{"id":4151,"date":"2015-01-24T11:01:16","date_gmt":"2015-01-24T17:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/?p=4151"},"modified":"2015-01-24T11:02:20","modified_gmt":"2015-01-24T17:02:20","slug":"25-january-2015-adult-religious-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/2015\/01\/24\/25-january-2015-adult-religious-education\/","title":{"rendered":"25 January 2015 Adult Religious Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rhrealitycheck.org\/article\/2013\/02\/08\/communicating-complexity-reproductive-justice\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4153\" src=\"http:\/\/allsoulsuushreveport.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/ReproductiveJustice-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"ReproductiveJustice\" width=\"251\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/ReproductiveJustice-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/ReproductiveJustice.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 251px) 85vw, 251px\" \/><\/a>Please join us on Sunday (25 January 2015) at 9:30 AM for our adult religious education class.<\/p>\n<p>This week, we are taking a break from our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Natures-God-Heretical-American-Republic-ebook\/dp\/B00FQUDU60\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1422117659&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=Nature%27s+God%3A++The+Heretical+Origins+of+the+American+Republic\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Nature&#8217;s God<\/em><\/a> study group.<\/p>\n<p>Melissa Gibson will be facilitating a discussion on reproductive justice &#8212; our denomination&#8217;s 2012-2016 social justice study action issue (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uua.org\/reproductive\/calling\/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Reproductive Justice: Expanding Our Social Justice Calling<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Reproductive Justice is a complex issue that goes far beyond the often loud and simplistic arguments of &#8220;pro-life&#8221; vs. &#8220;pro-choice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Attendant to the social inequalities that shape the lives of marginalized women, the &#8220;reproductive justice&#8221; framework was first created by women of color to work against &#8220;reproductive oppression&#8221; &#8212;\u00a0the exploitation of women, girls, and others through their reproduction, labor, and sexuality.<\/p>\n<p>Reproductive justice has four goals:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>(a) the raising of children in safe and healthy environments,<\/li>\n<li>(b) planned and healthy\u00a0pregnancies,<\/li>\n<li>(c) ending or avoidance of unwanted pregnancies, and<\/li>\n<li>(d) expression\u00a0of sexuality.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It works to address the myriad issues facing women in the context of<br \/>\ntheir reproductive lives.<\/p>\n<p>The achievement of reproductive justice requires a paradigm shift in consciousness\u00a0for many people and radical transformation of society.<\/p>\n<p>As a long-term change\u00a0strategy, reproductive justice requires resources and sustained organizing and\u00a0momentum.<\/p>\n<p>[Portions of this announcement adapted from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uua.org\/reproductive\/calling\/curriculum\/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Reproductive Justice Curriculum for Congregations<\/em><\/a>.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please join us on Sunday (25 January 2015) at 9:30 AM for our adult religious education class. This week, we are taking a break from our Nature&#8217;s God study group. Melissa Gibson will be facilitating a discussion on reproductive justice &#8212; our denomination&#8217;s 2012-2016 social justice study action issue (Reproductive Justice: Expanding Our Social Justice &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/2015\/01\/24\/25-january-2015-adult-religious-education\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;25 January 2015 Adult Religious Education&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religious-education","category-social-justice"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4151"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4156,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4151\/revisions\/4156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}