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There is a statute of limitations on prosecuting sexual crimes. But there is no time limitation on revealing past truths. When I was a child, bad things happened to me. I have told only 2 people in this world what happened to me. However, because I never ‘reported’ it, it doesn’t make my experience less […]
EDITORS’ NOTE The editors of the JFSR apologize for a grave error that recurs throughout volume 34, number 1. References to trans women and trans men were edited to read transwomen and transmen. We recognize that for many readers this appellation is deeply insulting as it implies that such persons are not fully women or […]
We are happy to announce the arrival of the newest issue of JFSR: Volume 34, Number 1 (Spring 2018). This is a special issue dedicated to trans and queer scholarship, dialogue, and teaching. It contains a literature review essay on trans* studies in religion, an Across Generations conversation with Dr. Virginia Ramey Mollenkott, a roundtable […]
By James N. Hoke. I ponder this scenario often: a student comes to my “Introduction to Biblical Studies” class wearing a t-shirt that says “God Hates F***”.[1] Do I make them remove or cover it, leave the classroom? Do I drop my lesson plan and engage it right there? Do I let it be—to see how others […]
By Karenna Gore. This collection of essays is an excellent and necessary contribution to religious thought at this extraordinary time. The impacts of man-made climate change have begun to arrive—the intensified heat waves, droughts, wildfires, and stronger storms, and related effects such as the rising of sea levels and migration and extinction of life forms. […]
By Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza. First of all, I want to thank the editors for their careful work in planning and shepherding this volume to publication and the contributors for their stimulating and energizing work. Planetary Solidarity is a milestone in Christian Systematic The*logy. The editors, Professors Kim and Koster, clearly state the focus of the book: […]
By Rosemary P. Carbine. In the landmark environmental encyclical Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home (2015), Pope Francis portrays global environmental crises in similar ways to ecofeminist theologies that interconnect the exploitation, degradation, and deterioration of the environment with the subjugation of women (LS 1-2, 53). From the letter’s opening paragraphs, Francis implicitly […]
By Hilda P. Koster. The oil development in North Dakota has brought thousands of unattached male workers to previously sparsely populated rural areas. These workers are often housed in so called “man-camps” which have become launching pads for sexual predators and a lucrative market for sex-traffickers. My contribution to Planetary Solidarity offers that the extraction […]
By Melanie L Harris. Ecowomanism is a growing area within the discipline of environmental ethics that promotes earth-justice and combines theo-ethical and environmental ethical analysis with traditional womanist intersectional race, class, gender analysis.[1] In addition to examining how racism, classism, and sexism shape the moral realities and theo-ethical perspectives of women of color, and especially […]
By Jea Sophia Oh. In order to live, one must die. The principle of life is that it comes from death. Jesus compared his death of the cross to a seed that falls to the ground and dies. A seed has a potential to bear a lot of fruit because there is life in a […]