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Equal Respect, Equal Opportunity: Ginsburg's Legacy Inspires the Work Ahead Paola Fuentes Gleghorn This week, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died Sept. 18, becomes the first woman to lie in state at the U.S. Capitol — after a life breaking so many barriers for women. Thinking about her life over the past week, I’ve realized how many of the things I take for granted began with her work. As a woman, I can have a credit card in my name, open a bank account, and buy a house through a mortgage without a husband's signature. I can also inherit land, and I am protected from being fired if I become pregnant, none of which was possible for every woman in the United States before the 1970s. While Ginsburg was not personally involved in every single new right that women gained after 1970, almost all of them can point to the 1971 Supreme Court case Reed v. Reed, for which she wrote the brief. The step-by-step progress ever since can be a guide as we press ever further. READ THE FULL ARTICLE Forward Share No Justice for Breonna Taylor: The Indictment Didn't Even #SayHerName Adam Russell Taylor Breonna Taylor’s life mattered. Her life was precious and it was beloved by God. Yet the decision by the grand jury in Jefferson County, Ky., painfully says otherwise. Breonna Taylor’s name didn’t even appear in Wednesday’s indictment against Brett Hankison, which raises alarming questions about what case the attorney general made to defend the value of her life. The decision exposes the value gap in our justice system that so often dismisses and degrades the value of Black life and treats police recklessness and misconduct with impunity. Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron failed to explain why Hankison felt it was necessary to shoot wildly and blindly into the apartment from the parking lot or the details around how this seemingly faulty no-knock warrant was obtained and executed in the first place. READ THE FULL ARTICLE Forward Share

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Our Latest Spiritual People Are More Likely to Vote, Study Finds (by the Web Editors) According to the study, 3 out of 5 participants see a link between their spirituality and investing in their community. American Protestantism's Commodification of the Middle East’s ‘Holy Lands’ (by Amy Fallas) American exceptionalism’s biblical orientalism has often rendered Middle Eastern Christians as exotic artifacts to be studied and converted. The Pattern of Abuse in Immigrant Detention Centers Is Clear (by Paola Fuentes Gleghorn) Women have been sounding the alarm for years. U.S. Surpasses 200,000 COVID-19 Deaths (by the Web Editors) There's no national effort to memorialize a tragedy we're still experiencing and will be for quite some time.

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From the Magazine Reading the Lectionary in a Time of Selfishness (by Valerie Bridgeman) September reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary, Cycle A.

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