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Worldwide Abortion Down – Contraception Use Up
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Paul Raushenbush
When contraception use goes up, abortions go down. That is the not so surprising findings in the report Abortion Worldwide: A Decade of Uneven Progress on the declining number of world wide abortions coming out of the Guttmacher Institute this week. As the Christian Science Monitor Reported: Contraceptive use is up worldwide, and with that has come a decline in…
Dear President Obama: Stop the War in Afghanistan
By
Brian McLaren
I am a loyal supporter of your presidency. I worked hard in the campaign and have never been as proud of my country as I was when we elected you. I’m writing to ask you to find another way ahead in Afghanistan. I wrote a similar letter to President Bush when he was preparing for…
Religious Voices for Gay Rights at the National Equality March
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guestblogger
Timothy Palmer is the Director of Communication and Outreach at the Religious Institute: Faith Voices on Sexuality and Religion People of faith will be conspicuous at the National Equality March in Washington this weekend. I don’t remember hearing religious voices at my first March on Washington in 1993, so I consider this a sign of progress. But no matter how many…
The Power of Words: President Obama Receives the Nobel Peace Prize
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Paul Raushenbush
Afghanistan, the Olympics, the Dalai Lama…in a week when the President was domestically burdened by several international quagmiers or miscues, the Nobel Committee awards Barack Obama the Peace Prize. According to the New York Times: The Nobel Committee announced in Oslo that it has awarded the annual peace prize to Barack Obama, just nine months into his…
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