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Resilience for others
This post was originally delivered as a sermon at First Mennonite Church in Kitchener, ON as part of a series looking at “Songs of Hope and Resilience.” The scripture text was Exodus 15: 20 – 21: Then the prophet Miriam, Aaron’s… Continue reading
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The Many Manifestations of Mary
I want to begin this piece with the caveat that it is not at all an academic essay on Mary, or even a comprehensive guide. It is however, a collection of some of my thoughts and reflections on a subject… Continue reading
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Daughters of Eve: An Interview with Director Zanah Thirus
Daughters of Eve is a new documentary film that sets out to dismantle misogyny and gender hierarchy within Christianity. The film has already won awards at the Black Swan International Film Festival and the Toronto International Women’s Film Festival. Director… Continue reading
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Epiphany: A Story of Intersecting Religious Traditions
Christians are now living liturgically in the fourth week after Epiphany, but perhaps it’s not too late to keep thinking about the Magi—those three “kings,” “wise men,” magicians, and/or astrologers we’ve been singing about during Christmas. In 200 C.E., Tertullian… Continue reading
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The Unfortunate Affair of Karl Barth
Last year, Christiane Tietz’s Karl Barth: A Life in Conflict was published in English for the first time.[1] Although the true nature of Karl Barth’s relationship with his secretary, assistant, and “co-labourer”[2] Charlotte von Kirschbaum has been public for some… Continue reading
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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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A Beast of Burden
I tried to make this Christmas a little more “spiritual” this year. I started reading my bible a few weeks ago and meditating on the story of Christ’s birth, as well as his subsequent ministry on earth. I don’t really… Continue reading
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Jubilee
It’s been over a year since I last shared something here at WIT Blog, but it hasn’t been for lack of trying. The last two years of weathering a mini-apocalypse/global pandemic has been world-shifting in so many ways, some that… Continue reading
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An Emptiness that Is Not Empty:
Get Back, Yoko Ono, and the Art of Performance In 1964, two years before she met John Lennon, Yoko Ono exhibited Cut Piece, one of the earliest works of feminist performance art. For Cut Piece, Ono wore a suit and knelt onstage… Continue reading
