2011

  • Haiti and American History

    Today marks the one year anniversary of the Haitian earthquake that killed around 316,000 people, injured around 300,000 people, and left over 1,000,000 homeless.  On this day, I think it important not only that we remember and pray for the… Continue reading

  • 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

  • Augustine, sexuality, and rape

    Augustine’s largely condemnatory attitude toward sexuality is no secret. Though he does not assign the status of primal sin to sexuality that’s run amuck (that status is reserved for pride), he does aver that in light of Adam and Eve’s… Continue reading

  • To Augustine: I love you, I love you not

    Lately I’ve been doing an exam question on the topic of love of self (amor sui) in the thought of Augustine of Hippo.  Over the past few years, I have begun thinking about the legitimacy and importance of love of… Continue reading

  • A Follow-Up To “Incarceration, Racism, and the Preservation of White Supremacy”

    I came across this post by Sara Mayeux, who is guest-blogging for Ta-Nehisi Coates over at The Atlantic.  In it she directs our attention to a podcast by two historians of mass incarceration.  From this podcast, she excerpts for us… Continue reading

  • Incarceration, Racism, and the Preservation of White Supremacy

    Today, “the United States imprisons a larger percentage of its black population than South African did at the height of apartheid…In the District of Columbia, [for example,] it is estimated that three out of four young black men (and nearly… Continue reading