Lisa Cahill teaches Theology at Boston College. She discusses Catholics and SCOTUS, natural law, and the nexus between religion and the public square, with Steve Mathonnet-VanderWell
In the 1970s, evangelicals were told that good wives should "cure" men's lust. Still today, this makes men's "moral failings" the fault of a negligent wife.
We've talked a lot about Covid-deniers, mask-refusers, and reckless behavior during the pandemic. But what about those who now cannot reenter society, even though they've been vaccinated?
"We have been trained to see adoption as a fairy-tale ending to a tragic story, one that elides the birth mother’s complex feelings about relinquishing a child and the adopted child’s complex feelings of loss and abandonment."
The United States demands too much wisdom from Black parents. We must walk that fine line between telling the truth about how cruel America can be toward Black bodies and souls and the hope that our children can be their free Black selves.
A study in the American Sociological Review finds that women who attend churches with restrictions on their leadership roles are less healthy than women attending churches with women in leadership roles.