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What We Love About the Black Church: Can We Get a Witness?

Judson Press, the publishing arm of the American Baptist Churches USA, which has a substantial African-American membership, released a new book in May 2010 called What We Love About the Black Church: Can We Get a Witness? The volume is a collection of essays on best practices in the African-American churches. It is edited by two white […]

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Terence J. Fay

Terence J. Fay is a lecturer on the History of Religion at the University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada. He is an expert on the history of Catholicism.

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“Like a Player”

Read an April 5 essay at the online Jewish magazine, The Tablet, titled “Like a Player.” The column, by Elli Fischer, explores the development of the relationship between sports and faith, with a particular emphasis on the Jewish perspective.

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Malcolm Potts

Malcolm Potts is an obstetrician and reproductive scientist and a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He has studied oral contraceptives since the 1960s and says the Catholic Church needs to recognize the health benefits – aside from contraception – of the birth control pill.

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Elaine Tyler May

Elaine Tyler May teaches in the history and American studies departments at the University of Minnesota. Her books include America + the Pill: A History of Promise, Peril and Liberation.

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