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January 2017

January 31, 2017

Hearing God on Hacksaw Ridge & in Airport Detention

In the movie Hacksaw Ridge, Desmond Doss is perched on the edge of the ridge...

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...

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 11, 2016

Writing About #BlackLivesMatter While White

By now, you know whether or not Alton Sterling and Philando Castile had criminal records....

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 13, 2016

An Interfaith Leader’s Twelve-Step Response to the Pulse Massacre

In an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education today, Eboo Patel says: “An interfaith...

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...

March 2016

March 03, 2016

Water, Water, Everywhere: On Death, Flint & “Formation”

Consider images of water flooding recent news and pop culture: Parents holding up baby bottles...

January 2016

January 12, 2016

Fighting Religious Prejudice with Conversation & Information

How often do you have conversations with someone of a different faith than your own?...

December 2015

December 16, 2015

Must Interfaith Solidarity Cost a Woman Her Job?

Apparently, at Wheaton College, a tenured political science professor who decides to wear hijab as...

December 02, 2015

White Conservative Evangelical Heteropatriarchal Terrorism in a Gun Culture Hating Planned Parenthood

I’ve been too unspeakably angry about the terrorist attack on Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs...

November 2015

November 16, 2015

No Religious Test for Compassion

“And I think our focus ought to be on the Christians who have no place...

October 2015

October 27, 2015

If Trump Was My Student: So You Just Don’t Know About Seventh-day Adventist?

Last Saturday, Donald Trump talked about his and Ben Carson’s religions at a rally in...

October 19, 2015

Of Course There’s a Religious Test for Office

It’s called the voter. And all of the beliefs, values, ignorance, convictions, stereotypes, and knowledge...

October 06, 2015

Guns, Masculinity, a Culture of Life, & Educators on the Front Line

One day about two years ago I walked into the building where I teach two...

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 17, 2015

Sorry, Carly: Planned Parenthood Edition

Sorry, Carly. You may have won the GOP primary debate last night, by speaking with...

September 02, 2015

For Women Who Aren’t Contrite

When I first heard about Pope Francis' offer of forgiveness for women who had had abortions,...

August 2015

August 27, 2015

Why #BlackLivesMatter Has to Exist

I wrote the following piece which was first published in the Jacksonville Journal-Courier, my local...

August 03, 2015

Why We Need to Teach Interfaith Understanding

Amidst conservative Christian fervor over religious freedom, it’s important to remember what real threats to...

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 24, 2015

Some Good News in Religious Higher Ed

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

June 2015

June 24, 2015

#Charleston :: Round-Up of Lutheran Voices & Resources

On June 18, 2015, ELCA Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton wrote: "It has been a long...

June 03, 2015

Jesus is Not a Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card: Christian Privilege & the Duggars

In her interview with Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, Megyn Kelly encouraged the idea that...

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...

January 2015

January 21, 2015

Faith Leaders Issue Statement Opposing 20-Week Abortion Ban Bill

I have written here before about my involvement in the Faith and Reproductive Justice Leadership...

January 19, 2015

Nonconformity, Anger, Hope: A Genealogy of Words for MLK Day 2015

This morning, I participated in a Speak-In on campus during which faculty, staff, and students...

December 2014

December 04, 2014

Casting Off White Invisibility

In a piece for Salon last week, Brittney Cooper wrote about her ongoing struggle with...