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Women Speak About Natural Family Planning: the Papal Birth Control Commission
This is the third in a series of posts featuring some women’s experience with natural family planning. The first two stories can be read here and here. For the post that originally inspired this project, click here. To read about… Continue reading
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Women Speak About Natural Family Planning: K’s Story
This is the second in a series of posts featuring some women’s experience with natural family planning. The first can be read here. For the post that originally inspired this project, click here. To read about the purpose of and… Continue reading
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Women Speak About Natural Family Planning: MJ’s Story
This is the first in a series of posts featuring some women’s experience with natural family planning. For the post that originally inspired this project, click here. To read about the purpose and ground rules for this project, click here.… Continue reading
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Women Speak About Natural Family Planning: Tell Us Your Stories
As some of you probably remember, about a year ago, we at WIT published a post entitled “Women Speak About Natural Family Planning.” When I wrote the post, I was expecting it to be controversial and indeed it remains among… Continue reading
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Obama, Birth Control, and the Body of Christ: Thoughts on the HHS Ruling
As many of you know, a few weeks ago, President Obama mandated that Catholic hospitals would have to begin providing birth control inclusive health care coverage for their employees. Opponents of this decision claim that, in making the Catholic church… Continue reading
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A Correction
I want to thank commenter Brad for bringing to my attention an error I made in yesterday’s post White Supremacy, U.S. Citizenship, and the Body of Christ. As he so helpfully reminded me, Patrice Lumumba was assassinated three days before… Continue reading
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White Supremacy, U.S. Citizenship, and the Body of Christ
This week marked the 2nd anniversary of the Haiti earthquake and the 51st anniversary of the CIA-backed assassination of Patrice Lumumba–the Congo’s first democratically-elected leader following its independence from Belgium. Also this week, the school district of Tuscon, Arizona decided… Continue reading
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Remembering Martin Luther King, Jr.
Last year on Martin Luther King Day, I reflected upon MLK’s radical critique of U.S. imperialism, an aspect of his legacy which is often forgotten. This year, I would like us to remember that racism continues to pervade nearly all aspects… Continue reading
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Woman and A Lady at the Museum of Modern Art
When my sister visited last week she and I had a chance to do some of the New York City exploring I haven’t made much time for since moving to the Bronx in August. Our Big Apple adventures included a… Continue reading