2017
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Hair Hermeneutics: Black Hair and Christianity
If you know anything about black women, you probably know that hair can be a touchy subject. For black women, our hair history is complex, to say the least. From the time of capture during the trans-Atlantic slave trade, black… Continue reading
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Let’s get strategic: White women in resistance to the Trump cultural-political machine
I’m going to go ahead and assume that everyone reading this knows that white women have a historical tendency to live and act in racist ways. It was true when the suffragettes intentionally excluded black women in order to appear… Continue reading
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Coffin Ships and Hypocrisy: A Lament for Irish-America
About half of my ancestors immigrated to this country as a result of the aftermath of Irish famine, an event in which people were found dead on the side of the road walking hopelessly in search of food with grass stained… Continue reading
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White Feelings, Presidential Lies: POTUS and the Myth of the Illegal Immigrant Voter
Last year, POTUS and his people were sure that the 2016 election would be rigged. This year, they have sought to discredit his loss in the popular vote: according to them, his three million vote deficit reflects not the will… Continue reading
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From Exiles to Exilers: Ezra’s Mistaken Crusade for Divorce
Women in Theology is happy to publish a guest post from Alexis James Waggoner. Alexis is a theologian and educator. She teaches at Belmont University and is the founder of The Acropolis Project (http://theacropolisproject.com), an organization dedicated to raising the… Continue reading
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Kim Burrell and the Power and Pleasure of Authority: On Sexuality and Transformative Justice in the Black Church
I was unsurprised to hear of Kim Burrell’s recent comments about gay men and lesbians and, one can infer from the tenor of the video that she feels the same about queer and trans folks of all shades and stripes.… Continue reading