By Seth Satterlee Jul 09, 2021 Forthcoming books this season look at the Hebrew Bible and the Talmud from a mix of historical, literary, and theological perspectives. Fall 2021 Announcements: Religion & spirituality By Seth Satterlee | Jul 09, 2021
Forthcoming books this season look at the Hebrew Bible and the Talmud from a mix of historical, literary, and theological perspectives. There are also new titles from heavy hitters like Rachel Held Evans, Kathie Lee Gifford, and Lysa TerKeurst.
Top 10
Peter Seewald. Bloomsbury Continuum, Nov. 9 ($35, ISBN 978-1-4729-7921-6)
The second volume of historian Seewald’s comprehensive life of Pope Benedict covers the period from the Second Vatican Council (1965–1968) to the present.
In a recent New York Times op-ed, the current head of Planned Parenthood, Alexis McGill Johnson, lays bare their founder’s involvement with white supremacist groups, eugenics, and the medical exploitation of Puerto Rican women. She calls for a “reckoning” with Margaret Sanger’s sins, admitting that Sanger “devalued and dehumanized people of color” as well as people with disabilities. McGill Johnson then pledges on behalf of Planned Parenthood “to fight the many types of dehumanization we are seeing right now.”
McGill Johnson wants you to know that her claims aren’t just “virtue signaling.” She outlines how Planned Parenthood has invested in anti-racist training and developed “equity and inclusion” standards. She also points out that their senior leadership team is diverse. What she fails to note is that, for all the diversity in their boardroom, each person there shares a key privilege: They were allowed to be born.
April 9, 2021 last updated 10:49 ET Abortion rights activists celebrate after Congress approved a bill that legalizes abortion, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Dec. 30, 2020 (AP photo by Natacha Pisarenko).
For Argentina’s ‘Green Tide,’ Legal Abortion Is Just the Beginning
At dawn on Dec. 30, a sea of humanity outside of Argentina’s Congress in Buenos Aires fixed their eyes on the nine giant screens the government had installed to broadcast the parliamentary session taking place inside. For 12 hours, Argentina’s Senate had been debating a bill, already approved by the House of Representatives two weeks earlier, that would legalize abortion through the first trimester of pregnancy and offer it free of cost in the country’s public health system.