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November 2013

November 05, 2013

BREAKING: Marriage Equality IS Coming to Illinois!

This just in from Illinois Unites For Marriage: The Illinois House just passed the freedom...

October 2013

October 31, 2013

Honorable Mention: Lutheran Heritage Chair Kit Kleinhans

Today is Reformation Day, when Lutherans mark a moment when the good Dr. Martin Luther...

October 22, 2013

Oprah, Atheism, & How Not To Be An Ally

Oprah loves teaching us about ourselves. This month, it’s a great example of exactly what...

October 18, 2013

Why Affordable Care Matters for Women

Given that the Affordable Care Act remains a political football more than three years after...

October 16, 2013

Teaching With Meaning: The LFP Family

I’m travelling to the University of Scranton today to attend a board meeting, administrators workshop,...

October 14, 2013

“Women Breaking Silence”

What follows here is part of a ritual for domestic violence awareness, one of several...

October 10, 2013

A ChildFull Life

Today is the third anniversary of Owen’s baptism. In the two previous years, I have...

October 09, 2013

“… and I Would Like to Listen”

On Saturday, October 5, 2013, two church bodies faced significant moments in the history of...

October 03, 2013

Apply Now: Faith & Reproductive Justice Institute

If 2012 taught us anything, it was that the conservative forces seeking to deny women...

September 2013

September 30, 2013

Pluralism, Marriage, & Religious Freedom

The following is an excerpt from a commentary I wrote for my local newspaper, the...

September 27, 2013

Transitioning in Christian Community: H. Adam Ackley & APU

The story of H. Adam Ackley has caught a significant amount of media attention in...

September 26, 2013

Are Mormons Christian? Who Gets to Decide?

Chris Henrichsen over at Approaching Justice kicked off a Patheos bloggers roundtable this week on...

September 20, 2013

Sexism & Churches: A Twitterview with Sarah Sentilles

I happened upon the book, A Church of Her Own, last spring on a colleague's...

September 18, 2013

Justice for Chelsea? Lutheran Theology and Trans*Activism

As the trial of Private Manning concluded this August, the convictions on more than 20...

September 15, 2013

Yes, NALT, but SSA, and WAY?

I appreciate and affirm the NALT Christians project, the idea of stating over and over...

September 12, 2013

Honorable Mention: The NALT Christians Project

If you haven’t heard of it yet, check out this video introduction to The NALT...

August 2013

August 28, 2013

“Challenge Our Labor to Set People Free”

Today is the fiftieth anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom....

August 26, 2013

Fall Back Into School ~ Your Reading List

Fall semester classes start this week, so I thought I’d share the list of books...

August 14, 2013

On Feminist Pioneers & White People Getting Out of the Way

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America made history today by electing the first woman to...

August 14, 2013

A Church Assembles

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is in the middle of its biennial (soon to...

August 12, 2013

At the Intersections: Response to Need

Many good people live and work at the intersections … of feminism and Christianity, of...

August 07, 2013

“Maybe God is an Angry Feminist”

Oh, I hope so. I am absolutely in love with this new piece at Sarah...

August 05, 2013

Learning and Unlearning with Stellarella

Passing on the faith to the next generation has to involve learning as well as...

August 02, 2013

“God Calls Us All to Join Her Labor”

I have been in two different conversations with leaders in the churches this summer in...

July 2013

July 31, 2013

Reza Aslan Is Not A Zealot, Jesus Was

You might have already seen Reza Aslan interviewed via any number of media outlets in...

July 25, 2013

Our Voices: “My Painful Visitations”

This summer, I’ll be sharing a series of short personal stories from the Our Voices,...

July 22, 2013

The Vocation of a Lutheran College

What does it mean to be a Lutheran college? What does it mean to teach,...

July 19, 2013

Honorable Mention: Feminist Conversations in Religion

In case you’re not aware of this amazing resource and opportunity, let me introduce you...

July 17, 2013

“They Think That God is A Tiny Little Conservative Being”

If you haven’t had a chance, do take the time to watch 16-year old Malala...

July 12, 2013

“We Showed Up” :: Millennials & Reproductive Justice

Consider the masses of younger women who showed up at the Texas statehouse before and...