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July 2017

July 11, 2017

What I Won’t Write About Mary Daly for the Encyclopedia

I’m writing an article on Mary Daly for the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Religion,...

June 2017

June 15, 2017

We Need To Dance at Each Other’s Weddings

I had to send regrets to two invitations to local interfaith iftars in the past...

June 07, 2017

Freedom & the Racialized Body: Resonances with Luther at 500

The following is from part of what I presented at the recent conference on Embodied...

May 2017

May 15, 2017

Active in Love: The ELCA on Faith, Sexism, & Justice

As someone who thinks, writes, and teaches about gender justice and religion, I am deeply...

March 2017

March 17, 2017

Feminist, Interfaith, Public: My Luther Year

Five hundred years ago, an Augustinian monk drafted a disputation on indulgences wherein he detailed...

March 02, 2017

A Community Re-Imagining Faithful Justice

In 1993, I had just finished college and was starting graduate school in theology when...

February 2017

February 28, 2017

Does Being White Trump Being Christian?

I wrote the following piece which was first published in the Springfield State Journal-Register on...

February 16, 2017

No Religious Exemption for Abuse

Late last summer, a group of Illinois pastors sued the state for their right to engage in...

January 2017

January 31, 2017

Hearing God on Hacksaw Ridge & in Airport Detention

In the movie Hacksaw Ridge, Desmond Doss is perched on the edge of the ridge...

January 26, 2017

From Election to Marching: Calling a Thing What It Is, or We Are Not the Crazy Ones

“A theologian of glory calls evil good and good evil. A theologian of the cross...

July 2016

July 28, 2016

The Grace of Being Freed From Judging My Neighbor

Earlier this week, I had an op-ed about religious freedom published in the local newspaper,...

July 01, 2016

#JesseWilliamsSyllabus

I was going to write about the liberation theology of Jesse Williams. I immediately zoned...

June 2016

June 27, 2016

SCOTUS Ruling on Care & Compassion for All Women

A few months ago, I got an email from a reader who said she grew...

June 20, 2016

Trump. Women Know “That Guy”

His response to a woman’s charge that his buddy assaulted her begins and ends with...

June 13, 2016

An Interfaith Leader’s Twelve-Step Response to the Pulse Massacre

In an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education today, Eboo Patel says: “An interfaith...

June 09, 2016

Hello, Christians Who Still Don’t Get Feminism

Recently, I sat down with Josh deKeijzer at HelloChristian.com for an interview about feminism and...

May 2016

May 17, 2016

16 Questions About Feminism & Christianity Answered

Though I wrote the book about eight years ago, I find myself still and once...

April 2016

April 21, 2016

Prince Was My Third Tween Love (the naughty one)

After memorizing every word of every song on my Rick Springfield cassette tape of Living in...

April 04, 2016

Gender Theory & Religion, Brought to You by E!

How many viewers of reality shows on the E! Channel have studied gender theory? Thought...

March 2016

March 17, 2016

Finding Common Humanity with an Outlaw Christian

“Do you ever feel mad at God? Filled with doubt and questions?” So begins this...

March 10, 2016

Queering Difference, Correcting Coakley

The following is an excerpt of my discussion of Linn Marie Tonstad’s new book, God...

March 03, 2016

Water, Water, Everywhere: On Death, Flint & “Formation”

Consider images of water flooding recent news and pop culture: Parents holding up baby bottles...

February 2016

February 19, 2016

Making Religious Homophobia Illegitimate

I have a dream that someday, religious homophobia will be as illegitimate as flat-earth cosmology...

February 05, 2016

Everything Wrong With Christianity on One Church Sign

I saw it recently on the sign of a church on the outskirts of a...

January 2016

January 30, 2016

At the Intersections: The Public Body of Christ

Many good people live and work at the intersections and I occasionally invite someone to tell a...

January 12, 2016

Fighting Religious Prejudice with Conversation & Information

How often do you have conversations with someone of a different faith than your own?...

January 08, 2016

A Big Magic Believer

Some people would say that because I’m a theologian I already embrace magical thinking (i.e.,...

January 04, 2016

Defending the Value of Muslim Lives, No Matter Where You Live

I wrote this piece which first appeared in the December 18, 2015, issue of the...

December 2015

December 30, 2015