Mary
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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
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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
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Reflections on Pregnancy
Being pregnant is hard. Continue reading
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Examining Our Consciences In Light of Structural Sin
This is my attempt to envision an examination of conscience that more explicitly deals with the intersection between interpersonal and structural-social sin. NOTE: The absence of certain “traditional” sins, like masturbation, for example, is not in itself a statement about… Continue reading
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Some Artistic Reflections on the Annunciation
As Elizabeth mentioned in her first post on Mariology, I find much Marian piety rather difficult to appreciate, for various reasons (feminist, christological, ecumenical, historical-critical). Despite that, I often find myself quite moved by artistic portrayals of the Annunciation, both… Continue reading
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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
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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