A State Without a Mexican
Faith-based groups were active last week in publicly protesting Arizona’s law, evoking compassion, the dignity of the human, the imago Dei in all of us.
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New Report Breaks Silence on Faith-Based Orgs
“Seeing Is Believing” shines light on practices, lack of transparency, and effectiveness of US funding of faith-based organizations.
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Furious, Shaking, and Nauseated
Reminding us that there is ample biblical backing for a compassionate posture on immigration the author vividly recounts a personal brush with racial profiling.
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Christian Imperialism in Haiti? Missionaries, Theo-tourism, and the Invasion of the Global South
The disaster in Haiti has brought attention to the ways that aid and ignorance sometimes come as a package.
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Bad Magic: Voodoo According to Disney
Disney’s first black heroine, yes, but this is a case of one step forward, two steps back—the film’s representation of Voodoo is prejudiced and misinformed.
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“Biblical” Disaster: Understanding Religion in Haiti
Note to Pat Robertson: Haiti is not a nation of Vodou practitioners. It is, and continues to be, overwhelmingly Christian.
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A four-hour documentary on what it means to be Latino/a in America misses the mark completely.
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Rum and Gunpowder: How to Take Out a Vodou Doll
A scholar of the religion known as Vodou (or Voodoo, if you’re Anglo) tells how she saved a small cloth ritual object from desecration by a gang of spooked professors.
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Sotomayor is Sworn in: Latina Wisdom Personified
The phrase “wise Latina” is a deep part of the experience of Hispanic culture, and connects Sotomayor with a tradition so connected to women’s wisdom that it is known as “abuelita” theology.
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