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January 2013

January 17, 2013

Imagining a Different Inaugural Benediction

You may or may not have been following the controversy around President Obama’s first choice...

January 16, 2013

Progress, Faith & Reproductive Justice as Roe Turns 40

For the past year I have been privileged to be part of the Faith and...

January 11, 2013

Marriage Equality in the Nation’s Cathedral

As noted this week on the website for the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation,...

January 07, 2013

A Year of Wins: Faith & Reproductive Justice 2012

In so many ways, 2012 was a year of setbacks for women’s reproductive health. Katie...

January 05, 2013

Honorable Mention: Ordain a Lady!

It does NOT get much better than this: From the Women's Ordination Conference, working for...

January 03, 2013

I Am Not A Hostage

Joumana Haddad wrote a provocative piece for NOW News last week titled “Islamic Feminism: Stockholm...

January 02, 2013

God Everywhere, God Nowhere?

I finally got around to watching the two-part segment about faith and the Newtown school...

January 01, 2013

December 2012

December 28, 2012

At the Intersections: Motherhood? Ministry?

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

December 19, 2012

‘Merica: “The Prayer-Heavy Dinner Party”

One of the most viewed posts I’ve written yet at Patheos was published back in...

December 18, 2012

“God Bless the Revolution”

I first heard of Beverly Wildung Harrison when I was a graduate student in theology...

December 14, 2012

Transformative Lutheran Theologies

My friend and colleague Dr. Jacqueline Bussie tells the following story in her review of...

December 13, 2012

Political Bishops

Earlier this week I wrote about and shared the video of the Bishop of the...

December 12, 2012

The Most Interesting Chapter in the Bible

Matthew 1:1-17. Yes, it’s a genealogy. Yes, these are the parts of the biblical text...

December 11, 2012

Honorable Mention: Bishop Gene & Hope

The Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire, Gene Robinson, was on The Daily...

December 10, 2012

Getting Theological: Sin

I’m getting back to my series of posts in which I “Get Theological” with the...

December 07, 2012

Meet the NotReligions: Christianity, Islam, and …?

So, apparently, we’ve been doing it all wrong. Christianity isn’t a religion! It’s a philosophy. ...

December 06, 2012

Theology Matters: Sarah Coakley on Women Bishops

You may have heard by now that The Church of England recently voted down a...

December 05, 2012

Why Incarnation?

“The Lutheran maxim that the finite bears the infinite (finitum capax infiniti) is an incarnational...

December 04, 2012

November 2012

November 30, 2012

Support the Goddess Mural

I’ve had the privilege of worshipping and speaking at herchurch in San Francisco a couple...

November 28, 2012

Seriously, Where’s Jesus?

A friend and local business owner posted this picture with a half-furious comment on Facebook...

November 26, 2012

Can a Story Make You Believe in God?

So, can a story make you believe in God? Note: In this post, I take...

November 22, 2012

Does Gratitude Require God?

In his book Living Buddha, Living Christ, Thich Nhat Hanh relates an episode in a...

November 21, 2012

Transgender Awareness Week 2012

Last week, at the annual meeting of Lutheran Women in Theological and Religious Studies at...

November 19, 2012

Notes from an AAR

The American Academy of Religion and Society of Biblical Literature continue their annual meetings today...

November 14, 2012

“For I Am With You”

What if the fundamental problem that we need to work to overcome, that embedded flaw...

November 12, 2012

Pussy Riot = Feminism + Religion + Russia

I’ve been wanting to read more about the content of Pussy Riot’s protest at the...

November 08, 2012

Now What? Work to be Done

I'm happy to share two responses to the inevitable days-after-the-election question: Now What? The first is...

November 07, 2012

Get Your Faitheist Now!

A few weeks ago I wrote a longer review of Chris Stedman’s captivating new book,...