Showing posts with label feminist theology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label feminist theology. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 9, 2015

Katha Pollitt on Laudato Si': "If Pope Francis Really Wanted to Fight Climate Change, He'd Be a Feminist"

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And more outstanding commentary today — this by Katha Pollitt at The Nation   noting that   Pope Francis's considerable blind spo...
Friday, February 6, 2015

Mary Hunt on Vatican Council on Women: Funny If It Weren't So Insulting

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In the hope of encouraging you to read Mary Hunt's wonderful essay on the Vatican council on women at Religion Dispatches today,...
Thursday, January 8, 2015

Commentary on Cardinal Burke and the New Emangelization Project

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"Men need to dress and act like men..." -Cardinal Burke, pictured, in an interview http://t.co/uAkzd65VgH pic.twitter.com/BRHsOP...
Saturday, December 13, 2014

Theologians Pope Francis Would Do Well to Read: Ivone Gebara on Catholic Church's Insistence on Maternal Role of Women

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In the theologians-Pope-Francis-would-do-well-to-read category today, here's Brazilian theologian Ivone Gebara on what the maternity...
Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Catholic Synod on the Family: Theologians Talking about Women, Democracy and Human Rights, Catholic Families — and Jesus

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As the Catholic synod on the family nears, I'm spotting more and more commentary focusing on the distance (in the view of many ...
Monday, August 18, 2014

Sister Elizabeth Johnson to LCWR: "The Submerged Female Half of the Church, Indeed of the Human Race, Is Rising"

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Sister Elizabeth Johnson , as she accepted the the top award of the Leadership Conference of Religious Women last week: 
Monday, June 2, 2014

Rebecca Solnit on Struggle to Name the Significance of Isla Vista Shootings as "Watershed Moment in the History of Feminism"

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In yesterday's New York Times , Charles Blow continues the post-Isla Vista drumbeat of insistence that men, all men, need to fac...
Saturday, May 3, 2014

Quote for Day: "Said Another Way: Sexism Affords As Much Bondage As Racism"

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Delores Williams,  Sisters in the Wilderness: The Challenge of Womanist God-Talk (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1993):
Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Beverly Wildung Harrison on Connections Between Racism and Misogyny, and Story of Donald Sterling: These -Isms Hang Together in Web of Patriarchy

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Recently, when I wrote about Andrew Sullivan's take on Jonathan Rauch's essay  calling for special tolerance for those who ...
Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Former President Carter on Women, Religion, Violence, and Power: An Interview with Sister Maureen Fiedler

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For Interfaith Voices, Sister Maureen Fiedler interviews President Jimmy Carter  about his new book  A Call to Action: Women, Religio...
Saturday, April 5, 2014

Footnote to Brendan Eich Discussion: Yes, It Is about Gender, Race, and Sexual Orientation

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"In discourse and analysis," Catholic feminist theologian Ivone Gebara says (citing French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu) ...
Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Feminist Theologians on the Bible and Slavery and Christian Theology and Skin Color: Applications to Debate about Gay Marriage

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Two interlocking quotations from feminist theologians I've been reading lately--Delores S. Williams and Ivone Gebara:
Monday, March 17, 2014

Sister Elizabeth Johnson Talks About Her Vocation As a Theologian: "There Were These Men and They Had All the Power"

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At BuzzFeed, a marvelous article by Jamie Manson surveying the theological career of Sister Elizabeth Johnson, whose book Quest for ...
Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Ivone Gebara on the Violence of the World's Main Religions Against Women, and Extension of This Violence to "All Kinds of People"

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In my posting several days ago , I cited Ivone Gebara's  Out of the Depths: Women’s Experience of Evil and Salvation , trans. and...
Friday, March 7, 2014

Placing Pope Francis's Remarks about a Theology of Women Against the Backdrop of Ivone Gebara's Real Theology of Women

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Sister Ivone Gebara One of the themes that emerged in Pope Francis's anniversary interview this week was the question of the p...
Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Ash Wednesday Meditation: Ivone Gebara on the Communtarian Dimension of the Cross

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Today's Ash Wednesday, a day in which some Christian liturgical traditions limn crosses of ash on the foreheads of the faithful, ...
Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Delores Williams on Black Womanist Theology, the Cross, and the Rape and Defilement of Nature

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Delores S. Williams, Sisters in the Wilderness: The Challenge of Womanist God-Talk (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1993):
Sunday, February 16, 2014

Stephanie Krehbiel on the Woody Allen Case and the Problem of John Howard Yoder: A Must-Read Article

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A must-read article from this past week: Stephanie Krehbiel on the "Woody Allen Problem": how is it possible to read pacif...