Sunday, May 29, 2016

Another Footnote to Discussion of Role of Women in Early Christian Rome: Patricia Miller on Stepped-Up Exodus of Women (Especially Catholic Ones) from Church Life

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#AChurchForOurDaughters https://t.co/frMLqsvLU8 pic.twitter.com/Q3OPZ2soGH — WomensOrdinationConf (@OrdainWomen) May 18, 2016 Ano...
Saturday, May 28, 2016

Footnote to Discussion of Role of Women in Early Christian Rome: Women Priests Project's Rome Poster Campaign Challenges Ban on Women's Ordination

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#Rome poster campaign challenges Catholic ban on female priests #ordainwomen https://t.co/Bn5sncka4j — WomensOrdinationConf (@OrdainWom...
Friday, May 27, 2016

Nicola Denzey's The Bone Gatherers: The Lost Worlds of Early Christian Women — Book Notes

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My last posting was, in some respects, a piece of historiographical commentary. It was a meditation of sorts on how historians might...
Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Unearthing Hidden LGBTQ Stories in Family History Research: The Mirror That Reflects Nothing Back

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A warning before you dive in: this is one of those postings about one of my particular interests, tracking family history. And so it ...

Jennifer Haselberger: "The Philosophy, the Ideology, Has Always Been to Protect the Assets of the Church" — Not to Respond with Pastoral Concern

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As abuse survivors in Minnesota charge that the archdiocese of St. Paul-Minneapolis is shielding millions of dollars of assets in a ba...
Monday, May 23, 2016

Quote for Day: "Liberal Christians Often Pay Lip Service to Many Politically Radical Christian Thinkers and Activists While Lining Up Behind the Political and Economic Forces That They Fought Against"

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At Religion Dispatches , Daniel José Camacho responds to a recent article at the same venue by Ruth Graham which argues that liberal...

Commentary on the Bathroom Wars (and the Role of Religious Folks in Them): "Fighting Over Bathrooms Is the Oldest Move in the Prejudice Playbook"

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More commentary for you from the last several days, as a new work week begins: these pieces focus, for the most part, on the current ...