In Perversion of Justice the Miami Herald reporter Julie K Brown writes about Starr’s role in securing the secret 2008 sweetheart deal that granted Epstein effective immunity from federal prosecution. The author, who is credited with blowing open the cover-up, calls Starr a “fixer” who “used his political connections in the White House to get the Justice Department to…
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Read More The Most Complicated Word in English is Only Three Letters LongBY JOSIAH R. DANIELS For our friends who may not be people of color or LGBTQ Race: A Theological Account. By J. Kameron Carter (Oxford University Press, 2008). “Race: A Theological Account is an initial installment in filling this significant lacuna in modern knowledge about how the discourse of theology aided and abetted the process by which ‘man’…
Read More SIX BOOKS THAT HELPED ME THINK CRITICALLY ABOUT RACE AND THEOLOGYFEB 26, 2021 Sara Berg, Senior News Writer, AMA The rapid development of COVID-19 vaccines in under a year has raised concerns, which can lead to vaccine hesitancy. But AMA member Peter Hotez, MD, PhD, reassures that while the COVID-19 pandemic has spurred global cooperation for vaccine research and distribution, it has been a decade in the…
Read More How a decade of coronavirus research paved way for COVID-19 vaccinesBY PETER LAARMAN JULY 20, 2021 Robert P. Jones is CEO and founder of the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) and the author of two books, including last year’s much-discussed White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in Christian America, which just came out in paperback. PRRI recently released a huge new survey that made headlines and drew…
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