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Our Faith in Healthcare editor this week published articles profiling Rev. Angela Cowser, a Presbyterian minister, Louisville Seminary associate dean, and co-chair of the Institute for Christian Socialism--in Jacobin magazine-- and Rabbi Michael Feinberg, director of the Greater New York Labor-Religion Coalition, veteran of successful living wage campaigns, and an active member of the Religious Socialism Working Group of the DSA--in Commonweal magazine.
After exit polls this month showed 72% of voters wanted Medicare for All, we are excited for this November 24th Multifaith Forum on Medicare for All, including Rev. David W. Greene, Sr., Rabbi Jordana Chernow-Reader, Hebah Kassem, and Fr. Charles Allen, co-sponsored by Medicare for All Indiana and the Religious Socialism Committee of Central Indiana DSA.
“When we have a health care system that does not care for millions, when we have vacant apartments sitting above people who are sleeping in the streets, we need to move beyond just management of inequality,” says Rev. Andrew Wilkes, a Baptist minister who is active in the Religion and Socialism group of the Democratic Socialists of America. Thanks to The Bias, the magazine for the Institute for Christian Socialism, for first publishing this article by our editor.
"Roman Catholic and Christian Socialism author John Cort gave talks at Catholic parishes where he read excerpts from papal encyclicals and asked the audience to guess their author. The most common response was Karl Marx." Thank you to U.S. Catholic magazine for publishing this article by our editor.