Showing posts with label religion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label religion. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 3, 2021

Ruth Krall, "Persephone’s Journey into the Underworld: Lessons for Our Time"

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Ancient portrayal of Demeter and Persephone, Apulian red-figure loutrophoro, ca. 4th century BCE, from the J. Paul Getty Museum, at the Theo...
Friday, November 6, 2020

Snapshots of Intersection of Religion and Politics, American Style, as Indicators Point to Biden Win

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Moi on Twitter, pointing to an AP Report by Elana Schor and David Crary, 6 November On this day when the worm may be turning (if at sloth...
Friday, April 24, 2020

A Valuable Opportunity Tomorrow, April 25: "American Heretics: The Politics of the Gospel" — "In Oklahoma, You Can Be a Democrat or You Can Be a Christian. But You Can't Be Both"

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In Oklahoma, you can be a Democrat or you can be a Christian. But you can't be both.   ~ Rev. Robin Meyers, Mayflower United Church ...
Tuesday, October 8, 2019

Jeff Chu on Meeting the Woman Who Fired Him Because He Was Gay: Valuable Twitter Thread for #RiseUpOct8

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The US Supreme Court will hear arguments this week on whether LGBTQ people are protected by existing anti-discrimination law. I've bee...
Wednesday, July 3, 2019

Ruth Krall, Looking Slant: Oppressive Ideologies and Belief Systems

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Ebola: Transporting a Sick Child to a Care Facility (1) The essay by Ruth Krall that follows below is the fourth in a series of essays...
Thursday, June 20, 2019

Ruth Krall, Religious Leader Sexual Abuse — What Language Shall We Use?

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Citrus Trees Ready for Harvest (1) This essay is the third in a series Ruth Krall has written with the title "Recapitulation: ...
Thursday, June 13, 2019

Ruth Krall, Religious Leader Sexual Abuse: A Pan-Denominational Approach

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Transferring an Ebola Patient for Transport to a Care Facility   I recently had the privilege of publishing an essay by Ruth Krall ...
Friday, April 26, 2019

Ruth Krall, "In a Roman Catholic Voice: Clergy and Religious Leader Sexual Abuse of the Laity — A Study Bibliography of Resources" (2)

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As I stated yesterday in introducing this two-part posting in which Ruth Krall offers us a valuable new resource for studying sexua...
Tuesday, April 2, 2019

Miriam Toews' Irma Voth and Tara Westover's Educated: On Patriarchal Religion and Misogynistic Violence

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It's by accident — or synchronicity — that I happen to have read Miriam Toews' novel Irma Voth  at the same time that I'm...
Thursday, March 22, 2018

Police Shooting of Stephon Clark and Exoneration of Mark Anthony Conditt: Two Stories We Need to Read Side by Side

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Again, how the police chief talks about a young white man who terrorizes a city. Remember how they talked about innocent Black children li...
Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Religion and Poltics in News: From Passion of Southern Christians to Walk-Out in Italian Catholic Parish

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Because of the intersection of Jewish Passover and Christian Holy Week, the news is chock-full of religion stories and religious commen...
Friday, January 6, 2017

Tired Old "Discussion" of Democrats As Anti-Religious after 2016 Elections: Valuable Recent Commentary

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I've never seen a group of people so happy to do such evil as take healthcare away from 30 million Americans. pic.twitter.com/kJJv5vdT...
Friday, December 2, 2016

#NotNormal: Choosing Normalcy As the Not-Normal Prevails

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This is what the end of democracy looks like pic.twitter.com/MmnUHE56AE — CJ Werleman (@cjwerleman) December 1, 2016 In what is be...
Wednesday, August 24, 2016

On Wrecking of Online Conversation Spaces by Trolls: Recent Commentary

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Because I happen to have run across two very good pieces of commentary in the past day or so, about how trolls are trashing open di...