Julia

  • Halloween Costuming: Some Feminist Basics

    Women’s choices about how to present their bodies are so severely restricted to the point that it is difficult, even impossible to know whether I would ever be able to tell whether I would ever want to wear a sexy… Continue reading

  • Trauma, Suffering and Childbirth

    The trauma of sexual abuse and rape benefit from a clear understanding of suffering as bestowing no kind of benefit to the victim and as entirely opposed by God. Yet, the suffering of childbirth is a different case. But, this… Continue reading

  • Reflections on Holy Saturday with Shelly Rambo

    The problem with a typical narration of salvation is that we tend to have a linear understanding of redemption. We read the story of Jesus’s life, death, and resurrection in terms of a strong start, an awful middle, and an… Continue reading

  • Karl Rahner on the Assumption of Mary

    “If God’s grace is doing in us what it did in her, than we too are blessed by grace, and beloved.” Continue reading

  • Reflections on Pregnancy

    Being pregnant is hard. Continue reading

  • Violence, Memory, and Mourning

    When artists put into words non-dominant narratives of violence we are able to rehearse alternatives forms of remembering— forms of remembering which defy language as defined exclusively by the powerful, which resist a culture of secrecy and silence which is… Continue reading

  • Courage and the Church

    It is heartbreaking to hear misogynist, homophobic, racist coming from the same white man every Sunday at church, when I can look around and see that there are so many other important voices that should be heard belonging to the… Continue reading

  • Beginning: Holding the Horn

    It is absolutely necessary to be able to look in the mirror, see your own face, and know: this is the face of a theologian. Continue reading