2021
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A Beast of Burden
I tried to make this Christmas a little more “spiritual” this year. I started reading my bible a few weeks ago and meditating on the story of Christ’s birth, as well as his subsequent ministry on earth. I don’t really… Continue reading
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Jubilee
It’s been over a year since I last shared something here at WIT Blog, but it hasn’t been for lack of trying. The last two years of weathering a mini-apocalypse/global pandemic has been world-shifting in so many ways, some that… Continue reading
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An Emptiness that Is Not Empty:
Get Back, Yoko Ono, and the Art of Performance In 1964, two years before she met John Lennon, Yoko Ono exhibited Cut Piece, one of the earliest works of feminist performance art. For Cut Piece, Ono wore a suit and knelt onstage… Continue reading
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Home
A small word with big connotations. It is a word I have been thinking about a great deal lately, and a concept which has led me to think a little deeper about the spiritual and practical meaning which our homes… Continue reading
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Mary, The Autonomous
We are glad to share this guest post from Beth Anne Fisher. Beth Anne is a PhD candidate in Theology and the current Spiritual and Community Life Coordinator at Emmanuel College, Toronto School of Theology. Her research interests are in… Continue reading
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Ontological Difference: A Poem
WIT welcomes Madeline Jarrett as a guest poster with her poem “Ontological Difference.” Continue reading
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The “Big Bad” Conversion Narrative
At the beginning of this semester one of my students suggested that I might like the TV show, Lucifer. I had mentioned in class that I had recently finished watching the Originals and so was looking for something else to… Continue reading
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Old Worlds, New Futures: A Review of Jessica Pegis’s The God Painter
The God Painter is a captivating work of science fiction that takes place in the year 2035. This genre is a form of speculative writing with established literary conventions, but what makes this novel particularly unique is the spiritual perspective… Continue reading
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Defending Monica (again)
But perhaps heterosexual desire needs a prior liberation to prepare it for such adventures. First it needs to call out abuse, and then it must refuse its thrall. And then, and only then, can the “great times” be won. Continue reading
