2022
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Daughters of Eve: An Interview with Director Zanah Thirus
Daughters of Eve is a new documentary film that sets out to dismantle misogyny and gender hierarchy within Christianity. The film has already won awards at the Black Swan International Film Festival and the Toronto International Women’s Film Festival. Director… Continue reading
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Epiphany: A Story of Intersecting Religious Traditions
Christians are now living liturgically in the fourth week after Epiphany, but perhaps it’s not too late to keep thinking about the Magi—those three “kings,” “wise men,” magicians, and/or astrologers we’ve been singing about during Christmas. In 200 C.E., Tertullian… Continue reading
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The Unfortunate Affair of Karl Barth
Last year, Christiane Tietz’s Karl Barth: A Life in Conflict was published in English for the first time.[1] Although the true nature of Karl Barth’s relationship with his secretary, assistant, and “co-labourer”[2] Charlotte von Kirschbaum has been public for some… Continue reading
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Women’s Voices: A Review of Sue Monk Kidd’s The Book of Longings
Toward the end of 2021 I participated in a virtual book club through my alma mater, Georgetown University, in which we read Sue Monk Kidd’s The Book of Longings (Penguin Books, 2020). I really enjoyed this book partly because of… Continue reading
