Bringing feminism into sexual morality
I stumbled upon the above tweets a few days ago in the timeline of Jonathan Merritt, author of “A Faith of Our Own: Following Jesus Beyond the Culture Wars.” The tweets linked to a video by the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) Generation Forum, an initiative established to “explore the potential for evangelical Christians to [...]
Virginity as a social construct?
“I don’t really believe in virginity.” I heard “The F Word” blogger Holly Combe say this during a segment on BBC World News yesterday morning. She had a slightly different view of virginity than did Miriam Babooram, a woman who, at 33, is a virgin and has decided not to have sex before marriage. [...]
Why Black Voters Should Be Mad at Obama (and themselves)
I’ve spent the past several days absorbing commentary via social media and NPR about President Obama’s views on same-sex marriage and Black voters’ reactions to it. Both anecdotal evidence and real numbers suggest that if the president wanted to retain his most devoted voting block, he made a mistake on May 10, when he told [...]
L.A. Riots 20 years later and Gen X through it all
At an event a few weeks ago about cross-generational workplaces, I learned that most members of any given generation are between the ages of about 10 and 15 when a national or world event that has a major impact on an entire generation hits. The event facilitators started the panel/audience discussion by listing some of [...]
Time for Equal Expectations
Tuesday, April 17, was National Equal Pay Day. Since it was also Tax Day, you may not have noticed. According to the National Committee on Pay Equity, which established Equal Pay Day in 1996, April 17, 2012 represented how far into 2012 women had to work to earn what men earned in 2011. (What I [...]
Required Reading
One of the unfortunate aspects of being a print journalist is that I can’t share links in the newspaper, and (to my knowledge, since I don’t actually work there) the I.T. department doesn’t add links to the copies of articles they publish online. So, this marks a new feature in Redbone-Afropuff: When I have a [...]
When man-made laws protect us from bad faith
Because faith is so personal, I try to avoid looking at it objectively or commenting on religions that are not my own. Additionally, I readily admit I’m not a scholar of one or of many religions. I read and study the Christian Bible because I’m a Christian and I believe my personal walk with Christ [...]
Looking for Plan B: An open letter to girls
To a 16-year-old girl who wants to buy Plan B-One over the counter: Someone in the Obama administration you’ve probably never even heard of made an unprecedented decision concerning you last week. U.S. Health and Human Services Department Secretary Kathleen Sebelius decided that Plan B One-Step, which you probably know as the “morning after pill,” [...]
Let the hate show
When I read yesterday that Gulnare Free Will Baptist Church, a church in my lovely state of Kentucky, voted to ban interracial couples from its congregation, I thought, “So much for post-racial America.” While I was appalled, shook my head, and joined in with the “And they call themselves Christians,” chorus, I felt some vindication for [...]
Where the War on Drugs Meets the War on Women
“Planters care for nothing but to buy Negroes to raise cotton & raise cotton to buy Negroes.” –an unnamed southerner to northerner Edward Russell c. 1854 Dr. Michelle Alexander’s book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, teaches civil rights advocates to be on the lookout for the next movement [...]
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