Mormon Women Declare “Wear Pants to Church Day” December 16
A show of solidarity, visibility, and new readiness to pressure traditional inequalities.
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Do Not Have Sex with This Man
Ross Douthat wants you to have more babies. And he wants you to be married when you have those babies. And not just any babies. He wants you to have American babies—though, if you’re an immigrant, he’ll take your babies, too, because that’s really the only reason to allow immigrants to be here. And he wants you to hurry up and have those American babies, because if you don’t, we’ll run out of workers, and if we run out of workers the United States will get “knocked off its global perch.” Because that’s what’s at stake, ladies and gentlemen—American domination.
Read MoreAnglican Church To Install First Female African Bishop
The ACSA makes history.
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Pussy Prophets & Nuns on Buses: Will Feminist Politics Get More Holy & Foolish?
It’s simpler to assume that religion and feminism are at odds; that religion is simply the provenance of those who use tools like pro-life politics to fight feminist agendas. It’s much more complicated to think of religion as both resource and adversary in the political struggles that feminists face.
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The Real Reason For “Vagina-gate”
The Souther Baptist Convention’s Lifeway Christian Resources refused to stock Rachel Held Evans’ book ostensibly because it contains the word “vagina.” Or is it that a female writer will only be acceptable if she recites SBC rhetoric, fully supports SBC leaders, and knows her place at home and at church?
Read MoreAtheist Schism?
“Atheism+” formed to address social justice problems in the atheist community, but it may have to reckon with religion.
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Mitt Romney’s Best-Known Mormon Critic Tells it All. One Last Time.
For years, now, the press has been beating down the door of Judy Dushku, a Mormon feminist, global women’s rights activist, and professor at Suffolk University. It was Dushku who during Romney’s Senate run in 1994 broke the now infamous story of Romney’s pressuring a woman in…
Read MoreHow (Not) to Understand Romney’s Time as an LDS Bishop
Bishop Romney: Dirty Harry? Or unexceptional lay pastor?
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Pledging Virginity to Dad: A New Doc Explores the World of ‘Purity Balls’
The Wilsons claim to be offering an antidote to the hypersexualized pop culture that targets young women—but by defining girls so concretely by their virginity, they’re ensuring that young women will continue to be judged by what they do or don’t do sexually. The women who take virginity pledges and go to purity balls are promising that their bodies aren’t their own, but instead belong to their fathers and future husbands.
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Notify This! Vatican Bungles Response to Sexual Ethics Book
Six years late and with little understanding of her intentions, the Vatican denounced Margaret A. Farley’s book on sexual ethics. Is the Vatican reining in scholars it finds threatening?
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