WIT Posts
Posts by authors on Women in Theology.
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Doing Theology in Church
Are either ministers or theologians adequately equipped to provide theological education in church—the one with their competing pastoral demands, and the other with their fancy jargon and more footnotes than is probably healthy? Continue reading
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Care for Our Common Home during Covid 19.
I originally wrote this reflection about a month ago but was unable to finish it sufficiently due to an unplanned trip into hospital, motherhood and ongoing PhD research. I believe however that this has had its advantages as the extra… Continue reading
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The Stories We Tell: Progressive Rewriting of History
While Oregon was never a slave-holding state, our economic success was significantly built on the labor of black and brown bodies. Innovations, like pre-paid healthcare, are developed when that labor is valued, and dropped when it is no longer useful.… Continue reading
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Yes, It’s Ok To Like Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Play Hamilton (even on the Fourth of July)
The critics are wrong: Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical “Hamilton” doesn’t “whitewash” our history; it allows us to tell the truth about it. Continue reading
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The Dismantling of Myths
The mostly non-traditional celebrations of the Fourth of July that will be required this year seem fitting, as many of the traditional myths we (white) Americans tell ourselves about the country we celebrate have been recently destabilized: the myth that… Continue reading
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On John Ortberg and Menlo Church
Update: Here is a timeline of events. I remember telling my mom about the “Tony Jones debacle” (see this related post, or more usefully, see the links at the end) and stating: “I think Stephanie,” referring to Stephanie Drury of… Continue reading
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“What About Rape?” Gender, Violence, and Policing
“They have treated the wound of my people carelessly, saying, ‘Peace, peace’, when there is no peace.”[1] There has been a significant shift in the public conversation around policing in the last few weeks. Calls for dramatic reforms, defunding, and… Continue reading
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Be Troubled (by the Spirit)!
We are troubled, and we live in troubled times, and maybe that trouble is the Spirit, moving, shaking, wandering, cracking open our illusions and prejudices, exposing our insides so that new life can burst forth. Continue reading
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Renovating Tradition: Insights from Dorothee Soelle (Part One)
Soelle’s feminism simultaneously takes seriously the patriarchal history of Christianity and remains committed to the search for the liberative heart of the Gospel. Continue reading
