love
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Love has Come for You
What a wonderful image the lectionary text gives us for the fourth Sunday in Advent. Two women, cousins, greeting each other belly to belly, feeling the movement of their babies within their own bodies: In those days Mary set out… Continue reading
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Jesus Was Not A Bully; The Ambo Is Not A Bully Pulpit
Today at the eleven o’clock mass at St. Mary’s church in Marion, Ohio, the pastor left the altar before giving his homily and approached a family with several small children under the age of four who were sitting near the… Continue reading
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The Failure To Bother To Love: On Ignorance and Ableism
A few years ago, I wrote an article entitled, “Privilege as Blindness: Why North American Christians Need Haiti” for the online theology journal, The Other Journal. In it, I argued that social privilege impairs the privileged person’s ability to see… Continue reading
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Guest Post: On Dean Brackley, War, and the Courage for Downward Mobility
In the interest of furthering the conversation among Women In Theology, Women In Ministry, and Women In the Pews (see Bridget’s earlier post on this), I invited my friend Sofia Barbato, M.Div, to share a personal reflection on Dean Brackley, S.J. and… Continue reading
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The Woman I Loved for Four Years
And now for something a bit different. We Women of WIT would like to share the following short reflection written by a friend of the blog for a performance of monologues written by LGBT folks. It represents a different manner of… 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