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 […]
Violence comes in many forms. Like me, many of you are committed to anti-racist, feminist ways of being and, no doubt, have spent much energy this week engaged in challenging conversations in classrooms, faith communities and other environments. We insist that public discourse on “violence” in Baltimore be framed around police violence and white supremacist […]
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 […]
I was drawn to the academic discipline of ethics because it was about making moral claims, calling for actions, and evaluating the impact of current and past social and religious structures. Doing Christian ethics, I thought, could be synonymous with activism. However, as I spend more and more time in front of a computer or […]
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. […]
This is a dialogical blog between Dr. Rebecca T. Alpert, Professor of Religion at Temple University and an ordained rabbi, and me. Susanne: So here we are a few days after the New York Times article entitled “Same-Sex Interfaith Couples Face Roadblock to Marriage in Judaism,” written by Mark Oppenheimer and published on January […]
Today is Super Bowl Sunday. Does it make you reflect on God? The past week has been full of questions about deflated balls, playing through injury, media requirements for players, halftime hype and fan party planning. In the midst of the usual pre-Super Bowl media frenzy, a smaller story broke about God’s role in football. […]
A version of this blog was posted previously at The Huffington Post. It is an unsettling thing, sitting next to a Christmas tree and attempting to put heartsickness into words. Christmas is supposed to be a time of glad tidings and good cheer–twinkling lights, red noses, warm mittens. But under the iconic neon of Times Square […]
Guest Author, Elias Ortega-Aponte is Assistant Professor of Afro-Latinos/a Religions and Cultural Studies at Drew University Theological School in Madison, NJ. Three days after the shooting of Mike Brown, President Obama issued a statement addressing the events. In this August 12 statement, the president urged the people of Ferguson, Missouri, and the nation, to […]
It’s not every year that a journal celebrates its 30th Anniversary, so we at Feminist Studies in Religion, Inc. invite you to join us in the celebrating JFSR through our various platforms and events coming up this fall season! Your Voice, Your Story: Social Media We’d love to hear from you how you plan to […]