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Too Hot for Shul: Rabbis Seek Healthy Israel Dialogue After Gaza

By Sarah Posner

…n difficult conversations. “Rabbis think they have to find the perfect, nuanced, balanced message that will speak to all of their politically diverse congregants and give them a model,” said JCPA’s Weintraub. But, she added, “Rabbis can exercise leadership by sending the message, wherever you stand, this is where you can come to get beyond the echo chambers of American political life, and investigate the issues honestly and constructively with peo…

Teaching Love: Soulforce Takes it to the Quad

By Nick Street

…ls, the Equality Riders have gathered for a potluck dinner at the home of John Schenck and Robert Loyd, one of the few out gay couples in Conway and coordinators of the city’s annual pride parade, which began in 2003. The pink clapboard house—two blocks north of Central Baptist College and across the street from a Church of Christ—is festooned with rainbow flags, and life-size cutouts of Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell beckon customers to the hair…

In the Aftermath of the “Himalayan Tsunami”

By Luke Whitmore

…low compared to global-scale disasters of recent years, but there is a wrenching poignancy to what is happening in Uttarakhand right now. Many of the forces that frame daily life in South Asia are suddenly on display like a raw wound: the wages of development and globalization, the power of the natural world, divine agency, altruism, self-interest, and the political nature of both government action and religious ritual. The immediate impact of th…

Hajj Journal: M & M

By Amina Wadud

…camps and after. Some had more of something that resembled a group experience enhancing the individual experiences. I think it would have gone a long way to make it through the next few days. At one other point that evening, another member of this motley crew suggested that we organize to get at least 30 people to each read one juz’, one part of the Qur’an, so that collectively, in this tent, we could say that we had read the whole Qur’an the nig…

From Here to Eternity: Of Mormons and Celestial Marriage

By Holly Welker

…stand, but have decided not to worry about because it has no impact on the way I experience Mormonism in my life.” Mormons frequently decide “not to worry about” many aspects of their doctrine, but homosexuality is currently one topic where ignoring the question is not an option. The LDS Church’s support for Proposition 8 in 2008, amending the California Constitution to make same-sex marriage illegal, has firmly linked the Mormon church to the iss…

Pricking the Conscience of Churches: From AIDS Activism to Ending World Hunger

By Susan Henking

…ing similarity. In the United States, Washington DC has the highest prevalence rate—and it also has an incredible amount of poverty. It is not accidental that South Africa has the highest number of persons infected with HIV—the consequence of apartheid has been poverty, lack of education, unemployment, hunger, and disease. In India, HIV spreads among the most impoverished and poorly educated. This theme of poverty takes me to a few more questions….

Former USCCB Spox: HHS Doesn’t Speak for Me on Contraception

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…eventive care. From p. 102-104 of the report: • The unintended pregnancy rate in the United States is high compared to other countries with comparable economies. • Women with unintended pregnancies are less likely to get early prenatal care and less likely to breastfeed. • Women with unintended pregnancies are more likely to experience depression and anxiety, more likely to experience domestic violence, and significantly more lik…

Will the Catholic Church Throw Cold Water on the LARC Revolution?

By Patricia Miller

…ee birth control and counseled about the availability of LARCs had a pregnancy rate that was less than a quarter of that of their peers—34 pregnancies per 1,000 girls versus 158.5 for those who weren’t in the study. The girls in the study, near three-quarters of whom chose LARC methods, also had 77 percent fewer abortions. This data comes on the heels of recommendations made earlier this week by the American Academy of Pediatrics that LARCs should…

Colonialism and the Crisis Inside the Crisis of Catholic Sexual Abuse

By Kathleen Holscher

…edy resulting from it, as evidence that race and colonialism are—at this juncture and at every juncture—essential to thinking about clerical sexual abuse in the United States. While the East Coast geography and white-ethnic demographic explored in the recent grand jury report are plenty revealing, the continual emphasis on this geography and demographic in recent coverage of Catholic clerical sexual abuse in the United States not only overlooks th…

Shameful GOP Tax Plan Taxes Reality

By Peter Laarman

…to corporations over ten years from a permanent reduction in the top corporate rate to just 20%, and from a couple of other corporate breaks. There will be lots of fraudulent stuff in the rhetoric of plan boosters from Trump on down, but the biggest single lie will be the claim that the corporate tax cuts are also, in effect, middle-class cuts because the benefits will flow down to workers. Let’s examine this claim, because it’s essential to be a…