Since the federal election last Tuesday, I have been scratching my head and trying to understand how 332 electoral college votes and 50.5% of the popular vote is now not a mandate (according to all persuasions of reporters) when in 2004 Bush garnered 286 electoral college votes and 50.7% and it was. Is the 0.2% […]
Question: “What impact can feminist theologies have domestically in the political realm in regards with US foreign policy, war and global dominance? How can feminist theologies and women’s work in the church and society influence a real change of paradigm to move effectively from the “necrophilia of patriarchy” (Mary Daly) -militarism and resource pillaging- to […]
In our globalizing world, people constantly move from one place to another. Within the United States, we have immigrants from all over the world who are immigrating into America for a new life. As immigrants come, they find many cultural, social, language and religious differences separating themselves from opportunity. Added to this, at times, it […]
The following blog series are contributions from the panel on the status of women in church and society held at the September 2012 Social Ethics Network (SEN) meeting of the Presbyterian Church, USA. A group of five panelists were gathered by Rebecca Todd Peters of Elon University and Elizabeth Hinson-Hasty of Bellarmine University. Those who […]
Growing up in the liberal segregated south of Durham, NC in the late 1950s and 1960s, one of the things that was drummed into little Black kids heads was the power and right of voting. From Civics classes to conversations in our homes to messages from stormy pulpits, we learned the story of the hard […]
This is the second in a series of blogs expanding the covnersation from the JFSR Roundtable to honor the 50th anniversary of Valerie Saiving’s article, “The Human Situation: A feminine View.” A newspaper clipping from the New York Times has been taped to my office door since December 2006. The heading on the page […]
Harvard Professor Karen King’s recent discovery of a Coptic papyrus that mentions Jesus’ wife and speaks of a female disciple is simply the latest contribution to a long line of discoveries about early Christian women. In stressing that hers is the first word on this papyrus, but not the last, she sets a model for […]
Dear Americans: In 1945, French philosopher Jean Paul-Sartre reflected on his visit to America and wrote, “In this land of freedom and equality there live thirteen million untouchables. They wait on your table, they polish your shoes, they operate your elevator, they carry your suitcases into your compartment, but they have nothing to do with […]
Is there anybody left who hasn’t heard about the fourth-century papyrus Karen L. King, professor at Harvard Divinity School, calls “The Gospel of Jesus’s wife”? The fragment contains only a few lines of Coptic text, one of them stating: “Jesus said to them, ‘My wife…’” It is still uncertain if the fragment is for “real,” […]
The recent Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, 28.1 features a roundtable discussion on Fifty Years of Reflection on Valerie Saiving. Contributors to the Roundtable will bring the conversation to the Feminism in Religion forum to open the discussion to an interactive audience. Throughout the next few months, contributors will feature a selection from their […]