January 2011
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Courage and the Church
It is heartbreaking to hear misogynist, homophobic, racist coming from the same white man every Sunday at church, when I can look around and see that there are so many other important voices that should be heard belonging to the… Continue reading
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Demonizing African-American Mothers; Preserving White Space
On Tuesday in an Ohio courtroom, Kelly Williams-Bolar, a mother of two with no criminal record, was sentenced to 10 days in jail and placed on 3 years probation for sending her children to school in a school district in… Continue reading
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“Women’s Work Is Real Work!”
This woman is amazing. Christine Yvette Lewis appeared on The Colbert Show last night to promote the work of an organization called Domestic Workers United, which she describes as “a movement that organizes workers to assert their rights in the… Continue reading
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Breast Cancer and Structural Racism
As Dr. David Ansell of Rush University Medical Center in Chicago explains, black women are significantly more likely than white women to die from breast cancer. The gap is so dramatic that in Chicago, every year, “3,200 black people die… Continue reading
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Creation Makes Me Dizzy.
or, Why I Wanted to be an Astrophysicist When I Was a Girl. http://primaxstudio.com/stuff/scale_of_universe/ Anyone needing to meditate on the immensity of creation, I direct you to the above link. Poetic shout-out to Medieval Woman in Theology Julian of Norwich:… Continue reading
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For I Was Sick, and You Didn’t Prevent My Family From Visiting Me
I freely admit that’s not the most defensible rephrasing of Matthew 25 — it’s hard to get an argument for the stable nuclear family out of the gospels, and expanding the gender configurations of such families doesn’t diminish that (Jesus… Continue reading
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Will We Be Extremists for Hate or for Love?
“I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that… Continue reading
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To the women in theology Out There
The women of WIT have wanted to take note of the couple requests we’ve received recently from graduate student women at various institutions about joining the WIT blog. Let us just say first how grateful and excited we are that… Continue reading