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Diagnosing Saints

WebHalley Haruta. Halley Haruta is a third-year Master of Divinity student at the University of Chicago, where her research has focused on religious ethics. In 2022-2023, …

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Curing and Healing

Web“It is strange that healing is absent from medical discourse today. Cure, resolution, recovery, and rehabilitation retain semantic currency; you can find these …

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The Coronavirus and Us

WebThe constantly evolving news regarding the coronavirus is largely, and appropriately, couched in medical and scientific terms. What we can and cannot know …

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Sightings Articles The University of Chicago Divinity School

WebMartin Marty | Philip Alcabes | curing | healing | health care | narrative medicine | Holy Week. Curing and Healing “It is strange that healing is absent from medical discourse …

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Disability Theology and the Healthcare Debate

WebAmidst many developing political news stories this summer, one of the most important in terms of policy is Congress’s ongoing attempt to reform healthcare and …

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The Acquittal of "Patient Zero"

WebA new study, bolstered by the genetic analysis of thousands of 1970s blood samples, has acquitted Gaëtan Dugas, the gay French Canadian flight attendant once …

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“The seeds of compassion and duty”: An Early Americanist …

WebPhilippa Koch. Author, Philippa Koch (PhD’16), is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Missouri State University.Her research and teaching center on …

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Sightings Articles The University of Chicago Divinity School

Webdisability rights | disability theology | healthcare reform. Disability Theology and the Healthcare Debate. Amidst many developing political news stories this summer, …

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Sightings Articles The University of Chicago Divinity School

Webhealth care | white evangelicals. Why White Evangelicals Are Wrong About Obamacare. Editor's Note: This essay responds to the "Three Reasons White …

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Sightings Articles The University of Chicago Divinity School

WebHobby Lobby | Little Sisters of the Poor | Jehovah's Witness | gay rights | reproductive freedom | women's health care | conservative religions | U.S. Supreme Court. …

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Judging Illness and Living Like Kings in Yomeddine

WebTranslating as “Day of Judgment,” Yomeddine is a touching road trip movie that provides a thoughtful commentary upon appearances and the ability to see beyond …

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Conscience: Its Use and Abuse

WebGiven the fact that the conscience of each individual is free, he insisted, we have the security, should it be needed, that no institutionalized religion will be able to …

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Pandemic, Disability, and Worship Practices: What Next

WebWorship spaces are being used in new ways, and services have been adapted and made accessible to participants who remain at home. This has proven to be …

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Why White Evangelicals Are Wrong About Obamacare

WebAn attack on the ACA, given its purpose, is an attack on both human rights and the social contract, meriting, as a result, very considerable skepticism. For reasons …

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James Baldwin and the Cost of Community

WebJames Baldwin diagnosed America’s race problems as coming, not from hatred or ignorance, but from white Americans’ inability to admit that life is tragic. He writes , “Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood

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An Inner Life With New Meaning

WebAs the indicators by which we've measured our collective well-being in recent years continue to plummet, I found a conversation with Parker Palmer echoing in my …

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Three Reasons White Evangelicals Hate Obamacare

WebLast year, Republican lawmakers—with the support of many white evangelical Christians—found ways to undermine Obamacare. In Iowa, where …

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Cultivating the Good in Our ‘Mass of Habits’

WebMartin Marty reflects on new (and old) advice for changing our habits. “All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits,” judged American philosopher …

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Texas' Latest Restrictions on Abortions Challenged in U.S. Supreme

WebLast week, in the case of Whole Women’s Health v.Hellerstedt, the U.S. Supreme Court took up the question of whether Texas’ statute raising safety standards at abortion …

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Asking the Right Questions about Genetic Engineering

WebWe can wave aside the superficial versions of these worries easily. The first is far too general in its condemnation. Genetic engineering is unnatural, but so is nasal spray. The whole project of medicine is an effort to make us healthier than we find ourselves naturally. If we are going to condemn human bioengineering because it is unnatural

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