Tag: religion
Bill Baird’s battle for legalized abortion and Roe v. Wade
"This is a religious war,” says Baird of the intense push to make abortion illegal.“
‘Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.’
We simply cannot forgive those who are doing to our world what we see happening right now.
Supreme Court blocks New York’s restrictions on religion amid COVID-19
The Supreme Court's majority ruled that "even in a pandemic, the Constitution cannot be put away and forgotten."
‘Attacking the very foundations’ of church-state separation, SCOTUS delivers ‘seismic shock’...
"A State need not subsidize private education. But once a State decides to do so, it cannot disqualify some private schools solely because they are religious."
Which shall we have: Love or greed?
The United States supposes itself to be a Christian community. Such a community should focus on love rather than wealth and power. Shouldn’t it?
Ayatollah Trump: The global rise of the Christian right
Islamic extremism gets all the press, but Trump is just one of a growing number of Christian extremists in positions of political power.
Our ladies of perpetual activism: Nuns for social justice
These sisters believe that their faith calls them to create a more just world.
Interfaith solidarity: A Muslim-led crowdfunding campaign raises $120,000 in two days...
"We wish to respond to evil with good, as our faith instructs us, and send a powerful message of compassion through action."
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Fast fashion pollutes the Atacama Desert in Chile
With nearly 60,000 tons of unsold clothes arriving globally from Europe, Asia and North America to the port town of Iquique, about 39,000 tons of fast fashion ends up in the landfill in the desert.
How workers in the South are defying history
The company resisted them. History defied them. Geography worked against them.
The surprising pervasiveness of American arrogance
We Americans are all beneficiaries of exceptionalism, even those of us who decry its corrosive impact.
Among the GOP’s debt ceiling hostages? Social Security payments for oldest Americans
"The choice facing the executive branch is clear: Act or default; act or increase the suffering of millions; act or go into economic tailspin."
Radioactivity: The Women of Three Mile Island
It connects the proverbial dots of the 1979 Three Mile Island nuclear plant disaster—doing so brilliantly.