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Daisy Khan, the “Ground Zero Mosque”—and 700 Million Muslim Women

By Jesse Larner — 2011

She explained how, after 9/11, she felt a special responsibility to speak up for the vast majority of Muslims who embrace democracy and human rights, and to address the vexed issues of violence, status of women, leadership, and democracy within Islam. - Jesse Larner

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Pope Appoints Six Women to Top Roles on Vatican Council in Progressive Step

Pope Francis has appointed six women to oversee the Vatican’s finances in the most senior roles ever given to women within the Catholic church’s leadership. The appointments mark the most significant step by Francis to fulfil his promise of placing women in top positions.

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The Guardian
2020
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Pope Francis Is Fearless

Op-Ed: His papacy has been a consistent rebuke to American culture-war Christianity in politics.

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John Gehring
2019
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‘What I Know’: A Black Woman’s Words

“Being Black overrides everything for me. Nothing is as thunderous in my life as racism. It seems to eclipse everything. It’s the repetitiveness of it. And the fact that it comes from every corner and nook.”

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Kristen Wise
2020
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The Ms. Q&A: Dr. Brené Brown Wants Feminists to Choose Courage Over Comfort

Dr. Brené Brown has spent the past sixteen years researching courage, vulnerability, shame, and empathy. She has authored four New York Times bestsellers, and her TED talk, “The Power of Vulnerability,” is one of the most-viewed TED talks of all time. Ms.

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Anne McCarthy
2018
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Why Women Need Fierce Self-Compassion

Compassion isn’t always soft and gentle; sometimes it means being forceful and fierce.

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Kristin Neff
2018
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The Sorrow of an All-Male Lineage

Zen teacher Norman Fischer discovers the life-changing — and society-changing — power of really knowing other people’s pain.

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Norman Fischer
2018
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‘I Realized I Don’t Have to Believe My Thoughts’

Our mindfulness practice is not about vanquishing our thoughts. It’s about becoming aware of the process of thinking so that we are not in a trance—lost inside our thoughts.

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Tara Brach
2014
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To the ‘Experts in Humanity’: Since When Did Women Become the Problem?

“The Church, expert in humanity, has a perennial interest in whatever concerns men and women” a new document from Rome begins. After that the expertise, sincere as it may be, gets cloudy.

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Joan Chittister
2004
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A Catholic Nun on What It Really Means to Be Pro-Life

What exactly is a moral person?

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Joan Chittister
2017
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Hobson’s Choice or a New Beginning

What would it look like if we expected our present political leaders to use the same approaches to national leadership as the Benedictine Order did 1,500 years ago?

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Joan Chittister
2020
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