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December 2015

December 17, 2015

”Did God Have a Wife?”: Asherah, Heavenly Mother, & Mother Earth

In the theologically conservative Protestant Christianity of my childhood, the sacred was always imagined as...

August 2015

August 18, 2015

“The Peabody Sisters”

What stood out to me most from reading Megan Marshall's The Peabody Sisters (a finalist for the 2006...

August 11, 2015

Letting Go of Fear & Celebrating Differences: Insights from Intersectionality

This past Sunday was the 70th anniversary of the United States dropping an atomic bomb on...

December 2014

December 22, 2014

Winter Solstice Spirituality: “Learning to Walk in the Dark”

My favorite season is summer, but I aspire to love the winter. Winter and I are...

August 2014

August 28, 2014

Eve Was Framed, the Serpent Was Right!

On August 13, 1971, the cover of LIFE Magazine featured an image of two women...

June 2014

June 18, 2014

Margaret Fuller: The Stories We Tell Matter

The stories we tell matter. The stories that we choose to tell can be used...

June 16, 2014

“Feminist Masculinity and Father’s Day” #EachEveryWoman #AllMenCan

Three weeks ago, devastating news began to break about a mass shooting in Isla Vista,...

May 2014

May 09, 2014

Mother’s Day for All

Julia Ward Howe is most famous for writing the Battle Hymn of the Republic in...

April 2013

April 16, 2013

Pope Fail: Francis Throws the “Nuns on the Bus” Under the Bus

I celebrated many of Pope Francis' early acts of compassionate humility -- especially his subversion...

April 08, 2013

Did You Just Send That Woman To a Church To Get Help with an Abortion?

Today, in the year 2013, when we reflect on what it means to talk about...

October 2012

October 08, 2012

Do We Need a Moratorium on the Word “God”?

I have been trying to find a way of being religious that’s still possible (or...

September 2012

September 04, 2012

Jesus Getting Caught with His Compassion Down

Jesus is usually so mind-blowingly impressive that we can forget he did not emerge from...

August 2012

August 20, 2012

On Bullshit: Todd Akin Did Not “Misspeak”

Representative Todd Akin, a six-term member of Congress and the Republican Senate nominee from Missouri, said...

May 2012

May 18, 2012

“Your Daughters Shall Prophecy”: Fulfilling the Promise of Pentecost, Abolishing the Laity, and Ordaining Women

A Progressive Christian Lectionary Commentary for Pentecost Sunday, May 27, 2012 Many pastors think of...

February 2012

February 18, 2012

Paul: Misogynist or Mystic?

12 For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the...

November 2011

November 22, 2011

Progressive Christian Reflections on Advent

How should progressive Christians approach Advent in light of twenty-first century knowledge? The following are four meditations...

April 2011

April 11, 2011

France Caves to Islamophobia; Discourage Veiling, Don’t Discriminate

A headline in today's New York Times reads, "France Enforces Ban on Full-Face Veils in...