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 >
Mary E. Hunt
Co-Director, WATER
Mary E. Hunt, Ph.D., is a feminist Catholic theologian and co-director of the Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual (WATER) in Silver Spring, Maryland. Dr. Hunt lectures and writes on theology and ethics. She is the editor of A Guide for Women in Religion: Making Your Way from A to Z (Palgrave, 2004) and co-editor with Diann L. Neu of New Feminist Christianity: Many Voices, Many Views (SkyLight Paths, 2010).
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Feminist studies in religion are a hot commodity in the current political turmoil. So-called women’s issues are front and center in the debates. The long settled question of contraception has been snatched from mothballs for conservatives’ purposes. But there is such a dearth of feminist religious voices, so little room in masculinist journalist and clerical discussions to get a word in edgewise, that almost anything we add to the conversation is useful. Whoever expected that our training would be so valuable? More >
Writing for a blog is just like writing an article, a book, or a dissertation except that it isn’t. The act of putting words on a screen (we used to say putting words on paper) is the same, but there the similarities end.Blogging is a unique approach to communication for which graduate school skills can be detrimental. My attempts to blog have taught me a few things that I share with academics in the hope that some will try their own hands at this. It is nothing we trained for but something we can learn. More >