2016
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He Got It From His Mama? The Christian Case for Transgender Equality
Here is what I want to say to Christians for whom the fact that “transgender people are clearly happier and healthier and more fully alive when they are allowed to be transgender” is not a good enough reason to accept… Continue reading
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Reframing Feminist Waves: one historian’s repentance
In the first year of my PhD studies in the History of Christianity, I found myself researching early twentieth-century feminist activists. A coursework research paper drew me to focus on the Ontario chapter of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union… Continue reading
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Towards Good News
In Paul’s response, we recognize how incomplete our efforts to love others are. We live in a world where sometimes there seems to be no perfectly good choice. In the slave girl, we recognize what it is like to be… Continue reading
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The God Who Sees Me
From as far back as my mind can go, to the age of four, I have felt a deep sense of call by God. I sought to address this call by studying Religion/Theology from a Catholic University. Soon after reception… Continue reading
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Caregiving, creaturely limits, and the academic life
I am three years out of coursework for my doctoral program, and I have just finally taken (and passed!) my comprehensive exams. This is not something I share lightly. In fact, I normally avoid communicating this to others – especially… Continue reading
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Beyoncé, LEMONADE and a Womanist Theology
If you have been on the internet since Saturday night, you have heard about Beyoncé’s new visual album titled LEMONADE. In true Beyoncé fashion, her work has people from all corners of social media weighing in. From celebrations of Black… Continue reading
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No “Church Mothers”? That Seems Doubtful
So, again, I ask: do we really have “no historical record” of Church Mothers? This seems to me to be an oversimplification of the period and a lack of understanding about women’s voices in the history of Christianity. Continue reading
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All Girls, All the Time
I teach girls. I teach them religious studies and philosophy; primarily, though, I teach them. I help them think, I encourage their questioning, I support them through their adolescent years. The subject is a bonus. But teaching to all girls… Continue reading
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A Trophy or a Drug? Sex and the Eucharist in Pope Francis’s Pastoral Letter on the Family
In the contemporary Catholic church, debates about sexual ethics often underlie debates about the Eucharist and vice versa. No wonder then that the pope’s recent pastoral letter, Amoris Laetitia–a document that focuses explicitly on whether certain sexual sinners should be allowed… Continue reading