2016
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Using the F Word in Theology
In 2011, I was asked to lead a women’s retreat in which attendants would come from divergent, and at times antithetical, walks of life. I knew there would be conservative, moderate and progressive women of various ages participating in this… Continue reading
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Alewives: Brewing Ale, Brewing Controversy
Some of what I have been reading recently has helped me reflect on the complex ways religious communities portray godliness and immorality when it comes to economic activity and gender. These reflections have come from a somewhat surprising source: the history of… Continue reading
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Healing and Reconciliation: the hope after injustice
WIT is happy to publish another guest post from Nancy Blackman. You can read her first post for WIT here. She describes herself in the following way: “I love all things food like a female version of Anthony Bourdain. I… Continue reading
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Bread and Cup, Bodies and Abuse
I spend a good bit of time listening to adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse reflect on ways that the worship and theology of their faith communities impacted their experience of abuse, its traumatic consequences, and their subsequent ability to… Continue reading
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Elie Wiesel and the Refusal of Theodicy
Elie Wiesel’s death, like his writing, is unassimilable. It resists any attempt to summarize his significance, his purpose or his meaning. We know that the world is less beautiful and less humane since this man of peace has died, but… Continue reading
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Charity and Judgment: Or, How to Read Sinful Theologians
Any brief study of Christian theologians throughout the centuries will inevitably shine light on these troubling actions and behaviors. So we’re left in an awkward position when it comes to reading and using these theologians. Are we supposed to simply… Continue reading
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On Floods and Beauty: A Gospel Reflection Two Weeks after the West Virginia Floods
I experience great joy in listening to the spirituality of the child, in experiencing with them the discovery of life and of God. This summer some children and youth at my parish are growing a small garden, and we are… Continue reading
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Here’s the Church, Here’s the Steeple, Go to the Gift Shop, and See All the People
As a temporary resident in the European Union, for the past nine months I have visited a large number of Christian churches: medieval churches, modern churches, round churches, churches-turned-Soviet-museum… lots of churches. Like with anything in large quantities, it is… Continue reading
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How a Protestant Seminary Set This Catholic Woman Free
I have spent the last three years in a place where it is normal for women to preach and preside. For Catholics this is far from a given. It was in this context that my own call could rise up… Continue reading
