WIT Posts
Posts by authors on Women in Theology.
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Fratelli Tutti and the Importance of the Histor(ical Theolog)ian
Namely, at several points in the encyclical, Pope Francis discusses the importance of learning from our history. He discusses this in relation to learning from the pandemic in chapter one, but also earlier bemoans a lack of historical consciousness more… Continue reading
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A Spirit of Change
At the time of writing, Christians across the world are celebrating the feast of Pentecost which traditionally takes place fifty days after Easter Sunday (from the Greek Πεντηκοστή (Pentēkostē) meaning ‘fiftieth’). Despite Pentecost not necessarily receiving the attention which Christmas and… Continue reading
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What is God? A Series (Part 3: God is Love)
How many songs have we heard in our lifetimes that are about love? How many poems have we read that have something to do with love – love lost or love gained? How many stories that have touched our hearts… Continue reading
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What is God? A Series (Part 2: God as our Good Shepherd)
In this post, I’d like to share with you the way I imagine God, the way I attempt to wrap my mind around whatever it is we are referring to when we say that word. This is a task that… Continue reading
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Embracing my failure
I have spent the past few months wrestling with the idea of failure. What are the full consequences of failing? How does God see my failures? How ought the gospel upend my own view of failure – for myself and… Continue reading
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What is God? A Series (Part 1: Approaching the Question)
When I began looking for a college at the age of 17, I went to my guidance counselor’s office. I told them I needed help finding the right college. I was pretty sure I wanted to become a professor, but… Continue reading
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The God Who Sees Me: Childlessness and Annunciations
Mother’s Day is a hard day for many people, for a variety of reasons. If anything, this is amplified in Christian circles, where motherhood is often treated not as a sacred vocation but the sacred vocation for all women, accompanied… Continue reading
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Anointing Women
On this day, where in the Christian East Christ descends to the dead, and raises Adam and Eve as a representation of raising all people, male, female, and all those who travel between those two poles of variously sexed/gendered creation,… Continue reading
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Academia’s Disease, and the Hope of Theologizing After Whiteness
“… they press us into a soul-killing performativity aimed at the exhibition of mastery, possession, and control with the tacit assumption that this ongoing work of exhibition illumines talent and the capacity for leadership…. The problem here is that it… Continue reading
