In my intimate circles, Oscar Sunday is a holy day of obligation. And, as with most holidays, the longer I keep it, the more ambivalently I feel about it. There are a host of issues around these films and the industry that generates them, not the least being the way Hollywood reflects and, worse, constructs […]
Feminist studies in religion are a hot commodity in the current political turmoil. So-called women’s issues are front and center in the debates. The long settled question of contraception has been snatched from mothballs for conservatives’ purposes. But there is such a dearth of feminist religious voices, so little room in masculinist journalist and clerical […]
Writing for a blog is just like writing an article, a book, or a dissertation except that it isn’t. The act of putting words on a screen (we used to say putting words on paper) is the same, but there the similarities end. Blogging is a unique approach to communication for which graduate school skills […]
With some trepidation this semester, I created a public blog to be used for assignments in my seminary courses at Drew Theological School. Assigning blogging within the seminary context is still fairly rare. Even more so, is the use of a public blog site, shared between courses at different seminaries. Such pedagogy raises questions about […]