Religion Dispatches
Let’s be clear: half of the world’s poor are women, and the church’s effort to deprive the Catholic women among them of contraceptives, of the use of condoms that could protect them from HIV-AIDS, and of the ministry of women priests who would marry, absolve, and anoint them, is no service to them.
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While I do not doubt that there are certain similarities between apartheid (as well as US segregation) and the exclusion of women from Roman Catholic ordination, and while I can believe that Fresen’s feelings about these two injustices are similar, it is not ethically acceptable to say that they are “just the same.”
Read MoreWelcome! Welcome! And imagine what could happen if the author of the Twilight series mixed in some consciousness-raising with the vampires!
Read MoreHow about the supposedly progressive mainline churches?
Read MoreCaution, religion!
Read MoreHow would Sheryl Sandberg tackle the world’s most intransigent gender inequities?
Read MoreOrdination as subordination? Perhaps there’s another way to look at it…
Read MoreWomen in pants, gay pride, a certain presidential candidate, and the athletes who probably outranked him in popularity.
Read MoreAfter Mormon women stage the largest concerted feminist effort in LDS history, it’s time to keep the conversation going.
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The recent spate of mass killers all sought to solve their problems with a certain expression of gun violence that maps easily onto the masculinist roots of Christianity and other religious traditions—particularly in more conservative expressions.
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