Guest Post
Periodically, WIT publishes posts by friends of the blog. Read them here!
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Tracing the Same Lines: A Quasi-Evangelical Response to the Nashville Statement
From here it is a short step to denying the full humanity of women and anyone else deemed Other. This is the primary consequence of a binary theological anthropology born of a non-Trinitarian creation theology. Continue reading
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When Empathy Fails Us: George Saunders, Joseph Ratzinger, and Our Need for Discernment
But I want to know what happens after that intimate encounter. I want to know if empathy alone is sufficient to inspire the kind of change, progress, and self-improvement that Saunders so compellingly presents in his novel, and that many… Continue reading
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Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman
Motherhood is a defining moment for many women. So for those of us who cannot, or choose not to, become mothers, how are we to understand ourselves as women? Continue reading
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From Exiles to Exilers: Ezra’s Mistaken Crusade for Divorce
Women in Theology is happy to publish a guest post from Alexis James Waggoner. Alexis is a theologian and educator. She teaches at Belmont University and is the founder of The Acropolis Project (http://theacropolisproject.com), an organization dedicated to raising the… Continue reading
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Kim Burrell and the Power and Pleasure of Authority: On Sexuality and Transformative Justice in the Black Church
I was unsurprised to hear of Kim Burrell’s recent comments about gay men and lesbians and, one can infer from the tenor of the video that she feels the same about queer and trans folks of all shades and stripes.… Continue reading
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Science, the Divine, and Holy Culture
At plot level, Orphan Black is dealing with high level themes of genetic modification, women’s bodies, and agency, with deeply empathic (female) characters. At a theological level, the relationships that develop among the clone “sisters” offer a secular and very… Continue reading
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The Liberative Theology of Silence
I’ve recently been thinking about the connections between Gustavo Gutiérrez, the incomparable theologian who was integral to the development of liberation theology, and the novelist Shusako Endo. More particularly, I’m interested in the implications found in the connection between liberation… Continue reading
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Healing and Reconciliation: the hope after injustice
WIT is happy to publish another guest post from Nancy Blackman. You can read her first post for WIT here. She describes herself in the following way: “I love all things food like a female version of Anthony Bourdain. I… Continue reading
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Charity and Judgment: Or, How to Read Sinful Theologians
Any brief study of Christian theologians throughout the centuries will inevitably shine light on these troubling actions and behaviors. So we’re left in an awkward position when it comes to reading and using these theologians. Are we supposed to simply… Continue reading
