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The first time I was pregnant, I loved it. Even though we were living in Rome in 95 degree heat with no air conditioner. Even though I had a headache every day. Even though Italians don’t seem to believe in maternity clothes. I loved the way my body expanded. I loved looking, feeling, being pregnant.…

TIME’s cover article this week, “Afghan Women and the Return of the Taliban,” quotes an official who talks about the Afghan government’s willingness to concede women’s rights in exchange for a truce of sorts with the Taliban. According to Tom Malinowski, the Washington advocacy director for Human Rights Watch, Afghan President Hamid Karzai, “essentially asked…

The older I’ve gotten, the scarier the word sin has become. Some of that has been my growing understanding that this Christian concept of sin is a complicated one. But some of my fear over the word sin is because I just don’t like the idea that I, and everyone else I know, are in…

Krista Tippett, host of “Speaking of Faith” has an article (“My Grandfather’s Faith“) in this month’s Christian Century. She writes, “For whether or not Muslims will go to heaven remains a real question in Southern Baptist belief and many other forms of Christianity. But in a place just as doctrinaire, compassion for the stranger, the…
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