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2013-02-12T10:21:16-07:00

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Black History is Now

Last updated on: February 12, 2013 at 10:21 am By Caryn Riswold

Over at SoulRevision, Kim Moore is taking a new angle on the standard Black History Month profiles: During Black History Month we spend a lot of time talking about our wonderful black pioneers of the past (MLK, Malcolm X, W.E.B. Du Bois etc), and the paths they’ve paved for us and how they’ve helped shape our future. However, I believe in progression and I feel it’s time that we start talking about what WE are doing, what WE can do and how WE can work... Read more

2013-02-10T15:20:27-07:00

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Interfaithing Lutherans

Last updated on: February 10, 2013 at 3:20 pm By Caryn Riswold

The headlines refer to Rev. Rob Morris as a Lutheran pastor reprimanded by his denomination for participating in an interfaith prayer service in Newtown, Connecticutt, just after the Sandy Hook massacre. ‘MISSOURI-SYNOD LUTHERAN!’ … I want to holler every time I see it. After I stop hollering, I want to point out that a similar thing happened to Rev. David Benke, who was for participating in the national interfaith service at Yankee Stadium after September 11, 2001. And then I... Read more

2013-02-07T10:10:30-07:00

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Because God Said: Farmers, Myth & Truth

Last updated on: February 7, 2013 at 10:10 am By Caryn Riswold

Just hearing Paul Harvey’s voice during the Super Bowl commercial featuring his words from a speech to the Future Farmers of America in 1978 was enough to conjure up my seven-year old self, peanut butter & jelly sandwich and Pringles potato chips at the kitchen table as quirky stories and “the rest of the story” were told from the black vinyl two-dialed AM radio tucked on the back of the gold specked formica countertop. Coupled with the gray-toned images of... Read more

2013-02-05T10:41:17-07:00

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When Pants Are Political

Last updated on: February 5, 2013 at 10:41 am By Caryn Riswold

Did you miss the Mormon feminist day of action in December? It was a small and significant moment for women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Wearing pants. To church. On a Sunday. Joanna Brooks explained in a piece at The Huffington Post on December 14: Mind you, wearing pants to church is not against the Mormon religion. Nowhere does LDS Scripture or church policy command Sunday dresses for women. In fact, since Wear Pants to Church... Read more

2013-02-05T10:02:44-07:00

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BREAKING: Fierce Women Freak Out Conservatives

Last updated on: February 5, 2013 at 10:02 am By Caryn Riswold

Leave it to Kathryn Jean Lopez at The National Review to lead the slut-shaming of a successful hetero-married mother of a daughter: I don’t want to linger on this, but last night’s Super Bowl half-time show was ridiculous — and gratuitously so. Watching Twitter, it was really no surprise that men made comments about stripper poles and putting dollar bills through their TV sets, was it? Why can’t we have a national entertainment moment that does not include a mother... Read more

2013-02-03T13:01:26-07:00

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Guns & Religion, part two: Praying for a Gun?

Last updated on: January 31, 2013 at 10:05 am By Caryn Riswold

“Too many children are dying. Too many children,” [Gabrielle] Giffords almost whispered, speaking slowly and with difficulty the eight most important words that anyone would utter during the entire four-hour hearing.” That was in Washington, D.C., at the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing on gun violence, on January 30, 2013. A teenage girl who performed at President Obama’s inauguration with her high school band earlier this month was shot to death Tuesday afternoon at a Chicago park, CBS Chicago reports. Police said 15-year-old... Read more

2013-01-29T10:29:53-07:00

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Honorable Mention: ‘Who Is the Church?’

Last updated on: January 29, 2013 at 10:29 am By Caryn Riswold

I’m excited to get my hands on a copy of a new book coming out soon by my friend and colleague Rev. Dr. Cheryl M. Peterson. Cheryl teaches at Trinity Lutheran Seminary in Columbus, Ohio, and is one of the best connecters-of-people I have ever hung out with. Really, if you ever get a chance to go to a reception with Cheryl, she will know which other people in that room you should get to know, and she will make... Read more

2013-01-29T14:34:27-07:00

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Women in Combat? ‘When Harry Met Sally’ edition

Last updated on: January 29, 2013 at 2:34 pm By Caryn Riswold

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Women’s War Daily – Military Brohesion www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog The Daily Show on Facebook Kingsley Browne: “It’s not clear that men can actually bond with women in the way they bond with other men.” Samantha Bee: “So women can disrupt bromance in combat zones?” Kingsley Browne: “Almost by definition.” Sound familiar? Probably because Nora Ephron wrote it in 1989: Harry:... Read more

2013-01-29T09:25:48-07:00

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Justice, Compassion, Conscience & ‘Biblical Values’

Last updated on: January 29, 2013 at 9:25 am By Caryn Riswold

Whenever someone claims to be talking about biblical values, they’re likely just telling you about their own personal values. But the truth about what the bible does and doesn’t talk about is often inconvenient for the anti-choice crowd. Here’s what Rev. Matthew Westfox said last week: “Choice” is not often thought of as a biblical value, and while the Bible affirms the value of sacred conscience—particularly for women regarding their own reproductive lives— the word abortion never appears in scripture.... Read more

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