2016-07-27
Let Women Preach
There is no basis for the popular notion that prophesying or preaching is a uniquely masculine act.
5/24/01
By J. Lee Grady

Banishing the Bible from Campus
Colleges are treating evangelical and Orthodox Jewish students like outcasts and bigots for their views on gays and sex.
By Elliott Abrams

Orthodox Feminism: Not an Oxymoron
Judaism's Orthodox feminist movement has succeeded in opening doors for women committed both to Jewish law and gender equality.
3/8/01
By Blu Greenberg

Love, Honor, and Obey?
What the Qur'an says about a wife obeying her husband.
3/8/01
By Sa'dullah Khan

Queer at Christmas

  • Being Queer at Christmas By Mary Ann Moore
  • A Gay Agenda for Christmastime By Deborah Levinson
  • Check One: Male, Female, or Transgendered
    We must treat the transgendered with compassion, but also protect the right to say there's treatment for gender confusion.
    2/16/01
    By Deborah Belonick

    The Gay Man as Spiritual Adept
    From the introduction to 'Gay Spirituality:' Why the author believes gay men represent the future of religion.
    2/16/01
    By Toby Johnson

    Letting My Hair Down
    Orthodox women must cover their hair after marriage. But after years of struggle, my feminism beat out my Orthodoxy on this one.
    1/11/01
    By Tova Mirvis

    Boy-Unfriendly Places
    Why are schools failing our sons?
    11/01/00
    By Charles Colson

    Sex, Celibacy, and Single Life After 50
    There must be a better way than asking single people to 'pray away' their sexuality. It's time to revisit the issue
    11/01/00
    By Hilda R. Davis

    Christianity's Sexiest Saint
    Mary of Magdala was the first to learn that Christ had risen. Feminists now look to her as they hope for other firsts
    11/01/00 By Heidi Schlumpf

    In the Bedroom With Bukiet
    The author of 'Neurotica' explains why a nice Jewish boy would compile an anthology of Jewish erotica
    11/01/00
    By Lisa Keys

    Mind, Body, and Soul
    Our culture has launched an assault on the body, but it's time to reclaim our physical selves as spiritually vital to who we are
    11/01/00
    By Lilian Calles Barger

    Women Clergy: The Numbers
    A clear profile of women clergy is emerging: liberal, feminist, tolerant, and concerned about the poor
    10/31/00
    By Martin E. Marty

    No Room for Compromise
    Christianity's integrity rides on how religious people deal with gay rights
    9/20/00
    by John Shelby Spong

    Gays and the Boy Scouts: Three Opinions

  • Gary Bauer: Assemble With Care
  • Dan Wakefield: On My Honor
  • Orson Scott Card: What Will Mormons Do?
  • Disciplining an Adulterer
    After my extramarital affair was discovered, God's tough love allowed me to get back another love--my husband's
    9/01/00
    By Lorrie Wilson

    Gender Separation at Prayer
    Keeping men and women separate in the pews fosters community--as long as the women are not left out
    9/01/00
    By Steven Greenberg

    Husbands at the Helm
    Make the Promise Keepers message endure by taking spiritual responsibility for your household--and its dirty dishes
    8/18/00
    By Larry A. Jackson

    Dr. Laura is Wrong About Gays
    7/17/00
    By Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

    In Defense of Dr. Laura
    7/17/00
    By Anne Morse

    Pope Denounces Gay Pride Parade
    7/9/00
    By Candice Hughes

    Requiem for a Gay Mormon
    In memory of Henry Stuart Matis
    6/26/00
    By Robert A. Rees

    Ten Reasons Men Shouldn't Be Ordained
    6/26/00
    By Ivan Emke

    Scheherazade: Feminist Icon?
    A Fictional Heroine Becomes an Inspiration to Muslim Women
    6/26/00
    By Barbara Crossette

    WWJD For Women?
    Jesus challenged many taboos that limited women in his time. Has his church followed through?
    6/26/00
    By Deborah Belonick

    Why God Is Often a 'She'
    The Scriptures abound with female imagery for the Deity. There's no reason we can't use it ourselves when thinking about God
    6/26/00
    By Elizabeth A. Johnson

    Beyond Misunderstanding to Disagreement
    What Really Motivates Anti-Gay Conservatives?
    6/26/00
    By Frederica Matthewes-Green

    Fatherhood Turns Men to Faith
    An eight-year study concludes that having children is good for the soul.
    6/24/00

    Faith of the Fatherless
    Atheists often had poor relationships with their fathers.
    6/14/00
    By Anne Morse

    Miracle Workers
    Popular culture abounds these days with women saints of astonishing powers
    6/6/00
    By Andrew Greeley

    Churches Warned of Female Burnout
    Study says women are the church's 'spiritual heavyweights,' but that carrying the load comes at a price.
    5/14/00
    By Andy Butcher

    Why the Gay-Bashers Are Wrong
    Homosexuality is a sin, but so is venomous anti-gay rhetoric.
    5/14/00
    By the Reverend Jerry Falwell

    Safe Sex Isn't Always Safe for the Soul
    Women and men deserve a relationship based on self-sacrificial love, not one where sex is used as a bargaining chip
    5/14/00
    Deborah Belonick

    Blessing Withdrawn
    Jimmy Creech, defrocked for performing a gay marriage, on serving his church as a layperson 5/14/00
    By Jimmy Creech

    Consequences Unclear
    Reform Judaism's gay marriage can be a success, like feminism, or a failure, like patrilineal descent
    4/18/00
    by Samuel G. Freedman

    A Historic Day
    A blessing to have taken part in a groundbreaking decision
    4/18/00
    by Jane Rachel Litman

    A Sad Day for Judaism
    OKing gay marriage ignores Jewish law and will divide Judaism
    4/18/00
    by Elliott Abrams

    Defining Moment
    A bat mitzvah shapes a girl into the woman she'll become.
    4/12/00
    By Tova Mirvis

    Protecting Marriage
    The case against gay marriage
    4/12/00
    By James Dobson

    No Threat to Marriage
    The case for gay marriage
    4/12/00
    By Ben Daniel

    Anglican Battle Over Homosexuality Takes a 'Bizarre' Turn
    4/12/00
    By John Shelby Spong

    Sex and the Single Evangelical
    It's time evangelicals talked seriously about sex
    4/12/00
    By Lauren F. Winner

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