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By Mary E. Hunt. The Women’s Alliance for Theology, Ethics, and Ritual (WATER) convened the 22nd working meeting of Feminist Liberation Theologians’ Network at the American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado on Friday, November 16, 2018 from 4-6 PM. Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza and Mary E. Hunt presided at the […]
By Grace Ji-Sun Kim. “There is no greater agony, than bearing an untold story inside you” – Maya Angelou The written word is a powerful source of change; it moves people, drawing them out of their familiar realities and bringing them into new ones, imagined and true. It lures us to question what we know […]
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 […]
“Off the Press” is an FSR series that highlights the exciting news and accomplishments of our FSR Board membership that they wish to be shared with the wider community. Megan Goodwin (EFSR) published “Unpacking the Bunker: Sex, Abuse, and Apocalypticism in ‘Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’” CrossCurrents (2019) and was interviewed for podcast on the “Challenges and Responsibilities for the […]
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 […]
“Off the Press” is an FSR series that highlights the exciting news and accomplishments of our FSR Board membership that they wish to be shared with the wider community. Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza’s (FSR/FFSR) commentary on Ephesians in the Wisdom Commentary Series of Liturgical Press has received the 2018 First Place in the category of Scripture: Academic Studies […]
“Off the Press” is an FSR series that highlights the exciting news and accomplishments of our FSR Board membership that they wish to be shared with the wider community. Shelley Best (BFSR author) is using her ministry to curate “Audacious Agency” at Yale Divinity School. “Audacious Agency” is a “touring exhibition features an eclectic mix of unique […]
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 […]
“To be alive at such an epoch is a privilege, to be a woman then is sublime.”[1] These are the words of scholar and activist, Anna Julia Cooper. Her historical assessment is piercing as she wrestles with the “unproclaimed influence of black women” in her book, A Voice from the South by A Black Woman from […]