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By Sara Ronis. Though Hollywood movies often portray teaching as the solitary work of (usually) male geniuses,[1] teaching is a collaborative project. It is collaborative within departments and schools, and across the wider world available through the internet. Emily O. Gravett and Lindsay Bernhagen have noted that collaboration is a “defining feature of feminist practice.” […]
By Susan Thistlethwaite. Adapted from her talk given at the Feminist Liberation Theologians’ Network meeting on November 16, 2018. I always feel more secure when I reach into my purse, and I find some change. When I was a child, one of the ways my father controlled my mother was occasionally not giving her money […]
By Cynthia Moe-Lobeda. Adapted from her talk given at the Feminist Liberation Theologians’ Network meeting on November 16, 2018. Resistance to advanced global capitalism (also known as neo-liberalism and as corporate-and-finance-driven capitalism) has generated a vital movement to forge alternative forms of economic life on global, national, and local levels. These alternatives share the three […]
By Claire E. Sufrin. The Jewish holiday of Purim fell this year on Thursday, March 21. The holiday celebrates the survival of the Jews of Shushan long, long ago as told in the biblical book of Esther. The story centers on Esther, a young Jewish woman, whose uncle Mordecai encourages her to compete to become […]
Call for Papers: Care Ethics, Religion and Spiritual Traditions. Deadline: April 15, 2019. Contact: [email protected]. Official Posting: Call for Papers Care Ethics, Religion and Spiritual Traditions Feminist Care Ethics has received extensive attention in a variety of fields over the past quarter century including political science, philosophy, education, social work, sociology and more. Surprisingly given that virtually all mainstream […]
By Karen Erlichman. There are so many ways to be, do and feel Jewish. I can attest to this over the course of my lifetime, as a young girl who felt called to become a rabbi before women were being ordained as rabbis, as a nascent feminist in high school and college, then coming out […]
By Karen Ross. As a Catholic adolescent girl, I received many messages both implicitly and explicitly about my body and my sexuality. I noticed from an early age that within my Catholic cultural environment, touching or even talking about your genitalia and reproductive organs as a young woman was inappropriate, and even dirty, especially outside […]
By Lauren D. Sawyer. For the past several months, I have been informally gathering stories from my friends about their experiences with evangelical purity culture, the world of abstinence pledges, purity rings, and kissing dating goodbye. I caught up with my friend Grace, who reminded me of the Spiritual Emphasis Week we attended at our […]
By Mika Ahuvia. A few years ago, I was asked to contribute to a conference panel discussion of sexual violence in foundational religious texts, with particular emphasis on giving survivors resources. I decided to return to a text I’d studied years earlier in a progressive yeshiva, a text which had always troubled me. What stayed […]
By Rebecca J. Epstein-Levi. During the recent Senate Judiciary Committee hearings about the sexual assault allegations against him, now- Justice Brett Kavanaugh found, among his obfuscations and fulminations about the damage done to his honor and that of the house of his fathers, several opportunities to aver his particular fondness for beer: Yes, we drank beer. […]