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December 2013

December 03, 2013

Racism, Sexism, & The Holiday Classics

I just ruined “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” for my husband this year. He’s endlessly irritated...

November 2013

November 21, 2013

Surviving the Academic Industrial Complex

Today I’m on my way to Baltimore for the Annual Meeting of the American Academy...

September 2013

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 23, 2013

Race, Class, & J.K. Rowling

I finally got a chance to read The Casual Vacancy, J.K. Rowling’s first published non-Harry...

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 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 09, 2013

Honorable Mention: Southern Comfort

I’m a little delayed in my discovery of this film, but after a friend referred...

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 29, 2013

Who Are The Women?

In the middle of a really good piece titled “The Reproductive Injustice and the ‘War...

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...

July 08, 2013

Who’s Next to Me?

I was annoyed when I found out that some people think Emeli Sande's song "Next...

July 03, 2013

Our Voices: “Who Says?”

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

July 01, 2013

“You Call Us, Christ-Sophia”

Recently, I shared a story about the power of images and language for God in...

June 2013

June 26, 2013

Not Separate, Not Unequal: Notes on Two SCOTUS Rulings

I don’t spend a lot of time reading decisions rendered by the Supreme Court of...

June 23, 2013

God, Gays, & the Lutheran Church Basement

Did you notice the location of the meeting between Alan Chambers, now-apologetic director of the...

June 21, 2013

Our Voices: “Speaking ‘He'”

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

June 19, 2013

Leaning In Since 1960

Not me, that is. I was more than a decade away from being born when...

June 14, 2013

Papa’s Day 2013

Check out the great series of e-cards for Papa’s Day 2013 from Strong Families. Some of...

June 10, 2013

Our Voices: “Little Lady”

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

June 05, 2013

‘She and He Together Dancing’

Check out this lovely collaborative effort from Rev. Jann Aldredge-Clanton and Larry E. Schultz of...

June 01, 2013

Lutheran Pride

June is LGBT Pride Month and so it’s a particularly good time to celebrate the...

May 2013

May 28, 2013

Honorable Mention: spiritchatter

If you haven’t found it yet, head on over to a new blog here on...

May 10, 2013

Mama’s Day & “The Balance of Justice”

The Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations describes the Mama’s Day movement and it’s connection to...

April 2013

April 30, 2013

Macklemore’s Theology of “Same Love”

Of course, by the time I got around to watching Macklemore’s Same Love video at...

April 23, 2013

“Why Guys Throw Bombs”

In an interview this week with National Public Radio, Mohamed Elibiary described the kind of...