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For I Was Sick, and You Didn’t Prevent My Family From Visiting Me
I freely admit that’s not the most defensible rephrasing of Matthew 25 — it’s hard to get an argument for the stable nuclear family out of the gospels, and expanding the gender configurations of such families doesn’t diminish that (Jesus… Continue reading
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Will We Be Extremists for Hate or for Love?
“I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that… Continue reading
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To the women in theology Out There
The women of WIT have wanted to take note of the couple requests we’ve received recently from graduate student women at various institutions about joining the WIT blog. Let us just say first how grateful and excited we are that… Continue reading
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Augustine, sexuality, and rape
Augustine’s largely condemnatory attitude toward sexuality is no secret. Though he does not assign the status of primal sin to sexuality that’s run amuck (that status is reserved for pride), he does aver that in light of Adam and Eve’s… Continue reading
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To Augustine: I love you, I love you not
Lately I’ve been doing an exam question on the topic of love of self (amor sui) in the thought of Augustine of Hippo. Over the past few years, I have begun thinking about the legitimacy and importance of love of… Continue reading
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A Follow-Up To “Incarceration, Racism, and the Preservation of White Supremacy”
I came across this post by Sara Mayeux, who is guest-blogging for Ta-Nehisi Coates over at The Atlantic. In it she directs our attention to a podcast by two historians of mass incarceration. From this podcast, she excerpts for us… Continue reading
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Incarceration, Racism, and the Preservation of White Supremacy
Today, “the United States imprisons a larger percentage of its black population than South African did at the height of apartheid…In the District of Columbia, [for example,] it is estimated that three out of four young black men (and nearly… Continue reading
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Some Artistic Reflections on the Annunciation
As Elizabeth mentioned in her first post on Mariology, I find much Marian piety rather difficult to appreciate, for various reasons (feminist, christological, ecumenical, historical-critical). Despite that, I often find myself quite moved by artistic portrayals of the Annunciation, both… Continue reading