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Making Community with Music
Liturgy makes us who we are, who we are called to be. It is deeply formative: the words we pray, the way we move our bodies, the stillness of the moment, the music that lingers well after the precise words… Continue reading
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An Historian’s Reaction to Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization
To my eye, as a piece of historical analysis Dobbs is weak. Its reasoning is circular and lacks contextualization, and its chronology is poor. That’s not to say it doesn’t make some defensible points, but its historical arguments are not among them. Continue reading
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Mary, Martha, and Feminism: Check your systems!
My brother clergy, before you publicly declare as white men that a text isn’t feminist, please, check your system. When the church, and the society in which the church finds itself, isn’t sexist, when we can’t remember a time that… Continue reading
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Open Eucharist: a Habitual Binding of God?
I do not believe that as a priest, I should be in the business of binding the profligate abundance of God to a particular linear, cognitive, or traditional process. As a priest, I bind what I see before me, the… Continue reading
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Selfishness & Arrogance: Creating the Feminist Bogey Woman
As feminist writers and activists advocated for abortion access, or announced they were eschewing marriage and motherhood, these choices could only be seen as evidence of their selfishness by these critical commentators. Continue reading
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Conjure, Plan, Debate, Convince: Justice over the long-haul
Strategize. Shift the boundaries. Make new laws and revoke old ones. Vote, campaign, create local safe spaces that trickle up. Go read books that show just how slow social change is, and then spend time “conjuring, planning, debating, and convincing.” Continue reading
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For the Empowerment of Nonbinary and Trans People
I am the parent of a trans teenager, the president of my local PFLAG chapter, a feminist theologian, and the pastor of an historically LGBTQ congregation. For these reasons, I spend a lot of my time thinking in both popular… Continue reading
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Caught off Guard by Grace
Last night I participated in an ecumenical series hosted by the Metro DC Synod of the ELCA, One in the Spirit. Speakers were asked to share a moment they were surprised by God. This is what I shared, (with some… Continue reading
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RIP to a pioneer
Rosemary Radford Ruether. 1936 – 2022 “The reimagining of families by progressive people of faith demands more than just protest against these consequences of Christian Right views. It calls for the articulation of alternative values that promote a more authentic… Continue reading
