Elissa
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Death is Your Gift: Self-Sacrifice in Averting Supernatural Apocalypses in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
What I want to look at in this post is not just Christ-figures in general (though this imagery will be brought in), but what connects the self-sacrifices that these Christ-figures undertake, that is, the importance of self-sacrifice in averting an… Continue reading
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Feminism, Laïcité, Marine Le Pen, and the Hijab
There is a lot to dislike about Marine Le Pen in relation to her politics, but I reluctantly support her refusal to wear the headscarf. Continue reading
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Really Useful Christianity: A Critique of Thomas & Friends
Last weekend, both my toddler son and I were sick so we spent some time watching episodes of the British television series Thomas & Friends on Netflix. The more I watched the series, the more it bothered me. In particular,… Continue reading
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No Church Mothers: Part II
Although we do not necessarily have explicit evidence that the women in all of these cases had a theological influence on the men, I just have to name Kerr’s sin in assuming–also without evidence–that they did not: sexism. Why do… Continue reading
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Saint Augustine, Donald Trump, and the Possibility of Change
Since I just finished teaching Augustine’s Confessions in my God and the Human Experience course, I’d like to take the time to explain to those who might not be as familiar with the text why Rudy Giuliani may have chosen… Continue reading
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No “Church Mothers”? That Seems Doubtful
So, again, I ask: do we really have “no historical record” of Church Mothers? This seems to me to be an oversimplification of the period and a lack of understanding about women’s voices in the history of Christianity. Continue reading
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Théologienne, Théologien, Theologian? From Angélique Arnauld to Mary Daly
So this question of what makes a theologian in the seventeenth century isn’t just an academic question for me, but also a personal one. Continue reading
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HeresyLetterGate and Teaching Authority in Theology
What occurs to me in all this, however, is that there is a real question to be raised about who has the authority to teach in the modern Catholic Church. Now, this wasn’t the original issue, but it became part… Continue reading
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Some Reflections on Motherhood and Questions about the “Essence” of Women
I really want there to be something there, something that we can point to and say, “This is where women’s experience differs from men, and this can therefore be a foundation for a theology of and by women.” Unfortunately in… Continue reading
