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  • Teresa Berger on the Optional Omission of Women

    Or, rather, one woman: Anna, the prophet. Teresa Berger (Professor of Liturgical Studies at Yale Divinity) draws attention to the option created in the Roman Catholic lectionary to omit mention of Anna from Luke’s account of the “Presentation of the Lord,”… Continue reading

  • Feast of St Brigid of Kildare

    February 1 is the feast of St. Brigid of Kildare (a powerful 6th century abbess), about whom I have written in a previous post — did you know that a 9th century hagiography (the Bethu Brigte, originally written in Old Irish)… Continue reading

  • Courage and the Church

    It is heartbreaking to hear misogynist, homophobic, racist coming from the same white man every Sunday at church, when I can look around and see that there are so many other important voices that should be heard belonging to the… Continue reading

  • Demonizing African-American Mothers; Preserving White Space

    On Tuesday in an Ohio courtroom, Kelly Williams-Bolar, a mother of two with no criminal record, was sentenced to 10 days in jail and placed on 3 years probation for sending her children to school in a school district in… Continue reading

  • “Women’s Work Is Real Work!”

    This woman is amazing. Christine Yvette Lewis appeared on The Colbert Show last night to promote the work of an organization called Domestic Workers United, which she describes as “a movement that organizes workers to assert their rights in the… Continue reading

  • Breast Cancer and Structural Racism

    As Dr. David Ansell of Rush University Medical Center in Chicago explains, black women are significantly more likely than white women to die from breast cancer.  The gap is so dramatic that in Chicago, every year, “3,200 black people die… Continue reading

  • Creation Makes Me Dizzy.

    or, Why I Wanted to be an Astrophysicist When I Was a Girl. http://primaxstudio.com/stuff/scale_of_universe/ Anyone needing to meditate on the immensity of creation, I direct you to the above link. Poetic shout-out to Medieval Woman in Theology Julian of Norwich:… Continue reading

  • 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

  • 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