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"This is our life."--Dispatch from Palestine

“This is our life.”–Dispatch from Palestine

Posted on November 21, 2014November 20, 2014 by Jenn Lindsay
Dhesheh Refugee Camp houses 17,000 people in less than 1 square kilometer. It was established for two waves of refugees in 1948 and 1967 by the United Nations, which is still in charge of providing me... Read More
"You are an ambassador"--Dispatch from Palestine

“You are an ambassador”–Dispatch from Palestine

Posted on November 18, 2014November 16, 2014 by Jenn Lindsay
We drive along the barbed electric fence that surrounds the Israeli settlement of Har Gilo.  We are headed to the Walajah valley of the Palestinian territory. The valleys are deep and lush with pine ... Read More
Life is Hard Here -- Dispatch from Palestine

Life is Hard Here — Dispatch from Palestine

Posted on November 13, 2014November 12, 2014 by Jenn Lindsay
The heavy rain doused the aluminum-roofed shack. Rivulets carved paths through the thick mud around the house. But inside, the house was cozy, comfortable. Thick carpets and bouncy velvet couches make... Read More
The Beginning of a Settlement -- Dispatch from Palestine

The Beginning of a Settlement — Dispatch from Palestine

Posted on November 10, 2014November 9, 2014 by Jenn Lindsay
Mahmoud’s family lives one Palestinian hill over from a newly-forming illegal Jewish settlement. Six Jewish settlers arrived about a year ago with tents and made a primitive campsite. All year they ... Read More
"Just Tell Our Story" -- Dispatch from Palestine

“Just Tell Our Story” — Dispatch from Palestine

Posted on October 29, 2014October 29, 2014 by Jenn Lindsay
We met Shirim at her family’s olive grove plot. It falls just outside the Betar Illit settlement. More accurately, it falls on the entire hill but the settlement imposed itself right on top of the f... Read More
Creating Single (M)Otherhood: The Problem of Our “Morality” and How Single Mothers Embody the Ethics We Need

Creating Single (M)Otherhood: The Problem of Our “Morality” and How Single Mothers Embody the Ethics We Need

Posted on October 16, 2014October 15, 2014 by Haley Feuerbacher
A recent article called “4 Ways I Knew Ray Rice Was Raised by a Single Mother” features a misogynistic enumeration of the football player’s flaws attributed to being raised by a single mom. Thes... Read More
Medicine and Moral Conflict in Botswana

Medicine and Moral Conflict in Botswana

Posted on May 19, 2014May 19, 2014 by Tom Peteet
The ride from Gaborone to the hospital in Molepolole starts in the dark. By the time the sun rises, we are onto Donkey Road, a 40km drag that lives up to its name of scattered donkeys, pensively explo... Read More
Neoliberal Violence and Religious Action

Neoliberal Violence and Religious Action

Posted on May 8, 2014May 7, 2014 by Terry Shoemaker
Economics dominate American headlines.  Discussions focusing on national debt, wealth disparity, minimum wage, budget deficits, and personal debt are reoccurring themes in newspapers, the blogosphere... Read More
When an Olympic Ring Blinked

When an Olympic Ring Blinked

Posted on February 12, 2014February 11, 2014 by Joseph Wiinikka-Lydon
I am in love with the four Olympic rings. I am in love, in particular, with the one that did not open, last Friday, during the opening ceremonies in Sochi, Russia. That closed ring shows the incomplet... Read More
Why I will not apply for the Council on Foreign Relations’s “Religion and Foreign Policy Bulletin”

Why I will not apply for the Council on Foreign Relations’s “Religion and Foreign Policy Bulletin”

Posted on December 11, 2013December 17, 2013 by Joseph Wiinikka-Lydon
State of Formation recently announced that it would nominate its Contributing Scholars to be featured in the Council on Foreign Relation’s “Religion and Foreign Policy Bulletin.” This is a great... Read More
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