women's rights

From the Editors

A new playing field

Jun 06, 2012

Title IX revolutionized sports at the scholastic and collegiate levels. The results show up elsewhere as well.

Century Blogs

The "we" of women's rights

May 09, 2012 by Amy Frykholm

It is difficult to know what to say in response to Mona Eltahawy’s explosive article on the experience of women in Middle Eastern countries. She writes about a level of institutionalized brutality that demands that readers pay attention.

At the same time, she doesn’t say anything new, nothing that wasn’t already made too vividly clear during the Arab Spring.

Tribal Church

Dancing with ourselves?

Progressives have spent overwhelming resources to influence issues within the church, while we have lost our voice outside the church.

Mar 10, 2012 by Carol Howard Merritt

Do we spend more time in closed rooms--trying to articulate to other church professionals why we are right--than we spend speaking to the media and articulating to the larger world why we believe in the inclusive love of God?

M.E.M.O.

Juicy quotes

May 10, 2000 by Martin E. Marty

Some years ago a writer in the Washington Post made a snide comment about evangelicals of the southern persuasion, saying that they were dim-witted ignoramuses. I should know the statement by heart since it’s been quoted often enough by bright-witted evangelicals as evidence of media bias.

News

Religious groups join women's rights march

Prayerfully Pro-Choice Interfaith Worship Service
May 18, 2004
Standing at a worship service shortly before the official start of the March for Women’s Lives held in Washington, D.C., pastry cook Theresa Helfrey held two signs stapled together, one declaring the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s call for justice and another supporting NARAL, a prominent abortion rights organization.