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2017-05-30T23:12:04-04:00

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Abortion: the Most Important Moral Issue Ever….Except for When it’s Not

Last updated on: May 30, 2017 at 11:12 pm By Rebecca Bratten Weiss

Let that sink in. A young woman in a crisis pregnancy chose life, but Christians are making her wish she’d chosen abortion. Read more

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2018-02-13T00:31:09-04:00

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What is Happening to Our Universities?

Last updated on: February 13, 2018 at 12:31 am By Rebecca Bratten Weiss

Will Catholic universities step forward and reclaim this tradition which is uniquely our own? Read more

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University of St. Thomas

2017-11-09T11:17:20-04:00

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When You Say You’re Not a Racist

Last updated on: November 9, 2017 at 11:17 am By Rebecca Bratten Weiss

White people hate being accused of racism. When topics of racism come up, among White persons, how quickly the conversation turns to affront at having anyone judge them as racist. Read more

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2017-05-18T16:57:19-04:00

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the cultural ambiguity in our honoring of mothers

Last updated on: May 18, 2017 at 4:57 pm By Rebecca Bratten Weiss

What is amiss is that we are not honoring women in their many, varied capabilities - one of which is motherhood - but instead placing on a pedestal an abstract feminine ideal that has little to do with messy lived reality. Read more

2017-05-11T12:25:42-04:00

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the power of negative thinking

Last updated on: May 11, 2017 at 12:25 pm By Rebecca Bratten Weiss

Convenient amnesia about one’s own past failures: drop-outs, firings, unplanned pregnancies, delinquencies? Never happened. Mind wipe. Read more

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2017-05-08T01:34:14-04:00

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how not to be pro-life: a quick overview

Last updated on: May 8, 2017 at 1:34 am By Rebecca Bratten Weiss

Tell parents of disabled children to start a GoFundMe, or maybe a bake sale! It's not our job to care for those who can't contribute to society. Read more

2017-05-05T11:52:04-04:00

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Women As “Gatekeepers of Morality”: A Recipe for Abuse

Last updated on: May 5, 2017 at 11:52 am By Rebecca Bratten Weiss

Why is it always the women who are expected to reform the men? Read more

2017-04-27T13:14:44-04:00

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my other problem with the “Benedict Option”

Last updated on: April 27, 2017 at 1:14 pm By Rebecca Bratten Weiss

If students are being proselytized and shielded from any alternative views, they will not acquire the ability to make their own moral judgments, but will continue to operate within a condition of heteronomy, simply repeating what they have been told - as long as it seems to work. Read more

2017-05-01T00:17:07-04:00

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When Christian Women Tell You What We Hear

Last updated on: May 1, 2017 at 12:17 am By Rebecca Bratten Weiss

"A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle" is taken as an unbearable affront, but I'm supposed to read all the nasty or denigrating things that significant male thinkers - even saints - have said about me, over the ages, and just shrug it off? Read more

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2017-04-19T22:27:00-04:00

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who’s listening when we talk about abortion?

Last updated on: April 19, 2017 at 10:27 pm By Rebecca Bratten Weiss

You see what the woman is running towards. You don’t see what she’s running from. Read more

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