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    • If the Media Are Reluctant to Properly Label the GOP’s Racist, Christian Nationalist Ideologies, We’ll Have Trouble Hanging on to Democracy
      If the Media Are Reluctant to Properly Label the GOP’s Racist, Christian Nationalist Ideologies, We’ll Have Trouble Hanging on to Democracy
    • ‘Pregnant Women’ or ‘People Who Can Get Pregnant’: How Do We Balance Recognition of Anti-Abortion Misogyny with the Erasure of Transmasculine People?
      ‘Pregnant Women’ or ‘People Who Can Get Pregnant’: How Do We Balance Recognition of Anti-Abortion Misogyny with the Erasure of Transmasculine People?
    • Who’s ‘Really’ Jewish: the Sefardi Floridian, the Ashkenazi Californian, or the New York Jew By Choice? ‘Authenticity’ is a Trap
      Who’s ‘Really’ Jewish: the Sefardi Floridian, the Ashkenazi Californian, or the New York Jew By Choice? ‘Authenticity’ is a Trap
  • Politics/Law
    • If the Media Are Reluctant to Properly Label the GOP’s Racist, Christian Nationalist Ideologies, We’ll Have Trouble Hanging on to Democracy
      If the Media Are Reluctant to Properly Label the GOP’s Racist, Christian Nationalist Ideologies, We’ll Have Trouble Hanging on to Democracy
    • ‘We Believe That God Has a Special Plan for Every Single Life’: Oklahoma’s Strict, Punitive, and Total Abortion Ban is Just the Beginning
      ‘We Believe That God Has a Special Plan for Every Single Life’: Oklahoma’s Strict, Punitive, and Total Abortion Ban is Just the Beginning
    • Don’t Buy Alito’s Assurances: Here’s What Happens Next After <em>Roe</em> Falls
      Don’t Buy Alito’s Assurances: Here’s What Happens Next After Roe Falls
  • The End of Roe
    • ‘We Believe That God Has a Special Plan for Every Single Life’: Oklahoma’s Strict, Punitive, and Total Abortion Ban is Just the Beginning
      ‘We Believe That God Has a Special Plan for Every Single Life’: Oklahoma’s Strict, Punitive, and Total Abortion Ban is Just the Beginning
    • Laugh at Tucker Carlson’s Tanning Testicles Doc All You Want, But the Bulging Muscles and Potent Sperm Imagery is a Fascist Dream
      Laugh at Tucker Carlson’s Tanning Testicles Doc All You Want, But the Bulging Muscles and Potent Sperm Imagery is a Fascist Dream
    • ‘Pregnant Women’ or ‘People Who Can Get Pregnant’: How Do We Balance Recognition of Anti-Abortion Misogyny with the Erasure of Transmasculine People?
      ‘Pregnant Women’ or ‘People Who Can Get Pregnant’: How Do We Balance Recognition of Anti-Abortion Misogyny with the Erasure of Transmasculine People?
  • Christian Nationalism
    • If the Media Are Reluctant to Properly Label the GOP’s Racist, Christian Nationalist Ideologies, We’ll Have Trouble Hanging on to Democracy
      If the Media Are Reluctant to Properly Label the GOP’s Racist, Christian Nationalist Ideologies, We’ll Have Trouble Hanging on to Democracy
    • ‘We Believe That God Has a Special Plan for Every Single Life’: Oklahoma’s Strict, Punitive, and Total Abortion Ban is Just the Beginning
      ‘We Believe That God Has a Special Plan for Every Single Life’: Oklahoma’s Strict, Punitive, and Total Abortion Ban is Just the Beginning
    • Laugh at Tucker Carlson’s Tanning Testicles Doc All You Want, But the Bulging Muscles and Potent Sperm Imagery is a Fascist Dream
      Laugh at Tucker Carlson’s Tanning Testicles Doc All You Want, But the Bulging Muscles and Potent Sperm Imagery is a Fascist Dream
  • Russia Invades Ukraine
    • Putin Theo-Propaganda Minister Kirill Invokes 600 Years of History to Lay Claim to Ukraine — Here’s What it Means
      Putin Theo-Propaganda Minister Kirill Invokes 600 Years of History to Lay Claim to Ukraine — Here’s What it Means
    • How Belief in Moscow as ‘The New Rome’ Explains Kirill’s Astonishing Declaration That ‘Russia Has Never Attacked Anyone’
      How Belief in Moscow as ‘The New Rome’ Explains Kirill’s Astonishing Declaration That ‘Russia Has Never Attacked Anyone’
    • Is This Tiny Divided Orthodox Nation the Next Front in Russia’s Religious War?
      Is This Tiny Divided Orthodox Nation the Next Front in Russia’s Religious War?
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Donna Schaper

The Rev. Dr. Donna Schaper is Senior Minister of Judson Memorial Church in New York City. Her most recent books are "Approaching the End of Life: A Spiritual and Practical Guide," (Rowman & Littlefield) and "Prayers for People who think they can't" (Abingdon Press).

(A)theologies, Beyond Belief: Election 2016, OMFG, Politics/LawJune 2, 2017

Prexit and the Planet: Our Resistance Must Know No Borders

By Donna Schaper

The US exit from the Paris agreement, our Prexit, is an environmental catastrophe. We needed…

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Archive, Politics/Law, ScienceNovember 22, 2016

It’s Not Climate Change, It’s Climate Chaos: Lessons from COP22

By Donna Schaper

When it comes to participating in climate chaos, we are like infants learning to walk.

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(A)theologies, Archive, ScienceNovember 17, 2016

Where Trump and Climate Deniers Seem Very Far Away: COP22 in Marrakech

By Donna Schaper

“Please don’t come here to solve our poverty when yours is so apparent,” the message goes.

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(A)theologies, Archive, Remapping American ChristianitiesOctober 24, 2016

Jesus Has Left the Building: Celebrating the Next Reformation

By Donna Schaper

Today we have the same fossilization of institutional religion, only this time it is us Protestants.

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Archive, Remapping American ChristianitiesAugust 10, 2016

Ordination of Women: Keep it Irregular

By Donna Schaper

The year before I was ordained, 1973, I spent every Tuesday night reading Beyond God…

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(A)theologies, Guest Bloggers, OMFG, RD BlogDecember 14, 2015

Post-Paris Reflections: We May Have to Learn to Hope

By Donna Schaper

Now that the goals are reached, the document signed, the minsters packed out of Paris,…

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Guest Bloggers, OMFG, RD BlogDecember 11, 2015

Reporting from Paris: A Prayer for Polluters

By Donna Schaper

Today is a good day for the world famous so-called “Serenity Prayer.” It is part…

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(A)theologies, Guest Bloggers, OMFG, RD BlogDecember 9, 2015

Big Ecumenical Gathering Marks Multi-Faith Presence at Paris Climate Talks

By Donna Schaper

Last night was a full on hope session, with good wine, at the American Cathedral…

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(A)theologies, RD BlogDecember 9, 2015

Report From Paris: Who Is Naomi Klein, Religiously?

By Donna Schaper

Thank God I got to hear Naomi Klein speak before floating home. I am officially religious; she…

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Guest Bloggers, RD BlogDecember 8, 2015

Reporting from Paris During COP21: A Haunted Sabbath

By Donna Schaper

This past Sunday—day four of COP21—was a day off for the summit although no one believed…

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