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  • The Bible and Me

    For the first time in my career, I am teaching a course devoted to the study of Scripture. Titled “The Bible and Its Interpreters,” the course introduces students to the field of biblical hermeneutics. After a couple of weeks sketching… Continue reading

    The Bible and Me

  • Research Projects, Reading, and the “Movements of Divine Grace”

    To the readers of WIT, I ask: What are your reading practices? Especially those who are academic theologians, what do you read? How often to you read outside of your own research area? Continue reading

    Research Projects, Reading, and the “Movements of Divine Grace”

  • Held in the Memory of God

    Part of the spiritual care work that I do is with people who have dementia. Different stages, different diagnoses, different ways that people are living with changes in memory and language. Since getting more deeply into this work, I have… Continue reading

    Held in the Memory of God

  • An Ecofeminist Read of John 4:1-30

    In the early to mid 1970’s, Françoise d’Eaubonne and Vandana Shiva coined the term Ecofeminism. Ecofeminism was introducing a “theory and praxis that has committed to coming together with the conviction that dialogue will enrich both [feminism and environmentalism]”. Both… Continue reading

    An Ecofeminist Read of John 4:1-30

  • Let us be Egyptians, Like Shiphrah and Puah

    This is a sermon given at St David’s Uniting Church, Newtwon, Victoria, Australia, August 23, 2026, based on the reading Exodus 1:8-2:10. Shiphrah and Puah. I have said before that women often don’t get a starring role in the Hebrew… Continue reading

    Let us be Egyptians, Like Shiphrah and Puah

  • ‘Death of The Pastor’s Wife’

    Have you ever known that a man was bad news, but you watched him enter relationship after relationship never saying a word as an unsuspecting new woman becomes part of his life? Maybe you didn’t say anything because of who… Continue reading

    ‘Death of The Pastor’s Wife’

  • In Memory of Dolly

    Dolly Parton has died, and I am bereft. I don’t claim special connection. I don’t even feel I had a parasocial relationship—I know she was special to millions of us, and my heart breaks for the people who were truly… Continue reading

    In Memory of Dolly

  • A Feminist Historical Theologian’s Summer Reading List, Part II: A Review of Ian McEwan’s What We Can Know

    It is this idea of the limits to our understanding that I found so fascinating because it connects so well with my feminist historical theology project. Continue reading

    A Feminist Historical Theologian’s Summer Reading List, Part II: A Review of Ian McEwan’s What We Can Know