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January 2018

January 08, 2018

Dr. Estrangedlove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Embrace My Inner Feminist

Why am I the only woman in the room? Because a male friend of mine...

January 06, 2018

Men: Try This One Weird Trick to Get Respect From Women

You have the power to affirm and amplify the value of a woman’s voice or...

January 05, 2018

Sexual Moral Relativism from the Religious Right?

This is not, unfortunately, the first time I have witnessed the claim that Moore’s misconduct...

January 03, 2018

Our Lady of Righteous Anger

until women are the ones leading the conversation about sex, gender, and equality in the...

December 2017

December 28, 2017

“Fake News” and the Silencing of Women

(PSA: trigger warning for language about rape, violence). The summer I was finishing my M.A....

December 20, 2017

God in the Grotesque: a Nativity Scene

here was God, Creator of the Universe, playing with a kraken like a puppy

December 04, 2017

Every Day an Apocalypse

Maybe when I turned away from the dreary end-times prophecies it wasn’t because I rejected...

November 2017

November 12, 2017

How the Religious Right Prepares Women to be Victims of Rape Culture

You're a young woman emerging from far-right religious circles, where modesty is a cult...

November 05, 2017

Why I Refuse to Refer to Abortion as a “Holocaust”

"... I assure you of my spiritual closeness and my sharing in your concern for...

October 2017

October 25, 2017

It’s Not About the Vulgarity

As more reports emerge about the scope of the Harvey Weinstein scandal, and the scale...

October 16, 2017

Not You? Then This is Especially For You

Victims need allies in spaces of power

October 11, 2017

On NFP: Conversations that Need to Happen

"I did it, you can too," is never a viable response to someone who is...

October 04, 2017

It’s Not Just About the Hypocrisy: Representative Tim Murphy, Abortion, and the Problem with Rejecting Consistent Life Ethics

what these men and their supporters represent was never truly pro-life at all

October 03, 2017

Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act: Reasonable Legislation in Defense of Life

We need to have humane laws such as this in place

September 2017

September 16, 2017

Join us in the Revolution of Tenderness

I believe literature is by its very nature interdisciplinary, and creates a space in which...

September 08, 2017

“Fine Folks” and the Banality of Evil

The degeneration into evil happens for the most trivial reasons, in a bourgeois middle-class manner,...

August 2017

August 29, 2017

Why the Pro-Life Movement Needs to Be Rebuilt

In recent weeks, I have observed an alarming uptick in tolerance for racism among Catholic...

August 15, 2017

Does Opposing Nazis Make You “Leftist”?

How many pleasant, decent, respectable Republicans are framing this as a conflict between two political...

August 15, 2017

Christian Ethicists Issue Statement in Condemnation of Racism and White Supremacy

I encourage you to stand in solidarity with them, with us, with the entire body...

July 2017

July 21, 2017

Women’s Literature: The Stories That Are Not Told

The radical idea that women are people too still hasn’t entirely caught on.

July 20, 2017

A Defense of Game of Thrones

Admitting that I am a fan of the hugest TV hit series of the moment...

July 06, 2017

When I Try to Say “God,” Strange Sounds Come Out

I had tried to make them overtly religious, failing to recognize that every one of...

June 2017

June 20, 2017

When Priests Display Misogyny, They Subvert the Persona Christi

The real heart of the problem with this anti-woman approach is not just tacky style,...

June 15, 2017

What Do Almost All Mass Shooters Have in Common?

Is there a cultural trend that promotes violence for some people? Is there a cultural...

June 11, 2017

The Warrior Princess: An Ambiguous Archetype

With Wonder Woman as the hot film of the moment, it’s inevitable that we should...

June 05, 2017

A Pro-Life Feminist Perspective on Breastfeeding and Fetishism

The breast is not reducible to a sexual object. It has a function in the...

June 01, 2017

With the Paris Accord, Listen to our Popes – Not Trump

Why can we not see how our sinfulness mars the very soil on which we...

May 2017

May 31, 2017

On Selective Outrage: Kathy Griffin, Trump, Obama, and the Right

I thought her display disturbing, and her apology insincere.

May 29, 2017

When the Right Supports the Burning of the Flag

But there are some things no power, state or federal, has a right to decree.

May 26, 2017

Pro-Life Sexual Ethics Without Punishment or Shame

Bottom line: there is no excuse for Christians to fail to be merciful toward sexual...

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