Bachmann Faces Sexism in Iowa
Do Christian women really struggle with the idea of a female president?
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Teach Your Children Well: Challenging Religion-Based Sexism
During my lecture I faced a standing room crowd of heretics, fence sitters, curiosity seekers, and true believers bracing for a circus sideshow. Traveling across America to speak on freethought and abolitionism during the 19th century, white feminist atheist Ernestine Rose was smeared as being a “thousand times below a prostitute.”
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Will Women Priests Change the Church?
Catholic women priests are an oxymoron for the Vatican. It considers them automatically excommunicated before the holy oil is dry on their hands. Other Catholics accept them as sacramental ministers and are delighted with the innovation. Still, others, myself included, want far deeper structural changes in the Catholic Church such that priesthood loses its baked-on charm and ministry becomes the expected task of adult members. This is an important theological conversation that the Vatican wishes would go away. Memo to them: it is just starting.
Read MoreWashington Post Critic’s Coded Racial Comments On New ABC Host Christiane Amanpour
The newspaper’s right wing TV critic charges that Amanpour, an Iranian-born journalist, can’t be objective on Israel.
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Inauguration Day: Re-imagining Ourselves
With the election of Barack Obama Americans have proven that we are able to re-imagine something as fundamental as race, as the perception of our bodies in society. But oppression is a complex mechanism, and we cannot allow ourselves to be blinded to its workings.
Read MoreImus is Back… Of Course
Imus’ unsurprising return underscores the lack of a meaningful dialogue on race and gender in America.
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