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June 2016

June 11, 2016

of monsters, men, and the radical need of divine mercy

The archetypes of male dominance and of female erotic power are both infected with germs...

June 07, 2016

dear christians defending rapists: your prejudice is showing

Our existing prison systems do nothing to eradicate rape mentality: they only shift the focus,...

June 06, 2016

confessing the sin of racism

Looking back, I am ashamed. Now I wish to mend whatever flaw in my soul...

June 05, 2016

the bombing of hiroshima, the case of jane laut, and our immoral preferential option for the powerful

Or is it that we who laud death-dealing violence as an aspect of manliness, the...

June 03, 2016

scapegoating, nature, and narcissism: some thoughts on the cincinnati zoo incident

It is ironic that in our quest to overcome all boundaries, we have enclosed other...

May 2016

May 16, 2016

jesus loves your fat: why fat-shaming is not christian

Jesus loves us, fat and all. Self-loathing and all.

May 10, 2016

an alternative to the fantasy of domination: eco gardening as religious devotion

Travel into space: a Cartesian trip, a technological escape of the mind (real or artificial)...

May 09, 2016

family values should not be a first-world privilege

What I found reading the story of the Mother's Day event, and perusing the comments,...

May 02, 2016

modesty, it turns out, is a thing – but not the thing they said it was

We often hear sermons or admonitions against scanty dress in women, but rarely do we...

April 2016

April 27, 2016

you actually might not want to be so quick to criticize those who are opposing that polish abortion bill

I don’t advocate abortion as the answer to this impossibility. I advocate making better choices...

April 26, 2016

tearing the veil: a contemporary catholic practice and its complicated history

To return to our original topic: can we say that the contemporary practice of veiling...

April 25, 2016

catholic women, (un) veiled: new perspectives on an old practice

I still have no desire to veil myself, though I may occasionally sport a fedora,...

April 21, 2016

a reflection on the radical christian feminism of charlotte brontë, on the bicentennial of her birth

The term "feminist" was not invented yet, in Charlotte Brontë's day, but I will permit...

April 18, 2016

the unbearable boringness of promiscuity

Because eros is not the same as sex. Sex can be an aspect of the...

April 09, 2016

How Feminism Strengthened My Christianity

I dared to think, and to see Mary as a woman who thought, who contemplated,...

April 06, 2016

cultural appropriation is real, and it is a religious issue

Perhaps God does indeed work mysteriously through the turmoil of history, but the divinely comedic...

March 2016

March 24, 2016

Holy Thursday and the Carnivalesque

Depictions of the life of Jesus, in film, vacillate between the sentimental and the gory....