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New anthology explores the myriad ways of being Black and Jewish
Shoshana Akua Brown was one of few students of color at her Orthodox Jewish day school in New York City in the 1990s. Hoping to fit in, she decided to go by the name Tiffany—a nod to Saved by the Bell actress Tiffani Amber Thiessen—for an entire year.
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Sarah Ruden vs millennia of antiabortion men
The classicist goes on an energetic romp through the long history of what she sees as propaganda intended to control
Identity choice articulating what matters and other reader feedback
Identity or choice? As I read David Congdon’s article (“Understanding polyamory”), it occurred to me that the polyamory conversation is categorically different from the one about LGBTQ identity.
Rebirth pangs
Where something has died, something else must now be born. It’s not going to be
Embroiled in legal battle Texas megachurch proposes leaving the UMC
Amid a legal battle with its conference, leaders of a Dallas megachurch are now urging congregation members to consider a vote to withdraw from the United Methodist Church. Highland Park United Methodist’s church council held a town hall October 11 for church members that laid out the leaders’ perspective on what transpired before the lawsuit and their broken faith in United Methodist leadership, especially Horizon Texas Conference Bishop Rubén Saenz Jr.
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