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June 2013

June 01, 2013

Lutheran Pride

June is LGBT Pride Month and so it’s a particularly good time to celebrate the...

May 2013

May 30, 2013

The Women Who Stayed

The stabbing of British soldier Lee Rigby in the middle of the afternoon on a...

May 03, 2013

April 2013

April 23, 2013

“Why Guys Throw Bombs”

In an interview this week with National Public Radio, Mohamed Elibiary described the kind of...

April 17, 2013

Interfaith Action: Faiths Against Hate

The Council that convenes the Parliament of the World’s Religions issued an interfaith call for...

April 12, 2013

What’s Really Being Ignored in the Gosnell Case?

The case of Kermit Gosnell became the Friday faux-news-frenzy of the day. Irin Carmon over...

April 09, 2013

Equal Pay Today! (for last year anyway …)

Congrats, ladies! We did it! As of today, we’ve worked long enough into the new...

April 02, 2013

Red Logo Resistance: Homonationalism & the HRC

I did it. You probably did it. Everyone was doing it. Changing their profile picture...

March 2013

March 27, 2013

Even If He’s Not Your Son, He’s Still Human

It shouldn’t take a gay son to convince a senator to support marriage equality. Like...

March 18, 2013

What Sexual Terrorism Looks Like

This is part of an opinion piece I wrote for my local newspaper, the Jacksonville...

March 05, 2013

A Prayer for Women’s History Month

As President Barack Obama officially proclaimed last week, March is women’s history month in the...

February 2013

February 28, 2013

Black History is Now, part three

This is my third and final post related to our national observation of Black History...

February 22, 2013

Christian Is as Christian Does

My colleague and fellow participant in the Faith and Reproductive Justice Leadership Institute at The...

February 18, 2013

Conscience & Change

Mary Hunt makes some fantastic points in her reflection on the resignation announcement of Pope...

February 11, 2013

Interfaithing Lutherans

The headlines refer to Rev. Rob Morris as a Lutheran pastor reprimanded by his denomination...

February 05, 2013

BREAKING: Fierce Women Freak Out Conservatives

Leave it to Kathryn Jean Lopez at The National Review to lead the slut-shaming of...

February 04, 2013

January 2013

January 28, 2013

Seneca Falls. Selma. Stonewall :: The Basics

Unless you’ve actively studied the gay rights movement in the U.S., it might be possible...

January 24, 2013

Guns & Religion

During the 2008 election, Barack Obama took a lot of criticism for comments he made...

January 22, 2013

My Story: ‘Growing Up With Roe’

We're both over 40 now. I got there a little over a year ago. And...

January 18, 2013

Roe at 40: Racial & Ethnic Inequalities

On January 22, 2013, the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that nationally legalized abortion...

January 17, 2013

Imagining a Different Inaugural Benediction

You may or may not have been following the controversy around President Obama’s first choice...

January 16, 2013

Progress, Faith & Reproductive Justice as Roe Turns 40

For the past year I have been privileged to be part of the Faith and...

January 15, 2013

Roe at 40: Poverty

On January 22, 2013, the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that nationally legalized abortion...

January 14, 2013

This Professor’s ‘Month Off’

It happens with some regularity: Someone proclaims that college and university professors have easy jobs,...

January 12, 2013

Roe at 40: Barriers to Abortion Access

On January 22, 2013, the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that nationally legalized abortion...

January 11, 2013

Marriage Equality in the Nation’s Cathedral

As noted this week on the website for the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation,...

January 10, 2013

Roe at 40: U.S. Women

On January 22, 2013, the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that nationally legalized abortion...

January 09, 2013

If Not Less, More

I know there are a lot of good reasons to have less religion in the...