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May 2018

May 14, 2018

Where Are the Poor in the Spectacle of the Church?

If there was any scandal in the Met Gala, it is that when the world...

April 2018

April 10, 2018

Want to Confront Racism in Pro-Life Communities? Support Racial Justice Advocates

In months to come, the New Pro Life Movement is going to make combating racism...

March 2018

March 19, 2018

So You Have a Problem With Diversity….

Do you see the presupposition behind this? It’s that non-diversity is natural, organic, and better.

January 2018

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 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....

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...

September 2017

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 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...

June 2017

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...

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 24, 2017

Abortion: the Most Important Moral Issue Ever….Except for When it’s Not

Let that sink in. A young woman in a crisis pregnancy chose life, but Christians...

April 2017

April 24, 2017

When Christian Women Tell You What We Hear

"A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle" is taken as an...

April 15, 2017

Mary Magdalene – Preacher or Prostitute?

Both the prostitute legend and the wife theory reduce Mary to her sexuality. And so,...

April 10, 2017

Jesus was not an alpha

unless you want to define and redefine and twist the concept until it has no...

March 2017

March 22, 2017

The Ever-Moving Goalpost of Eliminating Abortion Supply

What is emerging is a right-wing narrative that favors eugenics, nativism, social Darwinism, and white...

March 05, 2017

shocking material in fairy tales – or, nothing new under the sun

The old stories that come to us out of an older, folk mythos, have been...

February 2017

February 08, 2017

the marginalization of the disabled: a pro-life issue

Parents of special-needs children are concerned, and rightly so, about the new administration. It could...

December 2016

December 08, 2016

on banned books and safe spaces

The good writer is never content simply with a surface ripple, but dives down deep....

December 07, 2016

imagine if you had a miscarriage – and were sent to jail for it

At least when I started bleeding in Whole Foods, I knew I could safely go...

November 2016

November 28, 2016

advent, our season of eros and discontent

It is the season which acknowledges our fundamental inability to rest perfectly easily in the...

November 19, 2016

is “pro-life” supposed to refer only to abortion?

Was the term “pro-life” specifically coined to mean “anti-abortion,” without reference to other issues...

November 09, 2016

update: it seems “prolife” was never on trump’s policy page to begin with

Earlier today several of us here at Patheos wrote about the possibility that Trump had...

November 09, 2016

did trump just remove “prolife” from his policies website?

I stated all along that Trump was a liar, but his supporters took him at...

November 03, 2016

Catholic Women Have Mary – So What Are We Complaining About?

We don't have Mary. The men have her, neatly fossilized in pink-and-white statues, silent, subdued.

October 2016

October 20, 2016

how dare those emotional, sissified women distract us with their hysterics over sexual assault

Do you get this? Sexual assault is just being "mean and bullying." Objecting to it...

September 2016

September 28, 2016

has “pro-life” become just a brand?

Just as a sports fan obsessively cheers for his team even after it's traded his...