Joy in a Climate of Injustice
What is joy in a climate of injustice? How should we think about Kamala Harris’s politics of joy? First, it is a radical contrast from...
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Marvin T. Brown
Sep 17
Who has been chosen?
If God were a just God, who created everyone, then it seems weird that god would choose some people over others. Or, put it another way,...
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Marvin T. Brown
Aug 26
The Sacred and the Solemn
Both the sacred and the solemn elicit reverence, a reverence for something other than our selves. Both invite us to be reverent, but...
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Marvin T. Brown
Jul 23
A Message to Christian Nationalists
If I understand you correctly, you want to do “God’s will,” and that you know “God’s will” from the Bible, which is “God’s Word.” In...
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Marvin T. Brown
Jul 4
Frederick Douglass' descendants deliver his 'Fourth of July' speech
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Marvin T. Brown
Jun 25
Our Political Climate is in Crisis
Like the natural world, the world of politics changes temperature depending on its climate. The current heat waves, fires, and floods...
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Marvin T. Brown
Jun 11
The Eleven Chapters of A Climate of Justice
I’ve been surprised that many people have chosen to read chapters of my book, A Climate of Justice, rather than download the whole book. ...
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Marvin T. Brown
May 28
Our Domestic Imperial Climate
Of the many barriers to a climate of justice, few appear as difficult to overcome as the contempt for the rule of law that we are...
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Marvin T. Brown
May 9
The Principle of Coherence and Conflicting Memories
In a liberal household and even in a liberal society, we tend to let each other keep their memories, even when we disagree. Most of us...
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Marvin T. Brown
Apr 23
The Taking of America
Is the United States in or of America? Maybe a strange question, but perhaps one that can shed some light on our climate of injustice...
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Marvin T. Brown
Apr 3
The Civic Context of Political Campaigns
Political campaigns always occur in some context, and it turns out that the context makes quite a difference. I will use the...
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Marvin T. Brown
Mar 12
Christian Zionism and American “Civil Religion”
It could be that our government continues to ship bombs to Israel because we, like Israel, are a settler nation. In different ways...
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Marvin T. Brown
Feb 27
Index of Topics 2020 - 2023
As I enter the 4th year of writing posts for the Climate of Justice Project, it seems like a good idea to share the blog’s list of...
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Marvin T. Brown
Feb 13
Trump’s People and the Climate of Justice
We know more about Trump’s people then what we can glean from Jan 6. They have been around for a long time striving to prevent changes...
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Marvin T. Brown
Jan 23
D.E.I. vs U.M.E.
David French recently wrote in the NYTimes that it would be a good idea to not use “D.E.I.” anymore because it has been misused...
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Marvin T. Brown
Jan 9
Ethics of the 14th Amendment
One of the first principles of ethics is “just because it’s legal, doesn’t make it right.” In fact, one could make a long list of laws...
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Marvin T. Brown
Dec 14, 2023
Digital and Human Languages
When I imagine conversations that promote a climate of justice, I have assumed that the conversations would be in our “mother tongue”—the...
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Marvin T. Brown
Nov 29, 2023
A Conceivable Letter to House Representative Mike Johnson
Dear Mr. Johnson, People like me and people like you don’t often talk with each other, so I thought I would write a letter to propose...
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Marvin T. Brown
Nov 15, 2023
Cooperation vs Domination
Cooperation seems so normal. When I first looked at Bernard E. Harcourt’s book titled “Cooperation,” I wasn’t sure it was worth a...
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Marvin T. Brown
Oct 24, 2023
The Protection of Civilians
A dominant theme of The Climate of Justice is that developing a social climate of justice requires the protection of civilians. Since...
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