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Tom Davis

The Rev. Tom Davis, a minister in the United Church of Christ, is the author of Sacred Work; Planned Parenthood and its Clergy Alliances (Rutgers Press, 2005). From 1960-63 he was a chaplain at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. In 1966 he came to Skidmore College as Associate Professor of Religion and College Chaplain. He served the college 30 years and retired in 1996. From 1992-1998 he was on the national board of Planned Parenthood Federation of America serving as chairperson of PPFA’s Clergy Advisory Board on which he continues to serve. He has also served on the national board of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, and is currently a member of the state board of the New York State Family Planning Advocates, the New York State Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, and the Religion, Culture, and Public Policy Board of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy

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Religion Dispatches
On September 13, when word came that my friend, the Rev. Howard Moody, had died at the age of 91, I remembered a self-description he loved to put out. He said that he came from a long line of “dirt…
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Religion Dispatches
What of protestants and Jews who believe it’s an obligation of their religion to practice contraception?
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Religion Dispatches
A standard misconception of the religious right is to privilege sexual “sins” over the sin of, say, a lack of economic justice for women. A story from Genesis 38 retold…
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