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Wil Gafney

The Rev. Wil(da) Gafney, Ph.D. is the Associate Professor of Hebrew and Old Testament at the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia. She is the author of Daughters of Miriam: Women Prophets in Ancient Israel and coeditor of The Peoples’ Bible and The Peoples’ Companion to the Bible. She is an Episcopal Priest and a member of both the historic African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas and Dorshei Derekh Reconstructionist Minyan, both in Philadelphia.

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Religion Dispatches
Nearly 300 Nigerian schoolgirls have been ripped from their desks and chairs, notebooks and pencils, smiles and giggles and sent to hell. They’ve been sold, trafficked for sex and reproduction and…
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Religion Dispatches
The crafters of biblical stories knew that people came in variety and accounted for that in their narratives. Not so Aronofsky.
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Religion Dispatches
Legitimizing questions about Obama and the Muslim Brotherhood.
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