baptism
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On the Occasion of my Child’s Baptism; Or, On the Importance of Women’s and LGBTQ Persons’ Ordination
Feminists have long reflected on the ways in which “Mother Church,” with its historically male clergy, has taken up the tasks historically related to women. Priests don women’s clothing as they replace women in authority, baptize children as they co-opt… Continue reading
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Kendrick Lamar’s “Good Kid, M.A.A.D City” is Good Theology
Kendrick Lamar’s “Good Kid, M.A.A.D City” spent a good six months spinning inside the CD player of my old school Toyota Corolla. I wasn’t sophisticated enough to learn of it myself: I first heard about it from the blogger Ta-Nehesi… Continue reading
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The Body of Christ In An Era of HIV/AIDS
I watched the Oscar nominated documentary How To Survive a Plague a few weeks ago. It’s been haunting me ever since. Mixing archival video with present day recollections, Plague tells the story of the AIDS advocacy group ACTUP (AIDS Coalition… Continue reading
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Confirmation is not “Baptism of Believers” for Catholics
The most recent controversy concerning punitive denial of sacraments on the basis of political views is this heartbreaking story: the parents of a teenager in Barnesville, MN were told that he would not be confirmed, and that the family could no… Continue reading
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White Supremacy, U.S. Citizenship, and the Body of Christ
This week marked the 2nd anniversary of the Haiti earthquake and the 51st anniversary of the CIA-backed assassination of Patrice Lumumba–the Congo’s first democratically-elected leader following its independence from Belgium. Also this week, the school district of Tuscon, Arizona decided… Continue reading