Women’s Experience
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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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Women’s Voices, Part II: A Review of Kaethe Schwehn’s The Gospel of Salome
What Schwehn has done in this book is to drastically reimagine Jesus’ story and insert Salome into it for his whole childhood, up until the start of his public ministry. Needless to say, in what I am going to write,… Continue reading
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The Witness of Mary
Every year, devout Christians embark on a theological journey, delving into the story of Jesus’ birth. While the liturgical season of Advent emphasizes the hope, joy, love, and peace offered by Christ’s awaited birth, less attention is given to the… Continue reading
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Women’s Voices: A Review of Sue Monk Kidd’s The Book of Longings
Toward the end of 2021 I participated in a virtual book club through my alma mater, Georgetown University, in which we read Sue Monk Kidd’s The Book of Longings (Penguin Books, 2020). I really enjoyed this book partly because of… Continue reading
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Ontological Difference: A Poem
WIT welcomes Madeline Jarrett as a guest poster with her poem “Ontological Difference.” Continue reading
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A Working Mother’s Pandemic Spirituality
There have been a multitude of articles that talk about the mental health issues that are facing working mothers during the pandemic and it seems that this lack of solitude as a space to develop one’s spiritual life is part… Continue reading
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Catholic Teaching Changes: Women in the Workplace
WIT welcomes the following guest post from Kate Ward. Kate is Assistant Professor of Theological Ethics at Marquette University. She researches and teaches economic ethics, virtue ethics and ethical method, and is completing a monograph exploring the impact of wealth,… Continue reading
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Why I Write for WIT: Room to Breathe
I first came across WIT in 2010 at the recommendation of a professor during my MTS. The site caught my attention right away. It was in the earlier days of my academic theological study and the idea that we were… Continue reading
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Why I Write for WIT: The Gender Disparity of Historical Theology
It is this space for women to develop, discuss, and share their ideas that I find so important in WIT. Continue reading