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November 2018

November 09, 2018
One of the strangest comments I saw, after the tragic mass shooting at Tree of...
November 07, 2018
We’re not privileging women’s voices. We’re simply asking for equal consideration with those who already...
November 04, 2018
It makes me aware of how totalitarian regimes succeed. Not because people are evil, but...
November 03, 2018
You got into this because of this weird obsession you have with seeking the truth,...
November 01, 2018
No matter what the political agenda, we should be wary about making easy comparisons to...

October 2018

October 28, 2018
When it comes to the power dynamics behind sexual assault, it seems everyone is finally...
October 27, 2018
Every one of us who ever repeated the words “never again” after reading about the...
October 20, 2018
When I first started writing here, I began teasing out the idea that we need...
October 16, 2018
I think I needed a little breathing time before writing about this issue without succumbing...
October 13, 2018
When I was teaching Women Writers, my signature course for many years, I used to...
October 11, 2018
by guest contributor H. Lillian Vogl I’ve been noticing lately that there are two deeply...
October 10, 2018
This was my third year of being involved in Revolution of Tenderness’s cultural event, the...
October 06, 2018
That is how most sexual predators are able to go undetected for decades.  If someone...

September 2018

September 26, 2018
The idea that the dispute is about abortion is undercut both by the fact that...
September 23, 2018
It is necessary for the Church and other religious institutions, as well as our legal...
September 22, 2018
Approaching sexual ethics this way is profoundly de-personalizing. It takes away agency and responsibility from...
September 18, 2018
My response? “Well, at least he was on only one knee.” From that position, he...
September 17, 2018
It’s not puritanical for us to stick by the single sine qua non for a...
September 13, 2018
No matter how hard it is for us to accept that the men we viewed...
September 10, 2018
Obedience to God is one thing. But how do we know when it’s God? Why...
September 08, 2018
In brief, when your church is the center of your community’s social life—whether in a...

August 2018

August 31, 2018
While “forgiveness” of “sins” might give the perpetrator a clean slate, it does nothing to...
August 30, 2018
Given the repressive conditions I’ve described—one in which authority is not questioned, church leaders have...
August 28, 2018
On the basis of the evidence of past action, it does not seem to me...
August 22, 2018
Above all, though, I feel that I have spent my life as a Catholic with...
August 19, 2018
To give up because “it’s all in God’s hands” is a kind of nihilistic rejection...
August 16, 2018
The problem is power. Any concentration of power in a single demographic will lead ultimately...
August 14, 2018
It’s important to distinguish between scapegoating and the pursuit of justice, and not to try...

July 2018

July 28, 2018
In an intellectual arena where Catholic speakers and writers feel comfortable openly mocking the church’s...
July 23, 2018
Time is, we know from philosophy, theology, and physics, something of an illusion. This is...
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