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2018-06-22T00:01:03-04:00

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Some Dead White Males on the Topic of “Not Taking Sides”

Last updated on: June 22, 2018 at 12:01 am By Rebecca Bratten Weiss

Whatever you are, this is one of those times in history in which refusing to take a stand gets one lumped in, not with an Aristotelian “golden mean,” but with Dante’s too-bland-even-for-hell-to-want. Read more

2018-06-15T11:44:32-04:00

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Legality is Not Morality: We Need To Protect Families

Last updated on: June 15, 2018 at 11:44 am By Rebecca Bratten Weiss

It doesn’t matter if they are coming here illegally or not. Legality is not morality. The history of humanity is a history of immoral laws Read more

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2018-06-12T12:25:58-04:00

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White Folks Need to Watch Black Panther

Last updated on: June 12, 2018 at 12:25 pm By Rebecca Bratten Weiss

We love racial justice stories when we get to swoop in and save everyone, but a lot of white folks get uncomfortable when conversations about race issues don’t let us be the leads. Read more

2018-06-12T12:00:27-04:00

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The Western Canon, Incels, and a Problem with Pedagogy

Last updated on: June 12, 2018 at 12:00 pm By Rebecca Bratten Weiss

How many professors at the kind of schools that emphasize the canon are willing to look at the canon as it’s been shaped by voices from the margins? How many are willing to deconstruct the fantasies? Read more

2018-06-07T22:51:37-04:00

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Flowers For Virginia: A Visit to Monk’s House

Last updated on: June 7, 2018 at 10:51 pm By Rebecca Bratten Weiss

We’d spent the day in places haunted by ghosts, ghosts who comfort us, with their words from decades past, ghosts who fought for us before we were born, and it seems we should try to fight for them now, too, in our turn. Read more

2018-06-06T23:00:14-04:00

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No, #MeToo is Not the Fault of the Sexual Revolution

Last updated on: June 6, 2018 at 11:00 pm By Rebecca Bratten Weiss

It’s a poor argument that contraception is bad because it will lead to the objectification of women, because women were already objectified - in marriage, and the expectations of childbearing. Read more

2018-06-04T13:54:38-04:00

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Intelligent Catholics Need to Stop Taking Far-Right Reactionaries Seriously

Last updated on: June 4, 2018 at 1:54 pm By Rebecca Bratten Weiss

We should regard them as theological equivalents of flat-earthers. Read more

2018-05-30T20:00:56-04:00

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The Stories Our Bodies Tell: Beyond the Theology of the Singular Body

Last updated on: May 30, 2018 at 8:00 pm By Rebecca Bratten Weiss

Defining women via receptivity means bracketing out whole categories of deeply personal, bodily, spiritual, and intellectual activity, bracketing out even most of our reproductive biology. Read more

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2018-05-22T00:05:09-04:00

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“Don’t Talk Politics!” – A Privilege That Perpetuates Injustice

Last updated on: May 22, 2018 at 12:05 am By Rebecca Bratten Weiss

The price of justice for the oppressed is set so low, it is valued less than a moment’s comfort for the powerful. Read more

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2018-05-17T13:56:28-04:00

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“I’ll Eat You Up, I Love You So”: Religion Where The Wild Things Are

Last updated on: May 17, 2018 at 1:56 pm By Rebecca Bratten Weiss

There’s a long tradition of Catholics being accused of cannibalism, eating our own God, and of morbidity, collecting dried fingers and shriveled hearts, building chapels out of bones of dead monks Read more

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