All posts tagged "religion"
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Xavier University Kicks Employees Off Contraception Coverage
The fallout from the Catholic Bishops’ crusade against contraception continues as Xavier University announced it was discontinuing birth-control insurance coverage for its employees effective July...
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Perp Walk for the Pope
Last September, Barbara Blaine, president of the Survivor’s Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP), teamed with the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) to persuade the International Criminal Court...
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A Biblical Scholar Rebuts the Claims Made in the Eddie Long Coronation Video
By Wil Gafney I am writing this response to a YouTube video circulating widely on the internet in which Eddie Long, the troubled pastor of...
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Video: Today TFW salutes Martin Luther King, Jr.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlvEiBRgp2M&feature=related We (still) have miles to go before we sleep~TFW Collective
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The GOP’s Christian Nationalist Faith Pimps
In American politics, patriotism, race-baiting, and faith-based pandering are the last refuge of a scoundrel. And this political season militant GOP appeals to white Christian...
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HHS’s birth-control rules intrude on Catholic values
Catholic University President John Garvey wrote in The Washington Post that new federal regulations requiring employers to provide no-cost prescription birth control as part of their health...
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Mitt Romney's Evolving Attitude Toward Women
By Amanda Winkler Women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are speaking out about GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s attitude toward women, asserting...
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Good and Proper Affect in a Broken World: Heartbrokenness as Feminist Practice
On the night Troy Davis was murdered by the state of Georgia, I watched a girl, who appeared to be about twelve years old, cry....
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Tamar and Troy, or, When Can We Cry?
By Ashon Crawley But when brought them near to eat, he took hold of her, and said to her, “Come, lie with me,...
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Beyond The Sacrificial Good Woman: Black Feminism and Freethought
By Sikivu Hutchinson In the 1997 film The Apostle, Robert Duvall plays a white Southern Christian fundamentalist preacher and murderer on the lam and seeking...
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Resurrecting the Great Mother
By Rev. Sheri Heller, LCSW “I found god in myself and I loved her /I loved her fiercely.” – Ntozake Shange We come into this world...
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A Prophet in Exile: A Personal Meditation on James Baldwin
By Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou After the re-election of George W. Bush, I was done with America. Less than a year into Bush’s second term, I...
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Queering Democracy and Christianity
By Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou A few years ago, I interviewed to serve as the Senior Minister of a church in the Bronx. I was...
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Eddie Long, Creflo Dollar, and the Black Church's Sanctioning of Sexual Violence
In September 2010 Bishop Eddie Long, prominent Atlanta pastor of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, was accused of sexual improprieties with four young men—Anthony Flagg, Spencer...
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Gay and Transgender Prophets—Telling the Truth
By T.J. Williams In recent years I have committed myself to the work of justice that speaks loudly and boldly to proclaim that God is...
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An Endorsement Against Church Bigotry and The Injustice of ¶ 304.3
What better time to stand in solidarity with those called to religious institutions, yet marginalized due to structural bigotry, than what is interpreted by many...
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Special Message from the Editors: Welcome, Dr. Tamura Lomax
The Feminist Wire is proud to welcome Dr. Tamura Lomax aboard! Congratulations to Tamura for a brilliantly successful dissertation defense at Vanderbilt University on Monday,...
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Where Are the Radicals?: Islam(ophobia) and Black Urban Politics
By Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman Who is it that said the more things change, the more they stay the same? If the last decade is any harbinger...