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November 2012

November 06, 2012

Election Day 2012 Round-Up

Finally! Time to vote (if you aren’t among the very many who have done so...

November 05, 2012

October 2012

October 31, 2012

Happy Reformation Day!

Just for fun, on this day that Protestants (oh who are we kidding, it’s mostly...

October 29, 2012

Honorable Mention: Sex, Gender, and Christianity

Should women be priests? Should women submit to their husbands? Is premarital sex okay? These...

October 28, 2012

Pro-Choice & Pro-Prayer

This resource is provided again this week for all those women and men out there...

October 26, 2012

Just Watch Rachel Held Evans

Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy One of...

October 25, 2012

If Only Mourdock Were Rare

I wish that what Indiana GOP Senate candidate Richard Mourdock said this week, that pregnancy...

October 24, 2012

Poverty & Our Shared Humanity

What are the key issues for people of your tradition to consider as they approach...

October 23, 2012

Honorable Mention: Justice for Women

The denomination to which I belong, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, has a constitutional...

October 21, 2012

Reproductive Justice & Prayer

As the election comes closer, and as voting is underway in many places, I...

October 19, 2012

Honorable Mention: The Lilly Fellows Program

This week, I’m at the Lilly Fellows Program National Network Conference at the University of...

October 18, 2012

Presidential Faith: When Difference Matters

Does a candidate’s faith matter? Judging from voters in recent years, and in the 2012...

October 17, 2012

The Many Gifts of Faitheist

Chris Stedman has written the book I didn’t know I needed to read after finishing...

October 16, 2012

When the Personal Becomes Political

I wrote about the religious element of Joe Biden’s response to Martha Raddatz’s question about...

October 15, 2012

Race Still Matters. Religion … Maybe.

Results of the Millennial Values and Voter Engagement survey released by the Public Religion Research...

October 14, 2012

Pro-Choice Prayer Is About Justice

This is the third set of prayers for women, men, and families seeking reproductive justice....

October 12, 2012

Joe Biden, Catholic for Choice

In the words of Vice President Joe Biden, from the transcript of the 10/11/12 Vice...

October 11, 2012

The Myth of Male Religious Power?

Stephanie Coontz is spot-on in her analysis of “The Myth of Male Decline” in the...

October 10, 2012

Baptism & Reproductive Justice. Really.

Today is the second anniversary of Owen’s baptism. Last year on this day, over at...

October 09, 2012

Religious Freedom Is For Everyone

What’s wrong – and right – with the role of faith in American politics today? ...

October 08, 2012

Another Week in Pro-Choice Prayer

This week, I continue the series that was begun last week, much to the dismay...

October 04, 2012

Getting Theological: The Bible

If you’ve been reading the series of posts in which I “get theological,” then you...

October 03, 2012

Debate Bingo With AAUW, Amnesty USA, & RCRC

Three of my favorite organizations have challenged us all to Presidential Debate Bingo ... to...

October 02, 2012

This Week in Pro-Choice Prayer

40 Days of Prayer to Stop the War on Women is a campaign by Faith...

October 01, 2012

Vote Wrong & Go To Hell?

On September 23, Bishop Thomas Paprocki of the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois issued a...

September 2012

September 27, 2012

An Open Letter to Illinois Pharmacists

Who do you think you are? Your religion does not trump mine. If you have...

September 27, 2012

Getting Theological: Church

Theologizing about church is, for me, sort of like theorizing about family. Something to be...

September 26, 2012

Did Jesus Have A Wife? I Hope So

Two things I love about this moment: 1: That a presentation at an academic conferences...

September 24, 2012

47 Percent: It’s About Us

Of the many analyses of the 47% of Americans who are dependent on government programs...