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2015-10-12T08:00:48-04:00

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An Adventure in Cartography: Approaching College Visits as a Pair of Explorers

Last updated on: October 12, 2015 at 8:00 am By Rebecca Todd Peters

Place matters, and different places feel right to different people for a variety of reasons. Read more

college/higher education

2015-10-07T09:11:17-04:00

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How Capitalism is Destroying Higher Education: Why David Brooks Got it Wrong

Last updated on: October 7, 2015 at 9:11 am By Rebecca Todd Peters

To suggest that when faculty focus on research and teaching that we (or our universities) are not also engaged in moral formation is simply wrong. Read more

college/higher education

2015-10-05T09:53:56-04:00

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Why K-Cups Are Going To Kill Us

Last updated on: October 5, 2015 at 9:53 am By Rebecca Todd Peters

But really, its not K-Cups, per se, that are the problem. The problem is much deeper. Read more

2015-09-28T07:57:39-04:00

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Documenting the Undocumented: How ID Programs Improve Community

Last updated on: September 28, 2015 at 7:57 am By Rebecca Todd Peters

It is difficult to keep your community safe if undocumented community members are afraid of the police. When people are afraid of the police, they aren’t likely to reach out to them to when they see crimes being committed in their neighborhoods, if they are victims of domestic abuse, or if they are being mistreated by their own employers. Read more

2015-09-23T08:21:21-04:00

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Protestant Pope Envy

Last updated on: September 23, 2015 at 8:21 am By Rebecca Todd Peters

As a feminist, I see this difference between our ecclesial structures – the difference between a hierarchy of power and authority and a sharing of power of authority – as one of the most important differences between Catholics and Protestants (of course, the ordination of women ranks pretty high as well!). Read more

2015-09-21T15:09:04-04:00

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I’m Christian, But I’m Not. . .

Last updated on: September 21, 2015 at 3:09 pm By Rebecca Todd Peters

As a Presbyterian minister and a progressive Christian ethicist, when the young people on the video affirmed that they are Christian but not homophobic, perfect, close-minded, unaccepting, uneducated, judgmental, conservative, and ignorant – I found myself cheering “Right on!” Read more

christian ethics

christianity

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2015-09-16T10:17:41-04:00

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What’s a White Christian to Do? Racism, White Privilege, and Stepping Up

Last updated on: September 16, 2015 at 10:17 am By Rebecca Todd Peters

White privilege and racism will not go away until we begin to address these problems head-on. That is what the group of eighteen white Christians I met with on Sunday are beginning to do. To tell their stories of being white. To think about how we have been taught to think about race and to examine our lives, our habits, and the structures of our society to see the ways in which race is embedded in them. Read more

2015-09-23T11:50:56-04:00

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Is a “Fair Trial” possible in a racist society?

Last updated on: September 23, 2015 at 11:50 am By Rebecca Todd Peters

Most of us aren’t trained to think about social problems in a structural way. When we think about racism we think about people who are prejudiced or who act in racist ways. When we talk about structural racism, we have to think about how the structure of our society are shaped by conscious and unconscious cultural prejudices. Read more

2015-09-04T11:02:59-04:00

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Celebrating the Moral Courage of Women Who Have Abortions

Last updated on: September 4, 2015 at 11:02 am By Rebecca Todd Peters

During this media blitz highlighting the Catholic Church’s generosity of absolving women of their “sin of abortion,” I want to celebrate the moral courage of women who have terminated pregnancies as a morally good act in the larger story of a life well-lived, or at least the journey to live the most faithful life possible. Read more

christian ethics

feminism and feminist theology

2015-08-31T11:06:27-04:00

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Bernie Sanders Is Riding the Third Rail

Last updated on: August 31, 2015 at 11:06 am By Rebecca Todd Peters

By standing up for socialism and ideas that have been marked as unpopular and unwinnable, Sanders is reminding us what is at the heart of democracy – engaging thoughtfully in debate about different political ideas. Ideas that are meant to help us solve the problems that we face. Read more

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