2020
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Silence.
When I first put pen to paper to write a blogpost on Silence in the lead up to Christmas, my head was full of images of the ‘normal’ busy, buzzy time before and during the Christmas celebrations and my annual… Continue reading
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A Working Mother’s Pandemic Spirituality
There have been a multitude of articles that talk about the mental health issues that are facing working mothers during the pandemic and it seems that this lack of solitude as a space to develop one’s spiritual life is part… Continue reading
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The Nativity and Mission of Jesus
On this third Sunday of Advent, we find ourselves just 11 days from Christmas. It is a special time of year, of course, as we celebrate Jesus’s birth. But sometimes even the best of us can forget about Jesus during… Continue reading
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The God Who Is Coming
The Christian liturgical calendar plays with time. Each Advent, we place ourselves in a space of waiting and anticipating an event that has already happened in a particular moment of historical time—the birth of Jesus. At the same time, we… Continue reading
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Reclaiming Our Tradition
WIT welcomes Janet O. Antico, a Feminist Catholic & advocate for women’s authority and leadership in the Roman Catholic Church as a guest poster. Janet Antico has a Masters in Theology, Concentration in Women’s and Gender Studies, Drew University (Aug.… Continue reading
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Are You a Woman in Theology? Seeking Guest Posters
WIT is looking to expand our blog by adding more regular guest posts! So, if you are a woman with experience in the academic study of Christian theology—either as a graduate student or as a professor—and have some topics that… Continue reading
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Thinking Ecologically
I remember in my first year of seminary I learned about a concept in ministry studies called “thinking theologically.” When I first heard my instructor refer to it in the context of a ministry formation course, I thought that it… Continue reading
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The quiet voices of Empathy and Compassion speak to us.
Empathy and compassion, such vital and life-giving human virtues, are rarely celebrated in today’s popular culture. Covers of magazines and newspapers are filled with celebrities who seem to strive to look better, or to do something more shocking than their… Continue reading
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The Pure Love of God in the Modern World
I read that quote and just felt sad about how far we’ve gone into accepting self-centeredness as the norm. In Lennon’s book, he points out, in contrast, how widespread the assumption was in seventeenth-century France that lack of self-interest should… Continue reading
