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Nancy Hardesty, Founding Mother of Biblical Feminist Movement (1941-2011)

…a small stack of books (now a book-case full) that argued for alternative readings of the “difficult passages” in the Bible that had been used to subjugate women in Christianity. And they did so in a style of reading the Bible that was intended to connect with conservative Christians. One of the earliest of those books was All We’re Meant to Be by Letha Dawson Scanzoni and Nancy Hardesty. Letha has on posted a tribute to Nancy on her blog: the sto…

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Resurrecting Marley at 70: Rastafari History in 5 Songs

…For many Americans the mention of Marley conjures the image of flashing dreadlocks, ganja smoke, and reggae’s hypnotic beat—all of which are pleasant enough. And yet, the politics of consumer capitalism and muckraking media have tainted the remembrance of a potent religious and social activist (as it has also threatened, albeit to a far lesser degree, the memory of MLK). Black Americans of Caribbean lineage, however, recognize this other Bob Marl…

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Everything Was Better When We Had God In Our Schools

…63) knocked prayer and state-sponsored religious activities such as Bible readings out of our public schools for good, our schools must have been idyllic places, largely free from the type and extent of violence we see today. Sure, there were the occasional schoolyard fights, but those are a far cry from the premeditated, high-fatality attacks that are seemingly becoming all too common these days. God was allowed in our schools, and the safety of…

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Fix the Economy GOD’$ WAY: Dave Ramsey’s Great Christian Recovery

…i Methodist, December 1931* The Great Recovery is a grassroots movement spread by people who are tired of looking to Washington for answers. The truth is that the government can’t fix this economy. It’ll be restored one family at a time, as each of us takes a stand to return to God and grandma’s way of handling money. —from Dave Ramsey’s The Great Recovery website The Great Recovery for an economy stalled with lingering high unemployment and stagn…

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The Redemptive Power of Jewish Self-Hatred

…riarch, Herr Aarenhold, who collects expensive old books that he does not read; for his wife, an “ugly” woman with an ostentatious necklace “upon her shrunken breast.” The Aarenhold’s four grown children are charmless and hypercritical; Mann makes much of their “sallow” skin and “hooked” noses; as he puts it, the “facial characteristics” of their “race.” But what’s significant about the story, aside from how much the author hates these characters,…

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The Sacred and the Dead: How an Iranian-Jewish Angeleno Discovered Her Tribe

…I am attending Beverly Hills High School with more than 1,000 students in each grade. The social landscape at Beverly Hills High School in the 1990s was insular and segregated. People from the same ethnic background tended to be friends only with each other and there was very little mixing between social groups. Most high school friendships had developed years earlier in elementary school, so the cliques were already established, and I was an out…

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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s Legacy of Eugenics and Racism Can’t Be Ignored

…Harry and Meghan Markle, many observers around the world wondered, as one headline put it, “Who was the Jesuit priest mentioned during the Royal Wedding sermon?” On Twitter, many of those familiar with the work of that Jesuit priest, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, expressed surprise and joy at the inclusion of a figure whose work had had a warning, or “monitum,” placed on it by the Catholic Church in 1962. Others swooned over one of the quotes mentio…

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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s Legacy of Eugenics and Racism Can’t Be Ignored

…Harry and Meghan Markle, many observers around the world wondered, as one headline put it, “Who was the Jesuit priest mentioned during the Royal Wedding sermon?” On Twitter, many of those familiar with the work of that Jesuit priest, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, expressed surprise and joy at the inclusion of a figure whose work had had a warning, or “monitum,” placed on it by the Catholic Church in 1962. Others swooned over one of the quotes mentio…

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In Trump’s America, a Reminder of Our Prophetic Past

…need to about the members of this Magnificent Seven. And it’s bracing to read about fearless American originals as we await the demolitions and predations of the coming Trump years. American Prophets: Seven Religious Radicals and Their Struggle for Social and Political Justice Albert J. Raboteau Princeton University Press September 2016 The seven are well chosen: Abraham Joshua Heschel, A.J. Muste, Dorothy Day, Howard Thurman, Thomas Merton, Mart…

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It’s The Apocalypse, Stupid: Understanding Christian Opposition to Obamacare, Civil Rights, New Deal and More

…going to concede their power in the End Times to a totalitarian political leader who is going to be the Antichrist. If you believe you’re living in the last days and you believe you’re moving towards that event, you’re going to be very suspicious and skeptical of anything that seems to undermine individual rights and individual liberties, and anything that is going to give more power to the state. How significant is apocalypticism in the history o…

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