As a young(ish), politically progressive Catholic, finding places where my deep love for tradition and desire for Spirit-led reform coexist peacefully is difficult. Unexpectedly, I found a space for this on TikTok at the HippieCatholic, a.k.a. Kassidy Beane....
Supreme Court justice Samuel Alito’s draft ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, leaked and published on May 2 in Politico, would abolish the federal right to abortion for 175 million women in all states and US territories, overturning the landmark Roe v. Wade decision in 1973 that recognized abortion as a constitutional right....
A new Interior Department report on the legacy of boarding schools for Native Americans underscores how closely the U.S. government collaborated with churches to Christianize them as part of a project to sever them from their culture, their identities and ultimately their land....
“You can no longer pretend to support life and vote Democrat. Period,” former Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee member Rod Martin tweeted yesterday after Senate Democrats forced a vote in an attempt to codify the right to an abortion into federal law....
Anecdotally, clergy have talked about the disruption in worship attendance in this pandemic age. Now, Southern Baptists have statistics to prove it. The average in-person weekly attendance at Southern Baptist Convention churches declined 18.75%, from 4,439,797 in 2020 to 3,607,530 in 2021....
We meet at “The Gift” a few minutes after high noon on a sunny spring afternoon. Though our feet are planted in Iowa soil, our hearts and minds had been transported back in time five hundred years....
A recent report from the Public Religion Research Institute that was released on March 17th showed that people of faith in the United States support LGBTQIA+ protection laws at a higher rate than the national average....
Actor Chad Michael Murray of One Tree Hill fame recently shared that he has turned down a number of projects over the years that were incompatible with his religious beliefs....
Do women in your church know their lives, bodies and minds are sacred and valued? Are there safe and confidential spaces in your church for women to express grief or confusion and receive pastoral care?...
You must have a sense of humor to talk about being Baptist these days, with all the craziness associated with the word and with many Baptists today who are a contradiction to what “Baptist” has meant through the centuries....
The United Nations has warned that the war in Ukraine could create “the biggest refugee crisis this century,” with displaced persons numbering in the millions. Meanwhile, the rest of the world sits watching the war on screens, which can promote empathy but also can lead to helplessness and distress....
I grew up in the “thick” of white American evangelicalism in the 1950s through the 1970s. It did NOT include Southern Baptists who, although geographically present, generally declined to participate in evangelical cooperative programs or events....
If you were compiling a list of novels banned for being dangerous and encouraging dissent, Lucy Maud Montgomery’s charming children’s classic Anne of Green Gables might not seem an obvious choice....
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