Tish Harrison Warren:
The root of religious freedom amid pluralism is love for our neighbors, especially our ideological or political enemies. We cannot spend eight years supporting a president whose basic modus operandi is meanness and cruelty-- who vocally disagrees with the call to love one’s enemy--and then expect anyone to take us seriously when we ask them to respect our religious freedom.
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I'm catching up this week after a tussle with some poison ivy. Nature's ever-ready reminder that it is more than we.
Really enjoying the Atlantic lately. Peter Wehner:
The conservative evangelical David French has reminded us that in 1998, during the Bill Clinton–Monica Lewinsky scandal, the Southern Baptist Convention passed a “Resolution on Moral…
Retired doctor and author Lodovico Balducci:
I grew up in a small town in Italy where abortion was illegal and could bring criminal charges. Yet in my hometown, everyone knew where to go for an abortion. There was a provider for poor women and a provider for the well-to-do. Most of the time, authorities in this mostly Catholic country left both alone.
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I’m…
grieve](https://annehelen.substack.com/p/so-much-time-and-none-it-to-grieve)
A beautiful article by Anne Helen Petersen:
Whatever grief you are feeling, whether related to COVID or otherwise, whether anticipatory or existential, whether related to your own health or the world’s or your community’s — it matters. It doesn’t matter more, but it matters. And that means we…