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Finding the “Good Girl Role Model”

…10 newspaper editor who’s infamously a virgin … well, until she gets her repressed self pregnant. Not the Britney who pretends while slutting herself out on stage.” She’s looking for “Real, normal, cool 20somethings whose lives are so full and they are so loved or at least have such self-respect that they don’t need all that wonderful stuff until they’re married.” In a bizarre follow-up the next day, the good girl Lopez finds is the dead Mroz, lif…

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The End of Jewish Education As We Know It?

…bbi Akiva did not agree. Akiva, a staunch pragmatist, who had been an illiterate shepherd till he started studying Torah at the age of 40, eventually rising to preeminence before he was martyred, at the age of 90, by the Romans, said there was nothing shameful about looking out for number one. Though elsewhere he proposed that the essence of the Law was to “love your neighbor as yourself,” here he asserted that partial survival was better than a t…

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‘Biblical’ Disaster in Haiti: Pat Robertson and the Curse of Unyielding Ignorance

…testant population of Haiti is somewhere around thirty percent. In Port-au-Prince that number jumps to almost forty percent. The majority of these churches are Pentecostal. These churches are overwhelmingly independent, indigenous Haitian entities, though some are linked to North American denominational Pentecostal churches. Haiti, along with Jamaica and Puerto Rico, is home to one of the fastest growing Pentecostal populations in the Caribbean. A…

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Three church doors in a row, all shut.

As a Queer Catholic Woman I Had High Hopes Before the 2023 Catholic Synod on Synodality

…Catholics and allies are pushing for will not be achieved this year. They probably won’t be achieved this century. The door is rusted and rooted—it’s probably going to take more substantial remodeling. The Church moves at a slow pace, and I’m hopeful that these small moments will mean something, perhaps in a few decades or centuries. But at this moment, it feels like it doesn’t. The progress that I, and so many other LGBTQ Catholics dream of real…

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Indonesia Hears Islamist Arguments For LGBT Criminalization; Zambian Churches Oppose Condom Distribution in Prisons; Lithuanian Conservative Manifesto Calls LGBTs Enemies of Freedom; Global LGBT Recap

…t week that Catholic bishops had called for September protests against the president’s proposal to make constitutional changes recognizing marriage equality, which is currently spreading across Mexico through a series of court rulings. Proceso reports this week that the National Front for the Family has announced anti-marriage-equality marches in 60 cities. A spokesman for the group said Mexico needs to protect the “natural family” from the govern…

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Pope Invites his Flock to Join Facebook: Is the Digital Reformation Here?

…llaborative, Social Reading This new connectedness, as I’ve suggested here previously, is perhaps more premodern than postmodern in its ethos, a point made far more concretely by the announcement that San Francisco start-up Rethink Books will be launching software with which publishers can produce books as iPad apps that allow for collaborative, social reading. Like so many ancient and medieval religious sages, readers will have the opportunity to…

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Racial Justice Will Be Top Priority for New Prez of the United Church of Christ

…ice concerns throughout his career, most recently focusing on immigration, private prisons, the environment, and marriage equality. Dorhauer earned a Master of Divinity degree from Eden Theological Seminary and a Doctor of Ministry from United Theological Seminary. He will now lead one of the most iconic Christian churches in American history. One widely perceived as having fallen on hard times. The UCC is the direct institutional descendent of th…

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The Passion of Katniss: How the Hunger Games Confronts the Trauma of Violence

…aton works almost exclusively with combat veterans, both in government and private practices, and he has written extensively about the Hunger Games on his blog. Deaton describes talking with a combat veteran whose son was reading the books: “So when my son tries to understand all that I go through,” he asked, ” all that’s happened to me and all that keeps happening to me, could I say to him, ‘Remember the kids in those books, what they went throug…

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For Clergy Who Ministered Through the AIDS Crisis Covid is Both Eerily Familiar and Puzzlingly Different

…re.” “[W]e talked about barriers and condoms back in the day, and safe sex practices. I now talk about social distancing and masks. And for me it’s six in one hand, half a dozen in another. Protect yourself. Be responsible not just for yourself but for your partner. . . . It’s really not different.” Another is the skill of ritual innovation, honed in ministry to people whose life passages were not ritually marked in the eyes of the dominant cultur…

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Discovering “Little Syria”—New York’s Long-Lost Arab Neighborhood

…still residential. Its future is dubious, but Joe was not giving up on its preservation prospects. “See those lintels?” he asked. We looked dutifully above the windows of the tenement. “Those are cast iron. Otherwise, they would have long ago crumbled away. And in all my walks across the city for the last 15 years, I haven’t seen any other cast iron lintels in that Federal style.” The group of six of us must have all looked as nonplussed as I felt…

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