2011

  • Karl Rahner on the Assumption of Mary

    “If God’s grace is doing in us what it did in her, than we too are blessed by grace, and beloved.” Continue reading

  • WIT and WIM

    I recently spent a week visiting two very dear friends from my master’s program and their daughter (my goddaughter). Between work schedules, travels along the coast, and the daily chaos of life with a toddler, the three of us managed… Continue reading

  • “The Bombs Bursting In Air”

    From my youngest days I relished our family’s annual outing to a local July 4th fireworks display, sometimes nearby in the nation’s capital; what I remember of the end of the vaguely adventurous-sounding Operation Desert Storm, for instance, was the… Continue reading

  • Is Sexual Complementarity An Argument Against Same-Sex Relationships?

    In addition to being used as an argument against artificial birth control and women’s ordination, sexual complementarity is also put forth as an argument against the goodness of same-sex relationships. According to this thinking, the procreative compatibility of male and… Continue reading

  • Reflections on Pregnancy

    Being pregnant is hard. Continue reading

  • Just Hoops: Thoughts on Gender and Basketball

    I’ve often wondered whether the wood of the basketball court as much as that of the church pew became the springboard for my incipient feminist consciousness. Long before theology there were sports, especially basketball. As we know, a predilection for… Continue reading

  • Smile, ladies!–Or not.

    I’m taking a brief break from my “Weight, Food, and God” posts to discuss something almost negligible. Almost. This post will have none of the depth, academic acumen, or gravitas of all of the recent posts my fellow WITs have… Continue reading

  • A Double-Standard for Women and Violence In the Media?

    Recently, 23 year old R&B singer Rihanna released the music video for her song, “Man Down” in which she sings of the agony and terror she feels after killing a man who raped her.   In response, at least four… Continue reading

  • Artificial Insemination: St. Augustine’s Ideal Sex Act?

    The Catholic magisterium considers artificial insemination to be wrong, even in the case of a wife being artificially inseminated by her husband.  As Donum Vitae argues, “artificial insemination within marriage cannot be admitted except for those cases in which the… Continue reading