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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 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 20, 2016

Trump. Women Know “That Guy”

His response to a woman’s charge that his buddy assaulted her begins and ends with...

December 2015

December 30, 2015

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...

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...

October 2014

October 23, 2014

Be Afraid

I’ve never understood the appeal of haunted houses or roller coasters or scary movies. I...

August 2014

August 18, 2014

Voices on Ferguson

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

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...

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 27, 2013

Truth, Generosity, & Gratitude

In a longer piece at Feminism and Religion last year, Carol Christ shared this story...

September 2013

September 25, 2013

Subservient or Subversive, The Butler Works in a Man’s World

I resisted seeing The Butler. After the mess that was The Help, here came yet...

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...

August 2013

August 19, 2013

At the Intersection of Fruitvale & Clay

The following is an excerpt of a piece I wrote that was published earlier this...

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 07, 2013

“Maybe God is an Angry Feminist”

Oh, I hope so. I am absolutely in love with this new piece at Sarah...

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 15, 2013

I Am Not Trayvon Martin

In 1903 they were true. In 2013 they remain true. The words of W.E.B. DuBois...

June 2013

June 10, 2013

Our Voices: “Little Lady”

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

May 2013

May 24, 2013

A Blog of Our Own

Fellow Patheos writer Tony Jones recently issued an “Invitation to Christian Feminists” to submit posts...

April 2013

April 19, 2013

Who Needs A Day of Silence?

Today is the National Day of Silence, “a day of action in which students across...

December 2012

December 10, 2012

Getting Theological: Sin

I’m getting back to my series of posts in which I “Get Theological” with the...

November 2012

November 27, 2012

It’s Racism, Stupid

I’ll let actual Republicans do the full post-mortems on their collective failures in the 2012...