Faith is Not the Enemy of Feminism
A new report identifies three areas where women’s empowerment and religion are linked: activism, scholarship, and popular culture.
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Are Academic Theologians Useless? Part II
Responding to a post last week, a public theologian (and evangelical blogger) lays out the challenge.
Read MoreTheses Nailed to Wall of Conservative Jewry
A copy of the missive, leaked to the press, charges the conservative movement with being insular, unresponsive, and of diminishing value to its member organizations.
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Vatican Official Challenges Excommunication in Brazil
Archbishop says that in the case of the nine-year-old girl who was excommunicated for her life-saving abortion, the first concern of the Church should have been pastoral, not punitive.
Read MoreEgyptian Fatwa Gives Neighbors Right to Dissolve Marriages
Worried about what the neighbors think? Egyptians now have a serious reason to.
Read MoreFearful Saudi Conservatives Flexing Muscles
As the Saudi leadership makes motions toward liberalizing the state a conservative leader makes an interesting argument.
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Your Prayer is Spoken! For Just $3.95 Per Month
A new subscription service pays homage to the days of indulgences. Only now it’s cheaper. Praise capitalism.
Read More87th Anniversary of First Bat/s Mitzvah
The very first girl to perform the Jewish coming of age ritual did so in the 20th century. She was the daugher of Reconstructionist founder Mordecai Kaplan.
Read MoreAIG: On Charisma and Routinization of Greed
Why exactly are these prophets receiving even more bonus money and what happened to Obama the prophet candidate?
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Abstinence, Not Condoms, Says Pope Upon Leaving for Africa
The Pope sticks to a failing position as he heads to Africa. More then simply correct information we need to change attitudes toward the basic goodness of human sexual relations as part of preventing the spread of AIDS.
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