Showing posts with label Kaya Oakes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kaya Oakes. Show all posts
Thursday, March 5, 2020

More on Forgiveness and Clergy Abuse Situation: Kaya Oakes on Need for New Understandings

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finally starting to directly reckon with how white evangelicalism taught 'forgiveness:' what it is, who it serves, how it's o...
Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Patricia Miller on Catholics Driving Exodus of Nones, Kaya Oakes on How Nones Aren't Coming Back — And Why Should They, Considering What the Church Is Offering?

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Two more helpful pieces of commentary on the recently published PRRI report about why Americans (and especially younger ones) are le...
Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: "Instead, We Are Left with the Likes of John Allen and Rocco Palmo Who Are Just Pole Dancers at Bishop Conventions"

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In response to Kaya Oakes's recent article about John Allen's decision to turn to the Knights of Columbus to fund his Crux  ...
Tuesday, March 29, 2016

As Crux Turns to Knights of Columbus for Funding, A Reflection on Catholic Heterosexism and Lack of Solidarity with LGBTQ People Among Heterosexually Privileged "Liberal" Catholics

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Tomorrow's my birthday, but Steve has informed me that the Birthday Rules dictate that one's birthday begins at sundown the d...
Saturday, March 26, 2016

As Easter Nears, I'm Pondering Kaya Oakes's Question, "Is the Catholic Church in America Getting Worse for LGBTQ People and Women?" (My Answer: Yes)

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An open thread for Holy Week: is the Catholic church in America getting worse for LGBTQ people and women? https://t.co/q0KR9LKpfU — kaya ...
Monday, February 29, 2016

"Spotlight" Shines Brighter, Wins Best Feature Oscar!

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Well. This is amazing news to have awakened to this morning. Even as His Eminence Cardinal George Pell was saying the following in Rom...
Wednesday, February 17, 2016

"What Proceeded from There Encapsulated the Vast Reasons Why Women Abandon Organized Religion": Kaya Oakes on What Happened When She Tweeted, "God's Not a Dude"

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Kaya Oakes, The Nones Are Alright: A New Generation of Believers, Seekers, and Those in Between ( Maryknoll, NY: Orbis 2015): 
Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Kaya Oakes on Why Americans May Not Get Pope Francis's Insistence on Mercy: "Racism, Homophobia, Violence"

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What Americans should give up during #Lent : racism, homophobia, violence. Why we fail at mercy, by me. @RDispatches https://t.co/9o8x3r...
Saturday, January 16, 2016

Defining Christianity by Exclusion of LGBT Human Beings: "If This Is the Christianity They Want, Perhaps It Is Time for That Christianity to Die"

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Thinking back this morning to Kaya Oakes's post- Obergefell  essay last November: as she points out, anti-LGBT right-wing Christians...
Thursday, November 12, 2015

Kaya Oakes on How "Whitest, Malest, Straightest, Most Educated" Representatives of Christianity Are Driving People from Religion

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Kaya Oakes, writing yesterday at Religion Dispatches about the battle that Christians opposed to marriage equality have lost:
Thursday, July 2, 2015

Clouds of Witnesses: More Testimony About How Obergefell Affects Real Human Beings and Real Human Lives — The Challenge for Catholics

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Some more testimony for you today: two days ago, I offered you some testimony from my own spot about what Obergefell  and its extens...
Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Vatican. Vatican. Vatican. Women. Women. Women. ("Equal" but Different and Subordinate.)

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This is the image the Vatican chose to represent a conference about women. http://t.co/4l4q7uKalH link via @NCRonline pic.twitter.com/z7l...
Thursday, January 8, 2015

Commentary on Cardinal Burke and the New Emangelization Project

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"Men need to dress and act like men..." -Cardinal Burke, pictured, in an interview http://t.co/uAkzd65VgH pic.twitter.com/BRHsOP...