Elissa
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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
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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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Toward a Feminist Historical Theology: Part II, Feminist Biblical Interpretation
The very structure of Schüssler Fiorenza’s text provides a model for feminist historical theologians to follow. Continue reading
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Toward a Feminist Historical Theology: Part I, Hamilton
What especially stood out for me when watching the musical was also how it dealt with the question of women’s history and I’ve been thinking a lot recently about how to articulate a methodology for a feminist historical theology, spurred… Continue reading
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Fratelli Tutti and the Importance of the Histor(ical Theolog)ian
Namely, at several points in the encyclical, Pope Francis discusses the importance of learning from our history. He discusses this in relation to learning from the pandemic in chapter one, but also earlier bemoans a lack of historical consciousness more… 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 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
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Learning from History: What Can We Do Without the Eucharist?
One of the historical examples that we can look to during this time is the community around the nuns at Port-Royal in seventeenth-century France. Continue reading
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Biblical Inspiration: Reading the Gospel of Matthew During Lent
We can talk about theological ideas, the development of doctrine, and the idea of God as unchanging, but the point is that in spite of all the theoretical aspects of the discussion, it is always human persons writing theological texts.… Continue reading
