A feminist theologian in the Lutheran tradition writes about issues at the intersection of politics, religion, social justice, and pop culture.
This is the third set of prayers for women, men, and families seeking reproductive justice. 40 Days of Prayer to Stop the War on Women is a campaign by Faith Aloud, with a prayer a day beginning September 28 and leading up to the election. “Faith Aloud is a movement to give spiritual support to [...]
Meryl Streep says it best: “We’ve got to do something. Right now. You and me.” Nancy Northrup from the Center for Reproductive Rights explains: It’s time that a woman’s right to safe and accessible reproductive health care be safeguarded from the political tactics of those who seek to chip it away. It’s time for women [...]
Stephanie Coontz is spot-on in her analysis of “The Myth of Male Decline” in the September 29 New York Times: Several of the authors of [recent] books posit that we are on the verge of a “new majority of female breadwinners,” where middle-class wives lord over their husbands while demoralized single men take refuge in [...]
Today is the second anniversary of Owen’s baptism. Last year on this day, over at TheReligiousLeft.org, I wrote: On 10/10/10, he was the fifth child with whom my husband and I stood, alongside his parents, and made promises: To care for him, to teach and instruct him, and to love him. The first time we [...]
What’s wrong – and right – with the role of faith in American politics today? It is wrong that the mantle of religious freedom is being carried by a small minority of leaders who are actually interested in protecting their own ability to impose their religious ideology on others. Here’s how I put it in [...]
This week, I continue the series that was begun last week, much to the dismay of anti-choice activists commenting freely. 40 Days of Prayer to Stop the War on Women is a campaign by Faith Aloud, with a prayer a day beginning September 28 and leading up to the election. Faith Aloud is a movement [...]
Three of my favorite organizations have challenged us all to Presidential Debate Bingo … to make your debate watching party more fun, and perhaps to dissuade Presidential Debate Drinking Games. (But who’s to say one couldn’t do both?!) The basic questions: Will the candidates address these issues? Will issues that matter to you even get [...]
40 Days of Prayer to Stop the War on Women is a campaign by Faith Aloud, with a prayer a day beginning September 28 and leading up to the election. Faith Aloud is a movement to give spiritual support to persons making reproductive decisions. As people of religious faith and conviction, Faith Aloud supports reproductive [...]
On September 23, Bishop Thomas Paprocki of the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois issued a statement detailing the evils supported by the Democratic Party Platform: God isn’t in it enough (and could be taken out!), abortion should be safe and legal, and gay rights are human rights. He continues: Now, why am I mentioning [...]
Who do you think you are? Your religion does not trump mine. If you have a moral or religious objection to dispensing medication that a woman has a legal right to, then maybe you should get another job. In your lawsuit, you said that you “believe life begins at conception, emergency contraception may act as [...]
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