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It occurs to me that experience may not be the only teacher.

Oppression is human-made and must be human-eradicated.

Religion and religious practices have a context.

The problem is that the black church is obsessed with the suppression of sexuality.

Everyone is in agreement that desecration is a bad thing. Across cultures and throughout time, most any human being would say that dousing a dead person’s tomb with millions of gallons of crude oil is wrong. We should take advantage of this rare instance of human unanimity, and use the spiritual appeal of honoring the dead to help frame political arguments about ecological preservation and restoration.

Here’s what Mormon feminists want you to know about our tradition.

“Spiritual sons” were told the Bible compelled them to “follow their master.”

There are no such statements in the Qur’an making music haram, but still this idea persists and is given credence.

Roger Williams was a 17th century theologian, rabble rouser, founder of the first Baptist church in America— and of the state of Rhode Island. His idea of “soul liberty” was in exact opposition to the idea, promoted by some Christian conservatives, that the U.S. is a “Christian nation.”

Still it is vexing to make sense of any uneven distribution based on gender.