sexuality
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Sacred Maps and New Paths: Reimagining Scripture
When I was younger, my mom loved taking us on summer road trips. Once we picked a destination, we’d log into the computer, and enter our starting point and endpoint into MapQuest (there’s a throwback!). Then we’d print out a… 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
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Conjugal What Exactly?
This is the question that matters: is sexual congress generative of more than simply tiny humans? Avoiding this question simply gets the conversation nowhere at all. Traditionalists are convinced that the only good of sex is its procreative possibility (a… Continue reading
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Bread and Cup, Bodies and Abuse
I spend a good bit of time listening to adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse reflect on ways that the worship and theology of their faith communities impacted their experience of abuse, its traumatic consequences, and their subsequent ability to… Continue reading
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Sex And Social Justice At the Synod on the Family
The Synod of Bishops on the Family has begun. Pope Francis convened this synod nearly a year ago in order to address “concerns which were unheard of until a few years ago,” including but not limited to phenomena like “the… Continue reading
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On Žižek and Identity Politics
In a recent Facebook discussion I got drawn into regarding Zizek and identity politics, I started by arguing for an understanding of identity politics that is not synonymous with the politics of representation and recognition that desire more POC or… Continue reading
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On the Rage of Women
“Rage — Goddess, sing the rage of undergraduate women (and men)” That’s how that epic poem began, right? I’ve been thinking about that riff on the real opening line tonight as I return to blogging from a 6-month hiatus. You’ll… 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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Mystery Theology Theater 3000: John Milbank
“Once, there was no sex. I don’t mean before 1963, but before 1633, in which year John Donne, amongst others, first used the word “sex” in our sense in his poem “The Ecstasie.” Interestingly enough though, unlike certain slightly older,… Continue reading