2018
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The Work of Mourning
Pastoral Reflections on Jacques Derrida’s The Work of Mourning(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002). In his beautiful series of reflections on the deaths of his friends and contemporaries (figures such as Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze and Sarah Kofman), Jacques Derrida writes… Continue reading
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Advent II: And the darkness has not overcome it.
This is a reflection on the readings for the 2nd Sunday of Advent. Click here to see the readings. There’s a fine line between meaningful ritual and mindless repetition. Outwardly, both involve doing/saying the same thing day in and day… Continue reading
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An Introduction to Mental Illness in a Theological Context
WIT welcomes MeganWildhood as a guest contributor. Megan is a creative writer, scuba diver and saxophone player working at a crisis center in Seattle,WA. Her poetry chapbook, LongDivision (Finishing Line Press), is about sororal estrangement and she’s currently working on a novelnarrated… Continue reading
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In One Hand a Sword: Review of Kingdom of Women by Rosalie Morales Kearns
Rosalie Morales Kearns’s Kingdom of Women is a feminist speculative fiction novel that offers a no-holds-barred account of a fictional world in which violence against women is routine and rampant. If this premise feels familiar, it’s because gender-based violence is… Continue reading
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Towards an Ethic of Sacramental Relationality
WIT welcomes Sarah Elizabeth Smith as a guest poster. Sarah is a theologian, teacher and coach at Heritage Hall School in Oklahoma City, OK. She is in the ordination process in the Episcopal Church Diocese of Oklahoma and leads Pub… Continue reading
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The Sex Abuse Crisis in the Catholic Church: What Do We Know and How Can We Continue from Here?
I have received several requests for a copy of the talk I gave in our department as an introduction to an event for undergraduates in which faculty members discussed how they responded to the sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic… Continue reading
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Seeing Power: White Supremacy or Jesus
But the language of hate is so incomplete. Because what’s happening is that the powers that be — and in the United States, the powers that be are white supremacist and anti-black — the powers that be are rising up… Continue reading
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Unholy Trinity: Incel Ideology, Complementarian Theology, and Toxic Masculinity (Part II)
Following up on our discussion of toxic masculinity in our previous post here we want to analyze some parallels between evangelical complementarian theology and the rhetoric found in online misogynist groups. In studying complementarian teachings and reading through incel materials… Continue reading
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Unholy Trinity: Incel Ideology, Complementarian Theology, and Toxic Masculinity (Part I)
On April 23 of this year, our two co-authors were on opposite sides of the Atlantic reading the same news about a horrific incident in Toronto. 10 people were killed and another 16 injured by a man who chose to… Continue reading
