Guest Post
Periodically, WIT publishes posts by friends of the blog. Read them here!
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A Perspective of Christianity on Civil Disobedience: A Study of Hong Kong’s Occupy Central and the Umbrella Movement
Some Christians, due to their faith convictions and civic duty, have taken part by engaging in nonviolent protests. How do Hong Kong Christians reconcile their faith with the civic actions going on around them? And how can we learn from… Continue reading
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“Dancing for Our Lives”: An Eco-Somatic Theology for Climate Crisis
Yet, in keeping embodiment in the realm of metaphor, ecotheologians miss an opportunity to contend with the embodied knowledges that lived experiences can produce. The field of dance studies offers alternative perspectives that perceive our bodily selves as the generative… Continue reading
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Celebrating Mary this Christmas
When I encounter a nativity scene on someone’s front lawn, in a church, or on a Christmas card, I am often drawn to Mary. We know so little about her, and yet she has been used in so many ways.… Continue reading
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On the Occasion of my Child’s Baptism; Or, On the Importance of Women’s and LGBTQ Persons’ Ordination
Feminists have long reflected on the ways in which “Mother Church,” with its historically male clergy, has taken up the tasks historically related to women. Priests don women’s clothing as they replace women in authority, baptize children as they co-opt… Continue reading
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Catholic Teaching Changes: Women in the Workplace
WIT welcomes the following guest post from Kate Ward. Kate is Assistant Professor of Theological Ethics at Marquette University. She researches and teaches economic ethics, virtue ethics and ethical method, and is completing a monograph exploring the impact of wealth,… Continue reading
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The Experience of Contingent Faculty
What I’ve learned on the job market is that Catholic universities have to do some serious soul-searching in relation to their labor practices because none of what I’m going through is in line with the social teaching of the Catholic… Continue reading
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Language and Dialogue Amid Darkness
I realize I might not have gone to Greece at all, if not for such an event in my life. And although I could not visit the place we both dreamed of going (Patmos/Caves of Revelation), I had to be… Continue reading
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Mainstreaming Women’s Ministries
Kate McElwee and Katie Lacz We know the story – most recently repeated and discussed in ham-handed fashion at the USCCB meeting this month – that the Catholic Church in the U.S. is hemorrhaging people, including young people, and cannot… Continue reading
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What Marriage Could Learn From Holy Orders
WIT again welcomes guest poster Sarah Elizabeth Smith. Sarah’s bio can be found at the top of her first post with us here. I often wonder at why our culture celebrates people for getting married having only known each other for… Continue reading
