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As many reading this blog may have already heard, Dr. Ada María Isasi-Díaz passed away in the early morning on May 13, 2012. While there are many other more qualified scholars, colleagues and friends to write a memorializing blog than I, I take up the task with humility and responsibility. I have known Ada since 1999 when she spoke in one of Rev. More >
It no longer stings on Mother’s Day. My mother died in 2003 after a brief illness. My sister and two aunts surrounded her as we watched the monitors flat line while the breathing machine kept pumping false life into her. This was not the way she wished to go, and it was hard for my sister and me to not be able to fulfill her wish as fully as we wanted to. “It’s not quantity of life, it’s quality of life,” she said to us many times. Now on Mother’s Day, I find myself urging friends whose mothers are still living to cherish the time with them if they can a bit m More >
Second Conference of the Feminisms Study in Religions, that taking place in Palma de Mallorca, Spain from 9-12 July, 2012.During these four days, we will share an extensive program that includes three seminars by Dr. Ulrike Auga, Professor of Theology and Gender Studies, Religious Science and Ecumenism, in the Theology School of the Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany. More >
Lady Gaga, an Italian American pop singer and a self-described Catholic, has launched her “Born This Way Ball” tour in various locations in Asia. Her itinerary, which includes Tokyo, Hong Kong, Taipei, Manila, Bangkok, and Jakarta, debuted at Seoul’s Olympic Park on April 27, 2012. While her fans hailed her with cheers, a group of conservative Korean Christians greeted her with street banners that publicly denounced her performance, having prayed that her concert would not take place in Korea. More >
As much as the 2012 U.S. presidential election and issues related to it have been at the center of public debate in America, so too have the election of the 19th National Assembly members (April 11th) and the 2012 presidential election (December) occupied the hearts and minds of people in South Korea. Given the heavy influence of the U.S.—political, military, and economic—on the Korean peninsula, it is not surprising that FTA (Free Trade Agreement) with the U.S. More >
I am less than a month away from finishing my first year as full-time faculty member. Even though I have been teaching in seminaries for the past five years as an adjunct and lecturer, stepping onto the tenure treadmill has raised new questions about scholarship and teaching for me. On most days, I have resisted the urge (or pressure) to use the tenure measuring stick to determine the value of my daily intellectual activities. More >
I worry a lot about contraception these days. No, I have not taken a sudden relational turn, nor figured out how to reset my biological clock. The ethical conversation has simply emerged around me—was I asleep at the switch—in ways that I never expected and find deeply disturbing. More >
The following lines of poetry, first breathed by Sufi mystic Rumi and later masterfully translated into English by Coleman Barks, inspire both my theological locus and the way in which I make art. Rumi writes:Let the beauty we love be what we do.There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.[1] More >
Academic and professional mentorship opportunity provided by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s Religion and Faith Program and the Carpenter Program in Religion, Gender, and Sexuality at Vanderbilt University. More >