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Sex and the Seminary: Wake Up and Smell the Incense

By Mary E. Hunt

…rses in sexual ethics, LGBTQ issues, women’s issues, as well as sexual and domestic violence; integration of sexuality topics into the introductory and basic courses such as Scripture, History Pastoral Studies, etc.; and required training for faculty and staff on integrating sexuality issues into their teaching and advising, as well as attention to appropriate professional boundaries. None of the seminaries studied met all of these goals. In fact,…

Muslim Women Go Public

By Fatemeh Fakhraie

…ticularly for her translation of the sura that is usually used to sanction domestic violence. • Lily Munir teaches a gender-empowering interpretation of the Qur’an to girls in Indonesian religious schools. In Syria, the Qubaisiat (Islamic women’s society) has presided over opening several new Islamic schools for girls and women. • Many Muslim women in South Asia have pushed their way into male-dominated areas, working to create a women-only mosque…

Is it ‘biblical to enforce the law,’ as Trump Admin Claims in Defense of Separating Families?

By Daniel Schultz

…lew up at the last minute). I can’t interpret the law to accept victims of domestic violence or gang violence. The US shouldn’t have to address the poverty and violence it helped create in Central America. If migrants choose to die in the desert, that’s on them. Again and again, Sessions deflects responsibility, interpreting conscious decisions made by him among many others over the years, to be immutable facts, just the way things have to be. Not…

Did TV “News” Spark Anti-Islam Vandalism?

By Lauri Lebo

…t means overseas and, disturbingly enough, also here on American soil. The domestic terrorist threat is real and some believe it’s nurtured in remote areas of this country, including middle Tennessee.” The news piece also includes a clip from Homegrown Jihad, which makes the unchallenged assertion: “Overwhelmingly, the vast majority of Muslim organizations inside the United States are affiliated with terrorist groups overseas.” After teasing the r…

Another Important Defection From the Russian Patriarchate Looms — The Fate of Orthodoxy in the West Hangs in the Balance

By Katherine Kelaidis

…on on liturgical worship and Christian faith. As an adjunct professor at a number of non-Orthodox seminaries, as well as one of the first preeminent Orthodox theologians to write and publish primarily in English, Fr. Schmemann was critical in introducing Orthodoxy to America—and, importantly, in introducing America to Orthodoxy. Fr. Schmemann’s life and theological work are a testament to an open kind of Orthodox Christian theology and faith, the…

Religion vs. Girls’ Education

By Susan Henking

…rom organizations hard at work to ensure that right–for everyone, including (y)our daughters. Yes, it was 1787 when Mary Wollstonecraft first issued her “Thoughts on the Education of Daughters.” Very little there moves beyond the domestic; but once she started thinking, she arrived at “A Vindication of the Rights of Women” in 1792. Perhaps we too can radicalize by moving from the education of daughters to the rights of women (and girls). After all…

The Myth of the “Bipartisan Pro-Life Majority”

By Sarah Posner

…d gynecological ‘well visit,’ leaving essential care such as pelvic exams, domestic violence screening, counseling about sexually transmitted diseases, and, perhaps most startlingly, the provision of birth control off the list of basic benefits all insurers must cover,” according to Sharon Lerner, writing in The Nation. Casey was the only Senate Democrat on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee to vote last summer against the Women’s…

Anonymous Utah Group Distributes Vigilante “Illegal Immigrant” Watchlist

By Joanna Brooks

…Christ of Latter-day Saints, it’s pretty safe to assume that a significant number of “Concerned Citizens of the United States” are Mormon. But so too are a significant number of undocumented immigrants living in the American West. As we’ve reported here at RD, the Church’s strongest growth over the last decade has been among Latino populations, and almost 4.5 million Mormons worldwide are Spanish-speaking. Economic downtimes and anti-immigrant out…

Marriage Vote ‘Transforms’ Not-So-Catholic Ireland; Activist to Malaysian PM – ‘Love Is Not Terrorism’; LGBTs Find Growing Acceptance in Colombia, Not At World Meeting of Families; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…years, Ireland is no longer “the most Catholic country in the world.” The number of Irish who attend church every week has dropped from 90 percent to 30 percent. Kennedy spoke with a college professor who stopped going to church after the scandals broke; “when she cast her vote in favor of same-sex marriage, she says she was voting against the Catholic Church.” Kennedy also spoke with Dublin’s Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, who she says “admits he’s…

DeSantis is a No-Show, the Right’s ‘Secret Sauce,’ and Final Thoughts on Pray Vote Stand

By PRA Staff

…he gives us his biblical worldview spin: the person who’s right about the number is the person who knows who made the number and for what purpose. Neither person in the meme can know the truth of whether it’s a six or a nine until the author of the meme tells them. In other words, while there might be many worldviews, only God can truly tell us the truth of the world. Thus the only worldview that’s correct is the one that acknowledges God made th…