experience
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Experience as a Moral Source: A Two-Part Review of My Body, Their Baby: A Progressive Christian Vision for Surrogacy
Part 1: Summary & Analysis Grace Y. Kao’s My Body, Their Baby: A Progressive Christian Vision for Surrogacy is a wonderful book. Solidly researched and well-written, Kao provides a much needed resource on the practice and ethics of surrogacy. Anchoring… Continue reading
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A Catholic Grandmother Reflects on Pope Francis, Kim Davis, and the Power of Encounter
WIT is delighted to bring you the following guest post from Rosa Manriquez, IHM. We are particularly grateful for her unique perspective and powerful witness. Rosa is a mother and grandmother, a member of the Immaculate Heart Community, a Roman Catholic… Continue reading
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Women Speak About Natural Family Planning: Tell Us Your Stories
As some of you probably remember, about a year ago, we at WIT published a post entitled “Women Speak About Natural Family Planning.” When I wrote the post, I was expecting it to be controversial and indeed it remains among… Continue reading
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Church Teaching and Violence Against LGBT Persons II
A recent article in Mother Jones offers a snapshot of what it’s like to be lesbian or gay in Uganda–arguably the worst place on earth to be lesbian or gay. Perhaps not coincidentally, Catholics comprise 41% of the Ugandan population… Continue reading
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Is Sexual Complementarity An Argument Against Same-Sex Relationships?
In addition to being used as an argument against artificial birth control and women’s ordination, sexual complementarity is also put forth as an argument against the goodness of same-sex relationships. According to this thinking, the procreative compatibility of male and… Continue reading
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Women Speak About Natural Family Planning
If we listen to the stories of all women, not just those for whom natural family planning works in the way that the magisterium says that it does, we will see that natural family planning is not always good. In… Continue reading
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This is My Body: On Violence and Vulnerability in Women’s Experience
At WIT we are conscious that our theological reflection is shaped by our experiences–as humans, as Christians, as women. Our identities as women have been shaped by violence. Becoming a woman in our society inevitably entails coming to an acute… Continue reading
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Feminism Without White Privilege?
Theology reflects upon and is a reflection of the lived experience of a particular human community; in the case of feminist theology, this community is that of women living in a world marred by patriarchy and sexism. In this way,… Continue reading