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Debunking Easter: The Women at the Cross
‘Crucifixion’ (1495) by Giovanni Donato da Montorfano, photographed by me at The Last Supper Museum in Milan, Italy. Easter has been a major Christian holiday, celebrated by billions for millennia. How we tell and are told the Easter story impacts… Continue reading
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Forgive as we have been Forgiven
This is a sermon given at St David’s Uniting Church, Newtwon, Victoria, Australia, on the Second Sunday in Advent, 2024. Continue reading
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I Remember, I Believe
Friends, the beginning of repentance is facing the truth of who we are, so that we know exactly what it is we need to turn away from. Our hope is not in a universe which arcs towards justice by itself,… Continue reading
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Haunted by Hope
The Regular Contributors to WIT are participating in a round table series, titled “Haunted.” This series will appear every (or every other) week throughout the Fall 2024 semester. Each current contributor to the blog will spend some time reflecting on… Continue reading
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Beautiful. Crissy.
Do not conform yourselves to the standards of this world, but let God transform you inwardly by a complete change of your mind. Then you will be able to know the will of God—what is good and is pleasing to… Continue reading
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Selfishness & Arrogance: Creating the Feminist Bogey Woman
As feminist writers and activists advocated for abortion access, or announced they were eschewing marriage and motherhood, these choices could only be seen as evidence of their selfishness by these critical commentators. Continue reading
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Responding to Anti-Trans Legislation
This post was originally published as “My Trans Stepson is Not Broken. He is Wonderfully Made,” by the Mississippi Free Press, May 16, 2022. Over the past few months, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton have called gender-affirming… Continue reading
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An Emptiness that Is Not Empty:
Get Back, Yoko Ono, and the Art of Performance In 1964, two years before she met John Lennon, Yoko Ono exhibited Cut Piece, one of the earliest works of feminist performance art. For Cut Piece, Ono wore a suit and knelt onstage… Continue reading
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A Coherent Life: Eros for the World and the Theological Vision of Etty Hillesum
Woodhouse, Patrick. Etty Hillesum: A Life Transformed. London: Bloomsbury, 2009. Hillesum, Etty. Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941 -1943. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002. In his theological rendering of Etty Hillesum’s life, Etty Hillesum: A Life Transformed, the Rev.… Continue reading
