women’s health

  • What Child is This?

    I have heard it said that motherhood is a blessing. And while every child is a miracle, some arrive after longer periods of anxiety and uncertainty. We often don’t hear about struggles with infertility until peering into the soft face… Continue reading

    What Child is This?

  • Some Thoughts on Weight Loss

    Over the past 8 months, I’ve been on a slow but steady weight loss plan and, in the New Year, wrote those goals down for the sake of reflecting on them externally. While I don’t exactly want to share what… Continue reading

  • Teaching Note: On Confronting Violence Against Women in the Christian Tradition

    When I teach theology to undergraduates, I make sure to spend some time on Augustine, typically his Confessions. I don’t think this is a necessary practice for all theology instructors, but I personally find Augustine to be a useful entry… Continue reading

  • A Feminist New Year’s Resolution: Lose Weight-Shaming

    **POTENTIAL TRIGGER WARNING IF YOU STRUGGLE WITH NEGATIVE BODY IMAGE AND BODY SHAME** We’ve ushered in a new year. I’m sure you’ve seen some articles, commercials, and news segments emphasizing good practices for abiding by new year’s resolutions, especially around… Continue reading

  • Women Speak About Natural Family Planning: GS’s Story

    This is the fifth in a series of posts featuring some women’s experience with natural family planning.  The previous four can be read here, here, here, and here.  For the post that originally inspired this project, click here.  To read… Continue reading

  • Women Speak About Natural Family Planning: Tell Us Your Stories

    As some of you probably remember, about a year ago, we at WIT published a post entitled “Women Speak About Natural Family Planning.”  When I wrote the post, I was expecting it to be controversial and indeed it remains among… Continue reading

  • Obama, Birth Control, and the Body of Christ: Thoughts on the HHS Ruling

    As many of you know, a few weeks ago, President Obama mandated that Catholic hospitals would have to begin providing birth control inclusive health care coverage for their employees. Opponents of this decision claim that, in making the Catholic church… Continue reading

  • Racial Inequality and Health

    Thanks to Meghan Clark of the blog Catholic Moral Theology (you can check out her latest post here) for introducing me to a very important documentary series, entitled Unnatural Causes, which chronicles the interconnection between racism/classism and health disparities. Thankfully for… Continue reading

  • Breast Cancer and Structural Racism

    As Dr. David Ansell of Rush University Medical Center in Chicago explains, black women are significantly more likely than white women to die from breast cancer.  The gap is so dramatic that in Chicago, every year, “3,200 black people die… Continue reading