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The Adoption Commandment

Posted on April 22, 2011 · Add Comment

New story at The Nation:

In late March Craig Juntunen told a group of Christian adoption advocates assembled at a Chandler, Arizona, home about his plans to increase international adoptions fivefold. Just over a year before, the world had been riveted by the saga of Laura Silsby, the American missionary arrested [...]

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The Clinic Across the Street

Posted on March 15, 2011 · Add Comment

New story at Ms. magazine:

The deceptive tactics of many of the country’s CPCs— which are estimated to total between 2,300 and 4,000 centers nationwide—have been well-documented: They often mislead women about whether they perform abortions, mimicking the style or names of abortion clinics and operating in close proximity to them. Some provide misinformation about [...]

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Sex Abuse in the Catholic Church When Adults Are Victims

Posted on January 24, 2011 · Add Comment

New story up at Religion Dispatches:

This week an Irish broadcaster revealed a Vatican letter from 1997 that appears to advise bishops to withhold priest sex abuse allegations from the police. The letter, written in response to Irish bishops’ policy of “mandatory reporting” and leaked by an Irish bishop, has been [...]

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I Am Biblical Woman, Hear Me Roar?

Posted on November 23, 2010 · Add Comment

New post at Ms.:

Last week, The New York Times Magazine ran a feature article on “biblical womanhood,” a subject I wrote about extensively in my 2009 book, Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement.

In the far-right evangelical communities I reported on, “biblical womanhood” guidelines aimed to create a new evangelical, anti-feminist Renaissance [...]

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At Claremont Institute, Christine O’Donnell Was Taught ABCs of Homophobia

Posted on October 12, 2010 · Add Comment

New story at The Nation.com:

In the past few weeks, Delaware Congressional candidate Christine O’Donnell has come under ridicule for seeming embellishments to her résumé. A CV posted on the networking site LinkedIn transformed a 2001 summer seminar she attended in rented space at Oxford University into a term of study at the [...]

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Can Mormon Glenn Beck Unite the Christian Right?

Posted on September 20, 2010 · Add Comment

New story at Religion Dispatches:

Glenn Beck’s efforts to transform himself from Fox News demagogue into a religious leader for Tea Party America has a lot of commentators discussing the feasibility of a Mormon convert leading a wary evangelical and Catholic right in a faith-driven cause. While there are significant roadblocks hindering Beck’s [...]

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Seeing Is Believing

Posted on July 15, 2010 · Add Comment

New report out with Catholics for Choice (pdf): 

In the early years of the AIDS epidemic, recalls Calle Almedal, a longtime HIV/AIDS advocate, Catholic hospitals and other institutions which were mainly staffed by nuns were the only ones that would treat patients dying of AIDS. From New York City to Uganda, [...]

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Abortion as “Black Genocide”

Posted on April 30, 2010 · Add Comment

New story at The Public Eye:

This February, a highly provocative series of 65 billboards went up around Atlanta, which featured an African American infant and the proclamation, “Black Children Are an Endangered Species.” The signs directed viewers to a website, TooManyAborted.com, created by the Radiance Foundation—a vaguely defined antiabortion and [...]

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An Architect Re-Imagines the Synagogue as Ark, Shelter, Floating Fortress

Posted on April 3, 2010 · Add Comment

New piece up at Religion Dispatches:

The single-dwelling home has long been seen as the consummate test of an architect’s skill. For Jonathan Block Friedman, a theoretical architect and professor at Long Island’s New York Institute of Technology, that test left out buildings designed for community functions: birth, death, and marriage. “Just as [...]

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From Home Birth to Home Abortion

Posted on March 10, 2010 · Add Comment

New story at Slate:

Angie Jackson, the Florida mother now known as the abortion tweeter, isn’t the first woman to try to demystify abortion by talking about her story publicly. Since Romper Room personality Sherri Chessen got a very public abortion in 1962 after taking thalidomide, women have tried to erase the lingering [...]

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