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Mary! (1)
So I’ve finally worked my way through approximately 1,000 pages of reading about Mary (why, why, did I feel that doing a PhD was a good thing?), and I’ve got some knowledge to drop, if you are...
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Breast Cancer and Structural Racism
As Dr. David Ansell of Rush University Medical Center in Chicago explains, black women are significantly more likely than white women to die from breast cancer. The gap is so dramatic that in Chicago,...
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What Are We Doing In Libya?
If your 8 year old daughter’s principal announced that she was implementing a bold new anti-bullying policy aimed at protecting her students from being victims of harassment and violence, you would...
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The 43rd Anniversary of MLK, Jr.’s Assassination
“Amen, I say to you, no prophet is accepted in his native place.” Luke 4:28 It is easy to forget that, at the time of his assassination, Martin Luther King, Jr. was not a beloved figure. He was...
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Does God Bless the USA?
United Statesians have always claimed to live in a nation blessed by God–white Americans interpreted the near complete destruction of certain Native American communities by smallpox as a sign of God’s...
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What the War on Drugs and the War on Terror Have In Common
What does it say about us as a nation when even the killing of sleeping children is incapable of making us change our course? As Amy Davidson of the New Yorker reports, U.S. led NATO forces have killed...
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Rowan Williams, Teresa of Avila, and An Easter Spirituality
Easter is upon us, and I’ve been thinking about this passage from Romans: We know that the whole creation has been groaning in labor pains until now; and not only the creation, but we ourselves, who...
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