Tag: equality
What is our response to ‘Sexting, Shaming and Suicide?’
Some stories are difficult to make sense of. Take, for instance, one of the stories from the Bible from Judges 19. It is the story of a Levite traveling through the hill country of Ancient Israel, goi... Read More
Francois Hollande: The Candidate for Change? Not for French Muslims
Last Wednesday night’s presidential debate saw Socialist hopeful Francois Hollande pitted against ‎incumbent President Nicolas Sarkozy on key points of the political agenda including nuclear â... Read More
Marriage and Interfaith Dialogue
No doubt we are all aware of the outcomes of the collaboration of Republican and Democratic politicians in New York on 24 June 2011 which made New York the sixth state (in the United States) to legali... Read More
Beyond Post-racialism
Article first published as Beyond Post-Racialism on Blogcritics. I recently watched a video of Ruha Benjamin, a Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Boston University. In this video,... Read More
Preparing for the 10th Anniversary of 9/11
The tenth anniversary of September 11 is in just four months. Plans for commemorative ceremonies, gatherings, and memorial services are underway. But how we understand 9/11 is still far from certain t... Read More
Celebrating Female Clergy
A college chaplain once candidly described the process for him, as a Protestant, as one of simultaneous celebration and mourning when he recognized that Protestantism was no longer a universal norm on... Read More