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Jean Vanier and Cancelling Our Darlings
Like many of you, I imagine, the news about Jean Vanier reminds me of my own experiences with weighty, spiritual men—one especially. I haven’t seen him in a few years, but I think about him all the time. I am… Continue reading
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Sin, Grief, and Jean Vanier
The news about L’Arche International founder Jean Vanier hit last week: He “initiated sexual relations” with at least six (non-disabled) women, “usually in the context of spiritual accompaniment.”[1] In other words, he was in a position of power, and that… Continue reading
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Another Round of New Contributors at WIT!
Here at WIT we are very excited to announce the addition of four new regular contributors to the blog! Continue reading
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“And Yet Where in Our History Books is the Tale?”
And yet where in your history books is the taleOf the genocide basic to this country’s birth?Of the preachers who lied? And the people who died? – Buffy Sainte-Marie, “My Country ‘Tis of Thy People You’re Dying, 1966. In late May… Continue reading
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I Didn’t Have High Hopes
I wasn’t imagining that an apostolic exhortation would instantly permit women to be ordained deacons in the Roman Catholic Church. I trust the diaconate for women will unfold in millimeters, but the remote possibility of it in fact happening in my… Continue reading
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Gestational Hospitality: Review of Margaret D. Kamitsuka’s Abortion and the Christian Tradition
“A simplistic pro-choice feminist assertion that the fetus is not a person and therefore has little to no value until birth or near birth is as phenomenologically and culturally myopic as a pro-life Christian assertion that a conceptus is an… Continue reading
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Where Was Philosophia at the AAR Annual Meeting?
One of the things that I really appreciated about the sessions that I chose to attend at the AAR was the prevalence of women’s voices, but I was equally disturbed to hear about the shutting down of women’s voices occurring… Continue reading
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Standing in the Pulpit on Christmas Eve
I preached Christmas Eve with a speck of white plaster from our nearly renovated sacristy on the left shoulder of my lovely black dress. The whole time. Which feels perfect for a working, studying, chaplain-interning mother and spouse. The church… Continue reading
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Sacred Memory: Remember, Remember
My last surviving grandparent — my paternal grandmother — passed away in November. Nanay (1) was 94 years old, the mother of 11 children, grandmother to countless grandchildren. After living in the United States for 30+ years, she was laid… Continue reading
