2020

If your social media feeds are anything like mine right now, you may be experiencing some ideological whiplash. Ten years ago, Facebook was a place to view poorly-lit pictures of friends’ birthday parties, vacations, and pets; today it’s an ideological… Continue reading

My 7 year-old daughter, a budding theologian, tends to wax poetic when most children do — at bedtime when she has a captive audience and would rather do anything but sleep. The times when I manage to set aside my… Continue reading

Following up an earlier post, I have some further reflections on the work of Dorothee Soelle. In addition to repurposing “God as Father” and Marian imagery, and allowing Freud to retain some of his authority, Soelle also broke with certain… Continue reading

Are either ministers or theologians adequately equipped to provide theological education in church—the one with their competing pastoral demands, and the other with their fancy jargon and more footnotes than is probably healthy? Continue reading

I originally wrote this reflection about a month ago but was unable to finish it sufficiently due to an unplanned trip into hospital, motherhood and ongoing PhD research. I believe however that this has had its advantages as the extra… Continue reading

While Oregon was never a slave-holding state, our economic success was significantly built on the labor of black and brown bodies. Innovations, like pre-paid healthcare, are developed when that labor is valued, and dropped when it is no longer useful.… Continue reading