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  • Work and Family Balance: Some Open Questions

    Last week I wrote about Anne-Marie’s Slaughter’s piece “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All.” In this post, I attempted to highlight the problematic gender assumptions undergirding Slaughter’s argument, the most important one being the uncritical claim that women qua… Continue reading

  • Feminism lied to me!

    Well, I suppose it’s time to say something about the recently penned, (in)famous Atlantic article “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All” by Anne-Marie Slaughter. In this article, Slaughter explains how, as the first female director of policy planning at the State… Continue reading

  • To Love Great Cities

    Those who know me in real life probably know two things: I have a lot of very curly hair… and I am a city person. So I read with interest Michael Peppard’s Commonweal blog post on “urban theology,” and would encourage… Continue reading

  • A Church That Changes: Margaret Farley and the CDF

    As many of you have probably heard by now, last week, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) officially notified Mercy Sister and professor emeritus of Christian ethics at Yale Divinity School Margaret Farley that her work “cannot… Continue reading

  • Catherine Hilkert, Catherine of Siena, and Awesome Preaching

    In honor of Saint Catherine of Siena (whose feast day usually falls on April 29), and in recognition of the fact that we are still in the midst of the Easter season, we here at WIT have received permission to… Continue reading

  • What Sisters Mean To WIT

    In response to last week’s crackdown on the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, Fr. James Martin, S.J. took to twitter to celebrate and show solidarity with Catholic Sisters  during their time of trial,  inviting Catholics to share with the twitterverse… Continue reading

  • What About the Religious Freedom of Catholic Soldiers?

    As many of you have probably heard by now, last week, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops released a document protesting what they see as an unprecedented attack on religious liberty by the Obama administration. I have lots of… Continue reading

  • On Beauty

    I confess I don’t know much about the subfield of theological aesthetics, but I certainly do think quite a bit about constructions of the beautiful vis-a-vis theological anthropology, specifically, the appearance of human beings, and even more specifically, the appearance… Continue reading

  • Reflections on Holy Saturday with Shelly Rambo

    The problem with a typical narration of salvation is that we tend to have a linear understanding of redemption. We read the story of Jesus’s life, death, and resurrection in terms of a strong start, an awful middle, and an… Continue reading