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Pious and Prochoice?
By
awelborn
The Boston Globe looks at abortion rights activists getting religion. The religious abortion-rights movement, like the antiabortion movement, grounds its understanding of abortion in the Bible. Abortion-rights religious groups point to what they see as a telling silence in Scripture. “Jesus never mentioned abortion," notes Paul Simmons, a Baptist minister and author of the forthcoming…
Shoving Off
By
awelborn
We’ll keep this post flowing with links to stories about the events on a boat in Pittsburgh today, beginning with this WaPo story by Michelle Boorstein. The theological problems are not really dealt with in the story – why the Church would say these are invalid ordinations even if the initial ordinations were carried out…
Miracle of Sharing Alert
By
awelborn
This weekend – your place. Maybe this gets old, but I never fail to be fascinated by it. The Gospel tomorrow is the multiplication of the loaves and the fishes from John, and somewhere, sometime tomorrow, a preacher is going to pause in the midst of his/her sermon/homily and say, "…but the real miracle of…
“Where Ratzinger Was a Swear Word”
By
awelborn
Michael is starting to work on a new book – go read it and, if you have anecdotes to share, help him out.
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