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June 2016

June 07, 2016
Our existing prison systems do nothing to eradicate rape mentality: they only shift the focus,...
June 06, 2016
Looking back, I am ashamed. Now I wish to mend whatever flaw in my soul...
June 05, 2016
Or is it that we who laud death-dealing violence as an aspect of manliness, the...
June 03, 2016
It is ironic that in our quest to overcome all boundaries, we have enclosed other...

May 2016

May 30, 2016
I've lived through sixeen years of two different Hitlers and, amazingly, lived to tell the...
May 27, 2016
A vote for a third party is not a vote for Hillary. Nor is it...
May 26, 2016
Outraged at the divine, I decided I was tired of being good, and would begin...
May 25, 2016
In the July 2012 issue of Yes! magazine, Peter Dreier writes about "The Radical Dissent...
May 23, 2016
In Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, the atheist brother Ivan refuses to believe in a God...
May 21, 2016
Faulkner spoke of the conflict of the heart as the "only thing worth writing about,"...
May 19, 2016
While repeatedly, throughout history, lust for wealth and power has driven humans to clever interpretations...
May 18, 2016
Can an organization do an examination of conscience? No, but those who oversee it can....
May 18, 2016
Crews are working to clean up over 88,000 gallons of oil that spilled into the...
May 17, 2016
if I catch the light just right, my sloth might look like virtue, indifference like...
May 16, 2016
Jesus loves us, fat and all. Self-loathing and all.
May 14, 2016
I can't imagine that God really wants us keeling over and babbling. Communication and unity...
May 12, 2016
Think how radical this could be.
May 10, 2016
Travel into space: a Cartesian trip, a technological escape of the mind (real or artificial)...
May 09, 2016
What I found reading the story of the Mother's Day event, and perusing the comments,...
May 04, 2016
If you are supporting Trump because of his stance on the economy, immigration, Muslims, or...
May 02, 2016
We often hear sermons or admonitions against scanty dress in women, but rarely do we...

April 2016

April 27, 2016
I don’t advocate abortion as the answer to this impossibility. I advocate making better choices...
April 26, 2016
To return to our original topic: can we say that the contemporary practice of veiling...
April 25, 2016
I still have no desire to veil myself, though I may occasionally sport a fedora,...
April 24, 2016
It is not possible to function in a whole and healthy manner if one is...
April 21, 2016
There are artists that accompany us from the dark places to the bright, who give...
April 21, 2016
The term "feminist" was not invented yet, in Charlotte Brontë's day, but I will permit...
April 20, 2016
For this Jewish Catholic, this challenge to believe takes one down a very strange path,...
April 18, 2016
Because eros is not the same as sex. Sex can be an aspect of the...
April 14, 2016
With all the complaints that are made - justifiably- about the hyper-sexualization of the female...
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