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Sally Hemings A Novel by Barbara Chase-Riboud

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This is the single video that could change the tide of the Trumpcare vote.If you don't have time, begin at 5:20.

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#grace #gratitude

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WHAT MAKES YOU FEEL BETTER WHEN YOU ARE IN A BAD MOOD?

going for a walk

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What is killing Monarch Butterflies?

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Sarah Hendrickson shares what ski-jumping is like.

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We need the bees. The Perils of Pollination (by alevek123)

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Straying from the Vatican line

Christiane Amanpour interviews Sr. Joan Chittester, who explains with her usual passion, intelligence, and clarity the followingabout the Vatican attack on American religious women:

… The problem is not radical feminism, it’s radical patriarchy.  That’s where exclusion is built right into the DNA.  Women are nowhere on any of these commissions, on the writing of any of these documents.  So how would they know what a woman’s answer is to these things?  

One of the points on which Amanpour presses Chittister is the issue that Cardinal Levada has now labeled “product identity”: if Catholic religious women represent the Catholic “product,” aren’t they obliged to do what the men who (we’re asked to imagine, it seems) produce and control and brand the Catholic product tell them to do?  (For incisive commentary on Levada’s phrase and the corporatist roots of the phrase—and, by implication, the corporatist CEO mentality that now dominates the imagination of the men running the church—see Colleen Baker at Enlightened Catholicism and Barbara at Fur-licity.)

On this point, too, Chittister is crystal clear: what dominates the thinking of the sisters is not the corporate mentality of CEOs, but that of the gospels:

The sisters will tell you that their corporate mind comes out of the gospel … .

With good coverage of the attack on LCWR by one major news outlet after another in recent days, the media seem to be intent on proving Professor Margaret Susan Thompson correct as she notes in the Tablet recently that modern media have made it impossible for the hierarchy to control the scope, content, or direction of discussions of the Vatican attack on American religious women.  When there are women with the breadth of vision and expertise of Joan Chittester, who are very capable of thinking and opening their mouths to speak the truth, at the disposal of journalists trying to understand what the men of the church are doing to the women of the church, I think Professor Thompson is absolutely correct.

H/T to Bill at Bilgrimage

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How many of these national treasures have you visited?

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A blog by Emily Hauser regarding the GOP's war on women

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Here's a cool infographic from Chris Brogan that explains how google + works

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The Susan B. Komen Foundation created a firestorm of controversy with their recent decision to end grants to Planned Parenthood for breast cancer screening. Though they quickly backed down in the face of massive protests, the incident shined a spotlight on the Komen Foundation and their iconic Pink Ribbon campaigns. As a breast cancer survivor, it was disturbing to see how Komen could make vulnerable women into a political football. But questions have been raised before about Komen and what exactly they do with all of the money they raise. Pink Ribbons, a new Canadian film explores the inner workings of Komen and their huge fund-raising machine.

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@PurpleLauren2 Lauren Durham posted this on Twitter

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Under the Microscope tells the story of Dr. Myron Wentz, founder of USANA Health Sciences

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