Our group and then we will get started. 22 ago, there is a switch. Thank you. There is a switch on the mics. In a journal of American History article, john butler challenged historians of modern america to Pay Attention to religion. In particular, he noted religions continuing importance in 20th century american politics deserves sustained attention and analysis. Scholarship in american religious history has proliferated over the past 15 years. In political history, religion has retained a jackinthebox quality, colorful, surprising, anomalous, idiosyncratic, but left on the periphery to pop up occasionally rather than systematically. Today, our roundtable will inress how religion matters american political history and we will do so in three ways. First, i blast each of our panelists to focus on a way in which religion matters, in their own research, how religion plays that they arees working on, but also how centering religion gives us a different narrative, different story than if it
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Thank you. Because too many families have gone through the grief and pain that john and stephanie have gone through. I look forward to working with attorney generalelect maura healy, boston mayor marty walsh and many others on this issue. Because without strong action, many more individuals and families like the greens will have that same terrible experience. Now, when Lieutenant Governor polito and i complained last year we said we were chasing 100 of the vote. Based on the results this morning, we clearly didnt get it. But we campaigned hard in many communities of color, and we did so because we believe these neighborhoods have not benefited from the economic success that has become more commonplace in other parts of the commonwealth. But there are inspiring points of light in these communities because individual economic development, education, Community Development and social service entrepreneurs are turning socalled lost causes into definite winners. My friend in the commonwealth
And ive heard confessions and i know people struggling with these issues and i always have that in front of my mind when im speaking about it. And i think what we need to do is exactly what jesus did when he and now im speaking from a theological point of view and ill let you political thinks put it into your own belly lick. But jesus when he engages the woman who objectively has committed adultery and under the mosaic law, the penalty was stoning, doesnt say dont stone her. First he engages the woman. Not directly at first. But she has this sense that he loves her and he deals with her accusers and establishes himself on her side and then he finally says to her in the end, go and sib sin no more, which makes the whole story. That is the hard thing. It is to hold up justice and still permeate it with love. Because Justice Without love becomes cruelty. And i think that is what we need to do. Now how would you translate that into political wonkery, that is your job to do that. I dont thi
Like white whose are like i already know about all this. I took ethnic studies. I read all the articles. We dont need to talk about this. So theres no conversation. The thing that is pop into my head immediately and based on no study. Shift the category. Would this person say that about North Carolina versus South Carolina . Would they say this about scandinavia versus norway . Would they say this about baseball versus hockey like theres you can know one thing and somehow make it present to them that that doesnt mean they know everything. Buzz that rule apply . I had a hot dog. I know how a hot dog taste. Ive eaton at chilis so i know how mexican tastes. That doesnt follow. But there are other areas where that is selfevidently true. And this is truth times a thousand of that because theyre talking about human beings. You know one person. So i think theres probably people in their lives whether its a gender line. If they know one homosexual person, if they know one gay person. Do they k