Today’s White Niggers | Part 9: The Luminous Darkness

March 9, 2019

America creates dark feelings in whites. These dark feelings can be transformed into a luminous darkness that can mend racially-ravaged hearts. The shining light of this luminous darkness is unconditional love.

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Today’s White Niggers | Part 7: White Niggers and The Tea Party Religion

February 23, 2019

Religion, race, and God are tightly bound together in Tea Party political tactics. The religious power of The Tea Party movement is its attention to the aggrieved feelings of … broken, angry, enraged, and despairing white hearts as a religious practice.

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Today’s White Niggers | Discussion A: Black-Faced Feelings

February 6, 2019

Reflection and Discussion. An exercise in practicing love beyond belief as the heart of compassion for ourselves, others, and the world. 

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Thandeka’s Interview with Westar Institute: Paul’s Brain Science of Emotions

January 26, 2019

Modern science may reveal things that Paul understood at an instinctive level—things that we can see now with much greater clarity. Using the tools of affective neuroscience, Thandeka examines Paul’s first-century attempt to teach selfless love, demonstrating how this love relates to human psychology, and asking if selfless love is the true value and future of religion.

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Watch the Blackbird

March 21, 2018

The brain science behind this “new science of political emotions” was invented by political scientists who argued that voters may forget the information they initially learned about the candidate, but they will hold onto their emotional attitudes.

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