Mariology

  • Celebrating Mary this Christmas

    When I encounter a nativity scene on someone’s front lawn, in a church, or on a Christmas card, I am often drawn to Mary. We know so little about her, and yet she has been used in so many ways.… Continue reading

    Celebrating Mary this Christmas

  • Marian Dogmas: A Protestant Re-Construction

    WIT again welcomes guest poster Sarah Elizabeth Smith. Sarah’s bio can be found at the top of her first post with us here. I lead monthly pub theology meetings for my church in Oklahoma City.  We are an Episcopal community… Continue reading

    Marian Dogmas: A Protestant Re-Construction

  • Can Paul Be Wrong? Wrestling With the Feast of the Holy Family

    Yesterday, December 29th, Catholic parishes all over the world celebrated the Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.  To mark this feast, lectors read the following Scriptural passages: Sirach 3:2-6, 12-14; Col 3: 12-21; Matthew 2:13-15, 19-23.… Continue reading

    Can Paul Be Wrong? Wrestling With the Feast of the Holy Family

  • Men Pray the Rosary Too: Against a “Theology of Women”

    Last month, on the way back from his spectacularly successful trip to Brazil, Pope Francis offered some off the cuff comments that sent the Catholic blogosphere buzzing. While re-affirming the church’s longstanding prohibition on the ordination of women, Pope Francis… Continue reading

  • Virgin Mary, Mother of God, Become a Feminist

    (OK. I’m going to warn you, this post is long. If you’re strapped for time, my suggestion is to read the text of “Punk Prayer,” and then skip down to “First,“. Thanks in advance for your patience.) By now, I’m… Continue reading

  • Karl Rahner on the Assumption of Mary

    “If God’s grace is doing in us what it did in her, than we too are blessed by grace, and beloved.” Continue reading

  • Mary! (2)

    More: I would like to clarify that when I echo Johnson in claiming that we need to allow Mary to step down from the deity pedestal we’ve so intricately constructed for her, I’m not saying she’s not preeminently important. In… Continue reading

  • Mary! (1)

    So I’ve finally worked my way through approximately 1,000 pages of reading about Mary (why, why, did I feel that doing a PhD was a good thing?), and I’ve got some knowledge to drop, if you are interested.* [*This post… Continue reading

  • Mary?

    I am going to sound extremely Roman Catholic right now.  So even though, when I think about myself as a theologian-in-training, I probably conceive of myself more as negotiating the Christianity-world axis theologically, I suppose there are some questions that… Continue reading