Of Course the Virgin Mary Would Trample ICE Queer Catholic artist Libby Kercher depicts Mary trampling a serpent labeled ICE emphasizes Mary's role as the patroness of the oppressed.

"In every age, Christian art has wrestled with power—and in doing so, has revealed the pulse of a living faith."
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What Rachel Held Evans Knew About Not Going to Church “Do I want a church that fits me, or a me that fits the church?” asks the late writer in an excerpt from her new book, ‘Braving the Truth.’

"No one asks anymore, but I was raised to be ready with an answer."
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The Persistence of Flowers This spring season during the pandemic felt like a good time for comparisons that don’t require explanations.

"Stems reminded me I could do hard things, even when life was turned upside down for my children and my students."
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‘The Iron Claw’ Portrays a Tragedy of Faith The Von Erichs were devoted to wrestling and God but neither could save them from their family curse.

"The story of the Von Erichs is a cautionary tale of when God and sports mix in all the wrong ways."
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True Climate Justice Is Impossible Without Racial and Economic Justice The communities who contribute the least to rising greenhouse gas emissions bear the largest burden of climate change.

"This systemic doubling and tripling of oppression due to worsening climate impacts is a global pattern for people of color and income-challenged communities."
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When Leaders Like César Chávez Fall, Abuelitas Remain From King David to the now-disgraced UFW co-founder, patriarchy has served to protect power and obscure harm. But there is another way.

"Those who have always known that movements and flourishing are hardly sustained by power and domination. What carries them forward is care and protection."
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How Many Americans Are Christian Nationalists, Really? A new study of religious nationalism across the globe defines only 6% of Americans as Christian nationalist. Why?

“U.S. adults are more likely than people in any other high-income country surveyed to say the Bible currently has either a great deal or some influence over the laws of their country,” the report reads.
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I Want To Know I Belong, Especially In This Era of Tyrants Love, etymology, orality, and the mystery of God.

"Allowing the silence of God to enfold me tenderly reignites the primal love in which I was first formed — a love that will hold me to the end and beyond, if I let it."
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The University of the Imprisoned Poets as witnesses to the unseen

"for it is time to collect all that is owed us: /
the salt in our wounds, your death, the burning /
heart of dawn, and the innocence"
(Alicia Partnoy)
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The Problem of Poverty in 'The Great Gatsby' Distilled to its core, The Great Gatsby is a story of poorness from the lens of richness, a rags-to-riches story where we only get to see the riches.

Published today 101 years ago, 'The Great Gatsby' portrays "a rags-to-riches story where we only get to see the riches."
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Rosalía’s ‘Lux’ Is a God-Haunted Masterpiece The Spanish music auteur has created pop music’s most substantial engagement with faith in decades.

"A golf ball occupies the Titanic, which fits inside a lipstick case. A thorn occupies a continent, a continent doesn’t fill up God, but God fits inside her chest."
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A ‘Post-Conflict’ Journey Toward Healing An excerpt from I Am Not Your Enemy: Stories to Transform a Divided World.

"Depending on whom you ask, the conflict in Northern Ireland lasted 800 years, 400 years, or 30 years. The Good Friday Agreement officially ended the violence in 1998."
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The God They Preach at the Pentagon It is time to call such characterizations of God what they are: not just bad theology, but the creation of an entirely different deity.

"It is time to call such characterizations of God what they are: not just bad theology, but the creation of an entirely different deity, one who has more in common with the Roman god of war Mars than the God of scripture."
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Yes, There Are Wind Farms in China Meanwhile, U.S. leaders blow hot air.

"I think it's important to finally drive a stake through what may be the most resilient—and incorrect and damaging—right-wing talking point on climate and energy."
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‘The Faithful’ Gives Biblical Women More Voice—But Not More Depth The series emphasizes the strength and agency of the women in the Bible, but is opaque about why we should admire them.

"Are they examples of strong women struggling against the unfair patriarchal system into which they were born, or simply admirable models of obedience and sacrifice for contemporary women to follow?"
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We Don’t Achieve Christian Unity by Avoiding Polarization What if the process of being in conflict is actually the way we faithfully live out Christian unity?

"Do we care enough about our siblings in faith to disagree with them in healthy ways?"
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Trump Has Ushered in a New American Age of Moral Catastrophe The gospel was a rebuke to Roman emperors. It's still a rebuke to would-be emperors today.

"In this time of moral catastrophe, the voice of faith must break through all the diplomatic consternation and political speculation," writes Wesley Granberg-Michaelson.
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Jews Paused Indiana’s Abortion Ban Using Religious Freedom Law The Religious Freedom Restoration Act was signed by Mike Pence in 2015. After Roe fell, Hoosier Jews for Choice saw RFRA as an opening to gain access to reproductive health care.

From @forward.com: “For far too long, it’s been weaponized that religion and abortion can’t coexist, but we know that that’s not the case.”—Shira Zemel, abortion access campaign director at the National Council of Jewish Women
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Her Bishop Apologized. She Wants Accountability for Coerced Adoptions After meeting the Episcopal presiding bishop, an advocate expresses her gratitude and why she’s not done yet.

"Gurtler, who was reunited with her son in 2017, wants to see the church address the pain of people like her, no matter how culpable it finds itself to be."
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Possibilities Possibilities.

"A soldier rests beside a pool of water lilies. /
An abyss becomes a table. /
The loaf and fish re-create their famous miracle."
(Marilyn Robertson, 2003)
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‘The Faithful’ Gives Biblical Women More Voice—But Not More Depth The series emphasizes the strength and agency of the women in the Bible, but is opaque about why we should admire them.

"While 'The Chosen' largely succeeds in creating a living, breathing world around Jesus and the disciples, 'The Faithful' falls short of this goal."
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Trump Has Ushered in a New American Age of Moral Catastrophe The gospel was a rebuke to Roman emperors. It's still a rebuke to would-be emperors today.

"President Donald Trump has been playing Russian roulette with genocide."
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Jews Paused Indiana’s Abortion Ban Using Religious Freedom Law The Religious Freedom Restoration Act was signed by Mike Pence in 2015. After Roe fell, Hoosier Jews for Choice saw RFRA as an opening to gain access to reproductive health care.

Hoosier Jews for Choice saw an opening for Jews to exercise their religious freedom under the same law, but for a purpose at odds with evangelical Christianity: to gain access to abortion, reports @forward.com
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Her Bishop Apologized. She Wants Accountability for Coerced Adoptions After meeting the Episcopal presiding bishop, an advocate expresses her gratitude and why she’s not done yet.

The Episcopal Church is investigating its involvement in coerced adoptions.
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Lessons From a Local Political Campaign Rebuilding our social infrastructure will take some old-fashioned tools.

"Now more than ever, building community is crucial to our work of reversing authoritarianism and the entrenched exploitation of people and planet."
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‘Orbital’ Offers a God’s-Eye View of Our Fragile Home Samantha Harvey’s new novel asks us to appreciate the paradox of our mighty and vulnerable planet.

"In a way only astronauts can, they absorb the simultaneous vitality and fragility of their collective home and reckon with the human-caused calamities that threaten it."
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The Latest Issue of Verse & Voice Today's verse, voice, and prayer to inspire your day.

Humility is not a matter of self-effacement and self-negation but of being open always to new ways of being responsible. -Ada María Isasi-Díaz, "En La Lucha/In The Struggle: A Hispanic Women's Liberation Theology" (1996)
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Our Digital Divide Is Growing. What Can Churches Do? Steps toward a practical theology of technology.

"Digital access is not a luxury; it’s a matter of belonging."
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