As part of FSR, Inc.’s Across Generations project, we asked feminists from and beyond the academy respond to this vital question: “What is the importance of feminist and womanist work in religious and theological studies?” at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion in San Diego (2014). What follows is the […]
By Kate Stoltzfus When WATER began in the 1980s, according to co-founder Mary E. Hunt, its technological tools for a mission of feminist social justice in religion were equivalent to scratching in the sand with a stick. The Women’s Alliance for Theology, Ethics, and Ritual did not have computers or smartphones. The newsletter took shape […]
By Niamh Middleton After Madonna’s scary and dangerous fall at the recent Brit awards, Piers Morgan wrote an uncomplimentary article entitled “Falling off the stage, Madonna, is God’s way of telling you you’re too old to cavort like a hooker.” I was surprised that someone of Piers Morgan’s fame and status would publicly kick a woman […]
By Rebecca Todd Peters People enter the academy for a variety of reasons. Some of us love books and learning and see the academy as an avenue for life-long learning; others are passionate about a particular area of knowledge and inquiry and desire nothing more than to talk about it with others who share their […]
By Rebecca Alpert and Thelathia “Nikki” Young In December 2014 the leaders of Women’s Alliance for Theology, Ethics, and Ritual (commonly known as WATER) gathered a group of fourteen together at a bucolic Catholic retreat center in Maryland. Our task was to respond to the challenge of “amplifying women’s voices” in the LGBT religious movement. […]
By Emily Hill The Disneyland measles outbreak in December and the cases of measles that have been popping up all over America and Canada in the last couple of months have received much media attention. The outbreaks have been blamed on “anti-vaxxers”—those who choose not to have their children vaccinated for fear of the adverse […]
“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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
I cannot get the photo out of my head that presents a collage of twenty of the House Republicans responsible for shutting down the government since October 1, 2013. There are more than twenty of them but the photo shows those elected by wide margins. In other words, these twenty politicians “stand their ground” because […]