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It’s the hierarchy and killing, not just the discrimination.

A recent piece by novelist Nathaniel Rich focused on eccentric Japanese researcher Shin Kubota, who studies the “immortal jellyfish.” But what are we after when we seek immortality? And does this quest tell us more about us than the natural world?

On December 15, 2012 we lost a giant in the field of intellectual reflection on religion and social justice. I speak of Beverly Wildung Harrison, longtime professor of social ethics and feminist theory at Union Theological Seminary in New York City.

Fifteen years, according to new evidence in Los Angeles Catholic abuse scandal.

Roe v. Wade anniversary edition of Bloggingheads.

It’s Seneca, Selma, and Stonewall vs. conquest and exceptionalism.

I’ve often wondered why I hid from them that day. It was two years ago and a rousing Sunday service was winding down at the Portuguese Language Missionary Pentecostal Church in Queens.

Can business owners assert that their free exercise is being burdened when the coverage mandate is imposed not on them, but on their business? Does the for-profit corporation or LLC have religious beliefs of its own? Does General Motors practice religion? If not, do smaller corporations exercise religion? Or are the small businesses really asserting the religious rights of their owners?