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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 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...

February 2017

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...

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...

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...

May 2016

May 02, 2016

#BlackLivesMatter in Barbershop’s Love Letter to Chicago

I spent five formative years in my mid-twenties living in Hyde Park on the South...

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 10, 2016

Queering Difference, Correcting Coakley

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

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...

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...

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...

August 2015

August 29, 2015

Honorable Mention: Equality Illinois

Today I’m speaking on the Faith and Equality Issues Panel at the Equality Institute, hosted...

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...

July 2015

July 24, 2015

Some Good News in Religious Higher Ed

Over at Religion News Service, Eliel Cruz highlights three Christian colleges who have recently taken...

July 16, 2015

With Christian Privilege, You Already Have Religious Freedom

Deny other people rights to (your concept of) the afterlife all you want. But you...

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...

July 06, 2015

Marriage Musings from SCOTUS to ‘Honey, I’m Good’

The last paragraph of Justice Anthony Kennedy’s majority opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges received a...

June 2015

June 29, 2015

“Blessing Every Love Relation”:: A Pride Month Hymn

As a conclusion to a remarkable Pride Month, I’m delighted to share “Praise the Source...

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...

May 2015

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...

April 2015

April 28, 2015

At the Intersections: The Sacred Feminine, Medieval Style

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

April 24, 2015

How Should People of Faith Respond to {Bruce} Jenner? (#CallMeCaitlyn UPDATE)

[For updated reflections on #CallMeCaitlyn, scroll to the end of this post.] As Bruce Jenner...

March 2015

March 31, 2015

When Religious Freedom Only Protects Heteropatriarchy

It’s not really religious freedom. Conservative politicians have been on a roll for the past...

March 26, 2015

Vocation at the Intersection of Self & World

Today I’m heading to St. Louis for the National Conference of the Network for Vocation...