Author: Sheila Marler
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This is How We Should Talk to Each Other
Reading Time: < 1 minuteTwo Italian designers made a statement about gay marriage that turned out to be very controversial. However, I believe this is how we should talk to each other. Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana said in a recent interview that they oppose gay adoptions. They also oppose gay marriage. They believe ‘the…
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What Does Theology Have to do with Life?
Reading Time: 6 minutesThere is an old conversation about art that took place in early twentieth century France. The important question that I derived from that conversation is What does theology have to do with life? In contrast to such questions, I find our current conversation rather depressing. Theology and Art French cubist Albert Gleizes…
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Personal Mother Versus Archetypal Mother
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMy criticism of Christianity has nothing to do with the beliefs or the theology. It has to do with its economic effects on communities. Of course these effects didn’t originate with Christianity. They originated with the Greek philosophers who remain influential in Christianity. Recently the Pope has made it clear that…
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If Female Ordination is the Answer What’s the Question?
Reading Time: 2 minutesI have argued that Catholic women should be free to make a plan for community reform without asking for permission. However, I’m not Catholic, so I don’t know if there would be resistance from the Church on this. But instead, the strategy of women’s groups is to demand female ordination. The Church…
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Female Ordination as Strategy
Reading Time: 4 minutesI know there are Christian Churches that ordain women. At this time, the most I can say about them is that they represent a fundamental change in thinking. However, I believe female ordination as strategy is based on a dangerous misunderstanding of the reality behind male hierarchies. Female Ordination is a Vanity…
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It Depends on Your Definition of Tradition
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe birth control debate has focused on single women. However married couples depend on birth control more consistently than single people. I’d like to invite the legislators to include married women in the discussion. There is a disconnect in our understanding of sexual relations in marriage. We laugh about old television…
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Neoclassical Ideology
Reading Time: 4 minutesNeoclassical ideology is capitalist mind control. It was created to support the aims of dominant capital. Capitalist mind control is a smokescreen for the abuses of capitalist economics. Dominant Capital and Tax Money Financed Neoclassical Economics This development was financed by two sources, dominant capital and tax money. It is shored up…
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A Challenge to Politics As Usual
Reading Time: 4 minutesIf we limit the conversation to what we can realistically do, our choices are limited. But if we’re talking theory, anything is possible. Since I’m in charge of my own theoretical world, I’ll offer some solutions. I’ll start with solutions to environmental problems. Any changes in politics and economics will be limited…
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Toward Dialogue With the Church
Reading Time: 4 minutesA recent article about the Pope’s address to the European parliament poses questions that I think many of us have been asking ourselves. For example, secularists might be asking why it is important for them to move toward dialogue with the Church. “The Pontiff wasn’t the most obvious person to deliver hard…
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NGO Blames Bride Price for Domestic Violence in Uganda
Reading Time: 4 minutesA recent article tells of a woman in Uganda whose husband beat her regularly until she finally left him and went back to her parents’ house. It is assumed that her husband’s behavior was caused by the custom of ‘bride price or dowry’ supposedly enshrined in Ugandan law. The article refers to…