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A hand-written message entitled “How are you?” was posted on a South Korean university campus by a male student on December 10, 2013. In his posting, the student asked if anyone can truly be okay under the current social, political, and economic situation in South Korea: no apology over the National Intelligence Service’s interference with […]
“Pope Francis effect” may not be so evident among U.S. Catholics, as recent Pew report has put it. But pope’s advocacy for the poor and the marginalized, his personal humility, his comments on homosexuality, abortion, and most recently his critique of “the idolatry of money” have certainly drawn worldwide attention, pleasantly surprising his supporters and […]
Like many others, I was shocked and dismayed at the recent news of José Esteban Muñoz’s untimely death (on December 4), at the early age of 46. (See also the notices here, here, and here.) I always thought there would be time to meet Muñoz in person, having spent so […]
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“They will come and rape the men before the women, that’s what these infidels will do. They will rape the men before the women. God make us victorious over them!” According to an article in the international section of the New York Times, two men belonging to a group called “Jihadists from the Islamic State […]
Are you getting ready for attending the American Academy of Religion/ Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting? I am. Sometimes my colleagues who are newer to the scene and/or those who come from abroad ask me about how to navigate the meeting. Here are my top ten bits of common sense advice especially for […]
The killing of Renisha McBride keeps me up. So does her killer’s non-arrest. What most keeps me up though is the way her death fails to shock so many of us. I don’t mean those of us who “aren’t shocked” (but are dismayed and outraged) because we know McBride’s death (like Jonathan Ferrell’s before it) […]
I read Seth Adam Smith’s post, “Marriage isn’t for you,” and thought it had some good advice, but does it really speak to women today? I rarely write in response to a blog post, but this one kept gnawing at me for days, so I needed to reflect on it to articulate why his understanding […]
Today, Nicholas D Kristof wrote a very irritating op-ed in the New York Times. It has bugged me all morning. I am kind of surprised to hear him make his politically reactionary argument in support of increasing women’s numbers on company boards. After all, he has done some very important journalistic work on the trafficking […]
Being a mom is one of the busiest, fullest, and the happiest adventures in life. At the same time, it is the most challenging, craziest, and disappointing role one can take on. Some women we see in the news make motherhood seem trivial and easy, such as Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo, who returned […]