White House Conference Call Seeks Common Ground on Abortion
On Friday White House officials launched a campaign to appease those on all sides of the abortion issue. Do they realize it’s nearly as thorny as Israel/Palestine?
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What Liberals Want: A Response to Susan Thistlethwaite
Theologian Susan Thistlethwaite suggested in Newsweek that liberals should respect progressive efforts to connect with evangelicals. Frances Kissling responds that the respect should begin with a sitdown between liberals and progressives.
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Oprah Talks Down to Fundamentalist Mormon Girls
Oprah’s skepticism toward FLDS girls about their devotion to unusual beliefs reminds one writer of the questions asked of Muslim women.
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RDBook: Whither the Religious Left?
Is a faux ‘religious left’ being manufactured as an official counterweight to the religious right in the media? Religion Dispatches talks with veteran religious right-watcher Frederick Clarkson about a new book of essays on revivifying a religious left.
Read MoreBad news on the Faith-Based Council
Not only is the balance on Obama’s Faith-Based Council tipped toward conservatives, it seems that for every gay rights advocate there must be a homophobe.
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RDPulpit: The Prophets of Neoliberalism
Unless the religion of Greed can be displaced, a future of hope and social justice will be stillborn.
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Islamic investing and worker justice in Indianapolis…
Read MoreAn Open Letter to Western Feminists
Some progressive feminists oppose the hijacking of women’s rights to justify U.S. invasions while avoiding any mention about the plight of women in Palestine, Iraq, or Afghanistan.
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Rebels Without a Cause
The enduring popularity of the Confederate flag has to do with faith and honor, not facts and history.
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Religion Poll Proves that Liberals Are Not Conservatives
A new Barna poll plays off of the tarnished “liberal” label and seems to push the idea that conservative religion is the real religion.
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