2014
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A Possibly Too Pelagian Post: Making New Year’s Resolutions
2014 is almost over and, although I’m at risk of sounding horribly Pelagian in all this, we can resolve to do what we can to make 2015 better for ourselves. Continue reading
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On Ferguson and Property
I’m tired of people sharing pictures of folks in Ferguson who are stopping looting. While I understand the impulse, attempting to show that there are a multiplicity of responses to the verdict and that not everyone feels the same about… Continue reading
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Dear White People and Black Liberal Aspirations
*Spoilers Below Justin Simien’s film Dear White People, is a smart, funny, satire (with a handful of surprising twists along the way) that complicates black twenty-somethings’ negotiation of blackness at a predominately white institution of higher education. Aesthetically the film… Continue reading
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Immoral Inhospitality
Edit: Due to the controversy caused by Fr. Robert Arida’s original post, Metropolitan Tikhon of the Orthodox Church in America chose to remove the post and replace it with his own reflection. The overwhelmingly hostile responses remain. You may read… Continue reading
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Sex And Social Justice At the Synod on the Family
The Synod of Bishops on the Family has begun. Pope Francis convened this synod nearly a year ago in order to address “concerns which were unheard of until a few years ago,” including but not limited to phenomena like “the… Continue reading
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Modern-Day Jansenism?
Back before I joined the Women in Theology blog, a theologian-blogger friend asked me if I wanted to write something about modern-day Jansenism in the Catholic Church. I told him that I wasn’t yet comfortable making such claims. Part of… Continue reading
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Whiteness and Inheritance: A Humble Proposal
I don’t much like the term “white privilege.” Mainly the term strikes me as an interpersonal framework that gets substituted on when talking about structural oppression. It also carries an assumption of being necessarily a positive or beneficial thing to the… Continue reading
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Silence, Solidarity and Grief: responding again to A Queer Calling
Given the cost of speaking out, the divisiveness of the issue, I don’t know what offering solidarity on the part of A Queer Calling might mean given the cost that comes with solidarity. I do think it requires honestly facing… Continue reading
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Stories are Never Just Stories: a response to “Our Celibate Gay Agenda”
Sarah and Lindsey at A Queer Calling finally laid out their celibate gay agenda: A Queer Calling came to be at a time when we felt a need for more meaningful interaction with other people on topics such as celibacy,… Continue reading