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If we are to live with our feet on the ground, in touch with reality, we must help one another accept the fact that we who are christian are heirs to a body-despising, woman-fearing, sexually repressive religious tradition. If we…

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Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at heart, a matter of sentiment, attachment, or being…

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If we are to live with our feet on the ground, in touch with reality, we must help one another accept the fact that we who are christian are heirs to a body-despising, woman-fearing, sexually repressive religious tradition. If we are to continue as members of the church, we must challenge and transform it at the root. What is required…

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For god is nothing other than the eternally creative source of our relational power, our common strength, a god whose movement is to empower,…

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But doubt is a crucial to faith as darkness is to light. Without one, the other has no context and is meaningless. Faith is,…

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If women were in charge, abortion would be a sacrament, an occasion of deep and serious and sacred meaning.

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I'm a priest, not a priestess. Priestess implies mumbo jumbo and all sorts of pagan goings-on. Those who oppose us would love to call…

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God reveals herself through our relationships not only to other people but also to other creatures and nature.

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Lovers re-create the world.

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“Without critical work, political awareness is likely to remain superficial and rhetorical.”

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Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at heart, a matter of sentiment, attachment, or being drawn toward. Love is active, effective, a matter of making reciprocal and mutually beneficial relation with one's friends and enemies. Love creates righteousness, or justice, here on earth. To make love is to make justice. As…

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