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An imperfect offering for four lives
Four different young people ended their own lives last month because of bullying and homophobia. I have been wanting to write something about this here, but try as I might I cannot think of anything...
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Reading list
This week has been a rough scramble to dig my way back out of the hole my to-do list fell into last week aka family sickness week. All my grand plans to write many posts in honor of Bridget’s first...
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Religious knowledge, religious life
There’s been a lot of talk recently about the new Pew Forum survey on religious knowledge. The take-home message many are deriving from the results is that atheists, Jews, and Mormons outscore...
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Midwifery in Illinois
The legal situation for midwifery varies from state to state. It affects whether or how midwives can practice and whether or how women can access midwifery care. Word has gone out today that...
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Links on mothering while incarcerated
If you think the state of maternal care is bad in the U.S., consider how much worse it can be to try to bring a child into the world from within the prison system. Over the past few months, as I...
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North Carolina midwife arrested
There’s sad news this week that a North Carolina midwife has been arrested for practicing without a license. But North Carolina does not legally recognize Certified Professional Midwives. This is why...
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More about the midwife arrest
A lot of people are landing on my little blog searching for information about the midwife who was arrested in North Carolina. Welcome! I’ve dug up a little more for you. I found a record of Amy...
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Not jumping to conclusions
Local news has reported a bit more of Amy Medwin’s story. As I speculated the other day, sadly there does seem to have been some injury to a baby. I’m not actually willing to speculate whether this...
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Dangerous theology
“If you ban it, they will read it” is certainly true. The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops suggested that Elizabeth Johnson’s book Quest for the Living God: Mapping Frontiers in the...
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Homebirth on the rise
Homebirth is on the rise! Between 2004 and 2008 homebirths in the U.S. rose 20%. This still represents a pretty small number of the total U.S. births – only about 1%. Still, the increase is...
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