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Kaya Oakes

Kaya Oakes’ fifth book, The Defiant Middle: How Women Claim Life’s In Betweens to Remake the World, was published in December 2021. She teaches nonfiction writing at UC Berkeley.

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Will Pope's African Tour Change Attitudes on Divorce and LGBTQ Among African Catholics?

Today, Pope Francis arrives in Nairobi, Kenya. After two days in Kenya, he will travel to Uganda, and then to the Central African Republic. The Pope’s message of care for those on the margins and his…
Kaya Oakes
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Religion Dispatches

Out of Options: Christians’ Losing Battle Over Equality

In the months since the Supreme Court’s decision to make marriage equality the law, conservative Christian thinkers have followed two tracks. On the one hand, writers like Rod Dreher and Ross Douthat…
Kaya Oakes
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"Own Your Heresy": The Argument Over Who Gets to Do Public Theology Takes a Sharp Turn

The topic of Ross Douthat’s Erasmus Lecture for First Things magazine this week was “ The Crisis of Conservative Catholicism,” a timely one given the recent public tussles over the Synod of the Family…
Kaya Oakes
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