and prison reform in your local community?  After I interviewed Dominique Gilliard for the podcast, I was struck by the fact that I…

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Blessed Are Those Who Thirst for Justice

  • Post published:September 24, 2020
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“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for justice.” I’ve always heard this verse from Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount translated as “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after…

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Faith Is Trusting in the End of the Story

  • Post published:September 23, 2020
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How do we have faith that a good ending is coming? I know lots of people in pain right now. Some are in physical pain—my friend whose husband needs back…

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S3 E13 | Privilege, Wealth, and the Christ-Shaped Life with Paul Miller

  • Post published:September 22, 2020
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How does the pattern of Jesus’ life reshape privilege, wealth, and community? Paul Miller, author of “J-Curve: Dying and Rising with Jesus in Everyday Life,” talks with Amy Julia about the…

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