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Alexandria:

  • The Soul That Felt Its Worth
  • Earth Gospel Meditation
  • Body Politics: From Female to Feminist Body
  • A Beast of Burden
  • Old Worlds, New Futures: A Review of Jessica Pegis’s The God Painter
  • Ecology and Inspiration
  • Resisting Colonial Patriarchy: Women & Indigenous Creation Stories
  • Resisting the Secular: Spirituality and Indigenous Thought
  • Thinking Ecologically
  • Gestational Hospitality: Review of Margaret D. Kamitsuka’s Abortion and the Christian Tradition

See all of Alexandria’s posts.

Allison:

  • Selfishness & Arrogance: Creating the Feminist Bogey Woman
  • Resilience for others
  • Myths, Doubts, and Reckonings: Somber Reflections on Canada Day
  • Renovating Tradition: Dorothee Soelle (Part Two)
  • “What About Rape?” Gender, Violence, and Policing
  • Renovating Tradition: Insights from Dorothee Soelle (Part One)
  • What is Now Uncovered / Don’t Waste an Apocalypse
  • Sallie McFague: Sparker of Theological Imagination
  • Why I Write for WIT: Room to Breathe
  • What Does Jon Snow Know? How to be a Privileged Ally

See all of Allison’s posts.

Alyssa:

  • Standing in the Pulpit on Christmas Eve
  • Why I Write for WIT: Exist / Resist
  • Reflecting on Native Plants on the Blue Flower Full Moon
  • “The Path I Walk, Christ Walks It”
  • Catholic Women Preach
  • Taking Seriously the Spirituality of the Child
  • Microaggressions: Olympic-Sized and Otherwise
  • On Floods and Beauty: A Gospel Reflection Two Weeks after the West Virginia Floods
  • “Go and Tell Them:” Mary Magdalene and Women Preaching

See all of Alyssa’s posts.

Amaryah:

  • Kim Burrell and the Power and Pleasure of Authority: On Sexuality and Transformative Justice in the Black Church
  • Some Thoughts on Weight Loss
  • Blackness and Value; Part 3: On Blackness as Debt
  • Blackness and Value; Part 2: On Whiteness as Credit
  • Blackness and Value; Part 1: The Economics of Criminalization
  • On Ferguson and Property
  • Dear White People and Black Liberal Aspirations
  • Whiteness and Inheritance: A Humble Proposal
  • Some Thoughts on Snowpiercer
  • A Reasonable Violence: Why Third Way is the Worst Way

See all of Amaryah’s posts.

Beth:

  • Retreat for Women in Theology/Divinity PhD Programs
  • Sheriff Joe’s Got to Go: Arizona’s Unfinished Election
  • The Last Laugh? Theologizing Humor and Joy With the Cardinal and Colbert
  • “Fagbug:” Beetle-Driving Grad Student Confronts Homophobia On the Road and On Film
  • Monseñor Romero and the Asceticism of Truth
  • “Sacred Topographies:” 2012 Fordham Graduate Theology Conference
  • Woman and A Lady at the Museum of Modern Art
  • Destroying Nature, Defying Gender? Benedict XVI Takes On Ecology and Anthropology
  • “The Bombs Bursting In Air”
  • Just Hoops: Thoughts on Gender and Basketball

See all of Beth’s posts.

Brandy:

  • For Shame! Part 3: A Shameful (Erotic?) Theology?
  • For Shame? Part 2 (of 3): Queer(-ing) Shame? (Or, Defining Shame, Queer Redux: The Affect & Its Effects)
  • Some Thoughts on the “Vanderbilt Rape Trial”
  • For Shame? Part 1 (of 3): An Introduction (On the Psychological & Popular Literature… and, on My Shame)
  • Trigger Warnings, Trauma, & a Politics of “Thick Life:” On Halberstam’s “You are Triggering Me,” and Povinelli’s Empire of Love
  • High Horses & the Starving Faithful: Thoughts on Sex, God, & Belonging
  • On Sarah Coakley and Belle Knox: Pornography, Piety, and People
  • Loneliness (and the Academic Life), Part 2: On Belonging (and Against Unity)
  • Dancing Under the Gallows: A PSA for “The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life”
  • Loneliness & the Academic Life: Part 1, the “Who’s” and “Whys”

See all of Brandy’s posts.

Bridget:

  • Hares, not Hedgehogs: The Vocation of the Theologian
  • Hope in the Storm-Tossed Church
  • Confirmation is not “Baptism of Believers” for Catholics
  • Virgin Mary, Mother of God, Become a Feminist
  • To Love Great Cities
  • On Speech Acts & Making Things Better
  • Stephen Colbert + Feminist Theology = Best Meme Ever
  • Hildegard of Bingen, Doctor of the Church
  • iSexism?
  • Dies Natalis of Hildegard of Bingen

See all of Bridget’s posts.

Candace:

  • Theological Effects of Christians Displaced in Franchise Evangelical Christian Spaces
  • How To Handle Divine & Political Barriers: A Womanist Perspective
  • Is there room for anger when God does things ‘on purpose’?

See all of Candace’s posts.

Caroline:

  • On John Ortberg and Menlo Church
  • Voting Will Not Save Us
  • A Brief Reflection on Easter Flowers
  • Jean Vanier and Cancelling Our Darlings
  • The Light I am Waiting For
  • Toward an Agnostic-Humanistic Theology of Pastoral Care
  • Why I Write For WIT: Release
  • Why I Don’t Care About Nadia Bolz-Weber’s New Book
  • On Being Retrained in Indulgence
  • The Religious Significance of Anorexia

See all of Caroline’s posts.

Carolyn:

  • Dearly Beloved, We Are Children of the Resurrection
  • The Stories We Have Been Told: Reflecting on Five Wives by Joan Thomas (HarperCollins, 2019)
  • The Parable of the Shrewd Manager; or, A Gospel Word for Those in Capitalism
  • The Conception of Souls?
  • Daughters of Eve: An Interview with Director Zanah Thirus
  • The Unfortunate Affair of Karl Barth
  • Review: When Did We See You Naked?
  • The God Who Sees Me: Childlessness and Annunciations
  • Academia’s Disease, and the Hope of Theologizing After Whiteness
  • It’s Our Place to Judge

See all of Carolyn’s posts.

Casey:

  • I Didn’t Have High Hopes
  • Restoration: Women, the Diaconate and My 3-year Prayer
  • How a Protestant Seminary Set This Catholic Woman Free

See all of Casey’s posts.

Courtney:

  • 2017: America’s Dark Night of the Soul
  • Queen Bey, Black Madonna, and the Feminine Divine
  • Hair Hermeneutics: Black Hair and Christianity
  • The Religion of America
  • On Reading Luke 6 as a Black Christian After Watching the Death of Terence Crutcher
  • Mothers of the Movement: On Black Motherhood and Mary
  • Beyoncé, LEMONADE and a Womanist Theology

See all of Courtney’s posts.

Elissa:

  • Some Guidance for Writing Conference Proposals (for AAR)
  • Pope Francis and Mother Angélique: A Feminist Historical Theology Issue
  • Journaling as a Means of Research
  • No Church Mothers: Part III, Theology vs. Spirituality
  • Women’s Voices: A Review of Sue Monk Kidd’s The Book of Longings
  • The “Big Bad” Conversion Narrative
  • Toward a Feminist Historical Theology: Part II, Feminist Biblical Interpretation
  • Toward a Feminist Historical Theology: Part I, Hamilton
  • Fratelli Tutti and the Importance of the Histor(ical Theolog)ian
  • A Working Mother’s Pandemic Spirituality

See all of Elissa’s posts.

Elizabeth:

  • On Coffee Shops and Crucifixions
  • On Objecting to ‘Hetero-Sex’: Any Augustinian Feminist Overlap?
  • On Gender, Authority, and Gloss: A Story from College
  • Rowan Williams, Teresa of Avila, and An Easter Spirituality
  • Teaching Note: On Confronting Violence Against Women in the Christian Tradition
  • The Film Her: Forget About A.I.–Are Women Ever Subjects?
  • A Feminist New Year’s Resolution: Lose Weight-Shaming
  • On Desire Lines: Sarah Coakley, Vulnerability, and What Turns Us On
  • For Shame
  • Do we care about mental illness?

See all of Elizabeth’s posts.

Hilary:

  • Kicking Everyday Sexism’s Butt: An Airport Encounter
  • #Metoo and Public Disclosures of Sexual Violence Perpetration: What’s a Listener to Do?
  • Let’s get strategic: White women in resistance to the Trump cultural-political machine
  • “Students these Days:” Theological Education and the Supposed Problem of Entitlement
  • Bread and Cup, Bodies and Abuse

See all of Hilary’s posts.

Jane:

  • “Now All Things Have Been Filled with Light”: Theological Reflections on Andy Warhol’s Icons
  • An Emptiness that Is Not Empty:
  • Defending Monica (again) 
  • A Coherent Life: Eros for the World and the Theological Vision of Etty Hillesum
  • Born From Beauty: The Tender Mercies of “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous”
  • “And Yet Where in Our History Books is the Tale?”
  • “Two Strikes”: Why I Write for “Women in Theology”
  • The Gospel According to Scruffy: Or, Contemplating the Name of Dog
  • The Work of Mourning
  • On Christian Marriage: Toward a Theology of Failure

See all of Jane’s posts.

Janice:

  • Elastic Hearts and Young Bodies: on children, art, and rape culture
  • #Sorrynotsorry: on sexual abuse in the church
  • 52 Tuesdays: Trans Identity and the M Word
  • The myth of Christian hospitality and theological dialogue: or, ‘it’s a trap, trust me’
  • Sex acts and gender performance: can we think theologically?
  • Facebook Theology
  • Resisting the Kingdom: women in the gym, theological optimism, and the liturgical deformation of inclusion.
  • On Not Reading Barth: my measly resistance
  • What’s Ours is Ours: asylum seekers, native peoples, and the nation state.
  • Foucault and the Fat Actress*

See all of Janice’s posts.

Jessica:

  • Caught off Guard by Grace
  • Jubilee
  • Gem-Turning & the Hide-and-Seek God
  • Sacred Memory: Remember, Remember
  • Why I Write for WIT: Making space.
  • This isn’t the end of the story: Lent + the 3-6 year-old child
  • Advent II: And the darkness has not overcome it.
  • Wandering on the Edges of Home
  • Today, I write.

See all of Jessica’s posts.

Julia:

  • Practice Resurrection, Eat Together
  • Remember that you are dust.
  • Preach: God Hears Hagar and Ishmael (Genesis 16:1-16 and 21:9-21)
  • An original WIT: Hilkert on Heaven
  • A Mother in Theology
  • God in the Storm
  • Coping with Emotionally Difficult Material
  • Stop talking like a girl
  • Sexual violence and the church: talking to teens
  • Halloween Costuming: Some Feminist Basics

See all of Julia’s posts.

Katie Grimes:

  • Yes, It’s Ok To Like Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Play Hamilton (even on the Fourth of July)
  • Catholic Teaching Changes: Slavery (Part II)
  • Catholic Teaching Changes: Slavery (Part I)
  • Catholic Teaching Changes: Marital Sex
  • Change Is A Catholic Tradition
  • Time to Change: Should the Catholic Church Ordain Women Deacons?
  • Moral Heroism and the “Man of His Time” Defense
  • Catholic Theology and the Cause of Prison Abolition
  • #MeToo and the Jesus Movement
  • Trauma at the Border: Is the Bond Between Criminalized Parent and Child Sacred as Well?

See all of Katie Grimes’s posts.

Katie Humphrey:

  • RIP to a pioneer
  • The Many Manifestations of Mary
  • Home
  • A Spirit of Change
  • Does it matter who we see and hear on the altar?
  • Silence.
  • The quiet voices of Empathy and Compassion speak to us.
  • Care for Our Common Home during Covid 19.
  • Motherhood: Connecting the human with the divine.

See all of Katie Humphrey’s posts.

Kristen:

  • How (Not) to Get a PhD in Theology/Religion
  • Existential Global Realities: a Review of Words for a Dying World
  • Online Conferencing and Opening Flights: should I stay or should I go now..?
  • Cruel Summer : Readings in Ecotheology
  • Returning to a New Place
  • Research Notes
  • Defying a Dichotomy : a review of Call and Response by Fran Pratt
  • Let the Fires Blaze
  • What Good is the AAR Annual Meeting?
  • Desperately Seeking an Other Self, or, Trouble with Dualisms

See all of Kristen’s posts.

Maria McDowell:

  • Silence or Justice: The Church and Politics
  • May Our Hope Not Die With You Metropolitan Kallistos Ware
  • Making Community with Music
  • Mary, Martha, and Feminism: Check your systems!
  • Open Eucharist: a Habitual Binding of God?
  • Conjure, Plan, Debate, Convince: Justice over the long-haul
  • There is no ‘acting alone’ in a society that will not regulate gun ownership
  • The Cost of Silence
  • Anointing Women
  • Leaving Egypt: A Sermon on Looking Back

See all of Maria McDowell’s posts.

Maria McGuire:

  • Why I Write for WIT: Contributing from My Means
  • Pope Francis’ Golden Opportunity: Welcoming Women back to the Ministry of Service
  • Divine Gazing: To Know and Be Known
  • Using the F Word in Theology
  • The God Who Sees Me

See all of Maria McGuire’s posts.

Mandy:

  • Embracing my failure
  • The Dismantling of Myths
  • What do we owe the weak? – Or just say “No” to death’s dominion
  • The darkness shall not overcome it.
  • Why I write for WIT: clarifying my call
  • How do we best honor (and listen to) the dead? A reflection on the witness of Óscar and Valeria Martínez
  • Sometimes in order to love people, you have to be against them
  • Eyes to See, Ears to Hear: Sexual Assault, Abortion, and Hidden Suffering
  • Advent Waiting in an Evil World
  • Our Precarious Lives

See all of Mandy’s posts.

Nichole:

  • She’s Everywhere: Reflections on Meeting Guadalupe in Mexico
  • Why I Am Not a Feminist

See all of Nichole’s posts.

Rebecca:

  • Here’s the Church, Here’s the Steeple, Go to the Gift Shop, and See All the People
  • Christianity and St. Catherine of Siena: It’s Complicated
  • All Girls, All the Time

See all of Rebecca’s posts.

Shelli:

  • Who sinned?
  • For the Empowerment of Nonbinary and Trans People
  • Responding to Anti-Trans Legislation
  • Lent in a Time of War: Mother Jesus and Loving Community
  • Epiphany: A Story of Intersecting Religious Traditions
  • A City on a Hill
  • Review: Transgressive Devotion
  • What is God? A Series (Part 3: God is Love)
  • What is God? A Series (Part 2: God as our Good Shepherd)
  • What is God? A Series (Part 1: Approaching the Question)

See all of Shelli’s posts.

Sonja:

See all of Sonja’s posts.

Women of WIT:

  • 7 Being the Number of Wholeness and Completeness
  • DEADLINE EXTENDED: Are You a Woman in Theology? WIT is Seeking New Contributors!
  • Are You a Woman in Theology? WIT is Seeking New Contributors!
  • An Historian’s Reaction to Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization
  • Mary, The Autonomous
  • Ontological Difference: A Poem
  • Reclaiming Our Tradition
  • Are You a Woman in Theology? Seeking Guest Posters
  • Sustaining Miracles: Blessing What is Already Here
  • A Perspective of Christianity on Civil Disobedience: A Study of Hong Kong’s Occupy Central and the Umbrella Movement

See all Women of WIT posts.

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Alexandria
Allison
Alyssa Pasternak Post
Candace Laughinghouse
Caroline Morris
Carolyn
Elissa
Jane Barter
Jessica Gapasin Dennis
Katie Grimes
Katie Humphrey
Kristen Daley-Mosier
Maria McDowell
Mandy Rodgers-Gates
Shelli M. Poe
Women of WIT

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Amaryah Shaye
Beth
Brandy Daniels
Bridget
Casey Stanton
Courtney Lee
Elizabeth
Hilary Jerome Scarsella
Janice
Julia
Maria McGuire
Nichole M. Flores
Rebecca Krier
Sonja

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