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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...

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...

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,...

January 2016

January 30, 2016

At the Intersections: The Public Body of Christ

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

January 12, 2016

Fighting Religious Prejudice with Conversation & Information

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

January 04, 2016

Defending the Value of Muslim Lives, No Matter Where You Live

I wrote this piece which first appeared in the December 18, 2015, issue of the...

November 2015

November 05, 2015

Racial Justice & a Lutheran Roundtable

Today I’m heading to Chicago for a meeting of the Theological Roundtable of the Evangelical...

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...

May 2015

May 18, 2015

Freedom & Renewal: Lutherans at 500

In case you aren’t hanging around enough Lutherans and Lutheran institutions, I thought I’d let...

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...

November 2014

November 21, 2014

“To Welcome The Stranger”

The Conference of Bishops of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America released the following statement about...

August 2014

August 18, 2014

Voices on Ferguson

In some crisis moments, some of us do well to listen, learn, and read as...

July 2014

July 02, 2014

Lutheran Theology 101

A few weeks ago, I was asked by blogger Tylor Standley to answer a few...

May 2014

May 12, 2014

Your Summer (Feminist) (Theological) Reading List

I received an email query this weekend that read, in part: I’m looking for some...

March 2014

March 13, 2014

Women, Race, & Ministry: Streams Run Uphill

“I wonder if people in the church have any idea how much pain we inflict...

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...

October 2013

October 07, 2013

It’s My Birthday! … & Other Awareness Events

October seems to be full of things of which you should be aware, only one...

August 2013

August 14, 2013

On Feminist Pioneers & White People Getting Out of the Way

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America made history today by electing the first woman to...

August 14, 2013

A Church Assembles

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is in the middle of its biennial (soon to...

July 2013

July 25, 2013

Our Voices: “My Painful Visitations”

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

July 22, 2013

The Vocation of a Lutheran College

What does it mean to be a Lutheran college? What does it mean to teach,...

July 03, 2013

Our Voices: “Who Says?”

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

June 2013

June 25, 2013

We’ve Come A Long Way, Baby?

Rev. Gene Robinson, groundbreaking retired Episcopal Bishop of New Hampshire, writes this month over at...

June 21, 2013

Our Voices: “Speaking ‘He'”

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

June 10, 2013

Our Voices: “Little Lady”

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

June 01, 2013

Lutheran Pride

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

May 2013

May 02, 2013

Open Letter to a Bishop

“If you could have me read one article, what would it be? ... Basically, what...

February 2013

February 11, 2013

Interfaithing Lutherans

The headlines refer to Rev. Rob Morris as a Lutheran pastor reprimanded by his denomination...

January 2013

January 24, 2013

Guns & Religion

During the 2008 election, Barack Obama took a lot of criticism for comments he made...