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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,...

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...

January 2017

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...

August 2016

August 01, 2016

All About Hijab: Gender, Race, Religion & Ghazala Khan

It started with a dignified woman standing on stage, on television, stoically bearing witness to...

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 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...

March 2016

March 10, 2016

Queering Difference, Correcting Coakley

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

December 2015

December 30, 2015

November 2015

November 20, 2015

Engaging & Navigating #AARSBL15

Today I’m in Atlanta for the American Academy of Religion annual meeting. When I was...

October 2015

October 26, 2015

Beyond Pinkwashing: 8 Things to Actually Do About Cancer

Pinktober is almost over, which means that Movember is going to be upon us soon...

October 01, 2015

My Review of “Mormon Feminism”

The new book, Mormon Feminism: Essential Writings, edited by Joanna Brooks, Rachel Hunt Steenblik, and...

September 2015

September 24, 2015

Gender Equality & the #GlobalGoals as a #PrayerforEveryone

This week sees the launch of the Global Goals for Sustainable Development, a series of...

September 07, 2015

Unapologetically Madonna: Sex & Religion Through the Decades

In the category of News of the Obvious, Madonna declared that her Rebel Heart tour,...

September 01, 2015

Let’s Do Justice

We have a new voice joining the work of writing and moving toward justice at Patheos....

August 2015

August 25, 2015

Words for Justice, Songs for Worship

My friend and colleague Rev. Jann Aldredge-Clanton has just published a new book titled Earth...

August 06, 2015

4 Women & a Train Station: Reflection on an Interfaith Moment

Four women outside the entrance to Union Station, lingering in the cool breeze on a...

July 2015

July 27, 2015

Planned Parenthood Would Serve Mary

After dismissing the edited videos that pretend to catch Planned Parenthood staffers in a compromising...

July 09, 2015

Who Are You Reading? Paying Attention to Race & Gender

To some fanfare, Mark Zuckerberg announced in January that in 2015 he was going to...

June 2015

June 19, 2015

“Holy Impatience” : LGBT Pride Month Litany

The Women’s Alliance for Theology, Ethics, and Ritual (WATER) regularly publishes rituals written by Diann...

June 15, 2015

On Tim Hunt, the Doktorvater & #distractinglysexy Women

Nobel prize winning biochemist Tim Hunt recently made headlines with his comments at the World Conference of Science...

June 08, 2015

The Printing Press is Dead. So Buy My Luther Book on Kindle!

I’ve written here before about events leading up to Lutherans’ commemoration of the 500th anniversary...

May 2015

May 27, 2015

Bridging Evangelical Christianity & Feminism with #Femmevangelical

The latest dispatch from a woman emerging out from under evangelical Christianity is now available....

May 13, 2015

Summer Reading List from a Lutheran Roundtable

I recently attended a meeting of the Theological Roundtable of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in...