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A Church Group, a Lawsuit, and a Culture of Abuse

By T.F. Charlton

…exual abuse. Sadly, I was even less surprised when the suit was amended in January to include Covenant Life Church (CLC), the congregation I had attended for nine years, and to add new charges of physical and sexual abuse by pastors, as well as allegations of abuse on church property. From what I’d seen inside Sovereign Grace and Covenant Life from 1996–2005, the alleged abuse seemed almost predictable—the result of the group’s toxic teachings on…

Is This the End of Roe v. Wade And the End of Abortion Rights in the US?

By Chrissy Stroop

Saturday 22 January marks 49 years since the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Roe v. Wade established a right to abortion across the US. While reproductive rights organizations such as Planned Parenthood are celebrating the occasion, they are also preparing for the likelihood that they won’t be celebrating its 50th anniversary, next year. The Roe ruling currently stands in the balance as the Supreme Court prepares to issue a decision, this co…

As Vaccine Holdouts Cave What’s the Lesson for Liberals? Authoritarians Require Force

By John Stoehr

…r, Ned Lamont. The state press corps spent last week speculating about the number of workers who’d walk off the job before being forced to get the shot. Attention settled on school bus drivers. Around 500,000 children depend on them. Reporters asked the Lamont administration what it would do if thousands of kids were left stranded. But by Monday, it was clear that the vast majority of drivers complied with the law. A similar pattern played out acr…

Women and Children First: Syria’s Day of Dignity

By Mohja Kahf

…ad been organizing nonviolent civil disobedience actions in Damascus since January 28, which had emboldened increasing numbers of young women and men. Several who gathered on March 16 were from Daraa, including Meimuna Alammar and journalist Dana Jawabra. And no wonder; Daraa had fifteen new prisoners as of March 5: the children. The Dignity of Women What happened to the Women of March 16, like what happened to the still-imprisoned young Tal Mallo…

Insurance Coverage for Abortion in Health Care Reform Threatened

By Carlton Veazey

…Act”) and HR 358 (the “Protect Life Act”)—as soon as Congress convened in January. An estimated 14.5 million women who are insured by their mid-sized and large employers would be affected by these new restrictions, according to the Employee Benefits Research Institute. Contrast that to the fact that about 80 percent of private plans now cover pregnancy termination. (This is in addition to women whose coverage for abortion is already restricted to…

Watching the Trump Admin’s Coronavirus Response is Like Watching a Bumbling Cult

By Daniel Schultz

…rump has latched onto the daily count of coronavirus cases, citing the low number of confirmed cases as evidence of his ability to manage the crisis. The president is a profoundly ignorant man incapable of understanding that quarantining an entire cruise ship might have dire consequences. He is incapable, really, of understanding much of anything about the true nature of the situation, and he has bent the entire reins of government to the task of…

Suffering Olympics: Is There Any Point to Comparing the Holocaust to Gaza?

By Jonathan L. Walton

…fessor is currently in the midst of a political and academic firestorm. In January, sociology professor William I. Robinson sent what he considered to be a provocative email to 80 students enrolled in his sociology of globalization course comparing photographs of Jewish victims of the Holocaust with similar images of Palestinian victims of Israel’s latest Gaza attacks. Robinson, who is Jewish, offered his own written commentary that included the l…

As Gays More Accepted, Religious Opponents More Vocal

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…more slowly. Thirty percent supported it in 2003, with an 8-point gain by January 2010 to 38 percent. Support has also grown, though not as swiftly, for adoption rights, rising eight points from 38 percent in 2003 to 46 percent in 2008. Allowing open military service has been favored by a 52 percent majority since 1994 and has risen nine points to 61 percent this year. Dr. Clyde Wilcox, professor of government at Georgetown University, during a p…

A Primer on Activism from Unitarian Universalists

By Kim Bobo

…mmigration reform a top UUA public witness priority. At the denomination’s January 2010 Board of Trustees meeting, he and UUA moderator (and Chair of the Board) Gini Courter arranged for trustees to meet with undocumented immigrants, community organizers and immigration experts, thus laying the groundwork for full leadership support for immigration reform advocacy. When SB 1070 was passed and the Boycott Arizona campaign began, the UUA Board of Tr…

Meet The Liberal Tea Partiers

By Abby Scher

…on. Oregon faced a $4 billion hole in 2010—one-quarter of its budget. In a January referendum, a union-led coalition which included some congregations won permanent tax hikes on individuals who make more than $125,000 and families earning over $250,000; corporations will pay anywhere from $150 to as much as $100,000 or more, depending on profitability. As one advocate explained, quoting Luke, “Taxes should be based on ability to pay. A few pennies…