WIT Posts
Posts by authors on Women in Theology.
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The Light I am Waiting For
I was a teenager the first time I experienced the meaning of advent. My meaning-making didn’t happen at church but at home as I hid in my room, away from my family, from their fighting and screaming. I was angry—I… Continue reading
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The darkness shall not overcome it.
Yesterday was Gaudete Sunday, traditionally a joyful interruption in the midst of an advent season otherwise characterized by somber waiting and postures of penance. Being at a non-lectionary church, we read and our pastor preached on John 1. The light… Continue reading
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Toward an Agnostic-Humanistic Theology of Pastoral Care
I do not experience belief in God at present, and I have not for several years, though I continue to value others’ experiences of God, including the experiences of my past selves. What I value most now, after God, is… Continue reading
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Sallie McFague: Sparker of Theological Imagination
We at WIT join the broader theological community in mourning the passing of Sallie McFague. As an important voice in the theological world for many decades, Sallie McFague has made an impression on many a bright-eyed student of theology. My… Continue reading
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Are You a Woman in Theology?
We are now looking to expand our blogging team! In order to qualify, you must be a woman with experience in the academic study of Christian theology–either as a graduate student or as a professor–and committed to the liberation of… Continue reading
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Religion, Women, Poetry
It’s both difficult and necessary to counter the rationalist mode of speaking (and thinking, for that matter) that has dominated Christian theology for centuries, especially within Western traditions that prize reason and intellectualism as superior forms of knowing. These associations… Continue reading
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Fat Pills and Sexbots: A serious Orthodox engagement with sexual diversity
The implication is that sexually active same-sex intercourse is an enterprise characterized by an impersonal and utterly hedonistic lack of discipline. This is hardly a new analysis of same-sex sex. What is so utterly shocking, and as a result, so… Continue reading
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Why I Write for WIT: Exist / Resist
Summer rhythms of life find me less connected to social media. I consciously choose to escape the virtual world as my family and I ground ourselves in the elements: sunshine and earth, ocean and sand. I spent a surprising amount… Continue reading
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Theological Effects of Christians Displaced in Franchise Evangelical Christian Spaces
In The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race, Dr. Willie James Jennings writes an autobiographical introduction to his theological masterpiece on race. We read about an awkward childhood experience where two white men assume his mother,… Continue reading