The Common Good

Melissa Browning

Melissa Browning is the Graduate Program Director for the MA in Social Justice and Community Development at Loyola University Chicago’s Institute of Pastoral Studies. Her work focuses primarily on sexual ethics and bioethics. She is currently writing on Christian marriage in light of the African HIV and AIDS epidemic. Her book on this project, When Marriage Becomes Risky, will be published later this year. Melissa is also an ordained Baptist minister through the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. Learn more about Melissa’s work on her website: www.melissabrowning.com. Her post appears via Odyssey Networks.

Blog Posts by Melissa Browning

On Scripture: Climate Change and Setting the World on Fire
Posted by Melissa Browning 14 weeks 5 days ago
It was Earth Day, 1988. I was in my fifth grade “Earth Science” class, a place where one might expect to talk about the importance of caring for the earth. But this was not what we were talking about...
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David, Bathsheba, Grace, and AIDS
Posted by Melissa Browning 42 weeks 3 days ago
In the 31 years since the discovery of HIV and AIDS, nearly 30 million people have died from the virus with 34 million people currently living with the disease.The epidemic is at its worst in sub-...
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