Showing posts with label patriarchy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label patriarchy. Show all posts
Thursday, December 8, 2022

Pope Francis on Women Priests and Related Recent News Items: "I do not know whether to laugh or cry at Pope Francis’ suggestion about women’s position in the Church"

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Altar of Veit Stoss, descent of the Spirit at Pentecost, St. Mary's Church, Krakow, Poland, photo by Robert Breuer at Wikimedia Commons ...
Sunday, October 25, 2020

Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: "In Reality, Evangelicals Did Not Cast Their Vote [for Trump] Despite Their Beliefs, but Because of Them"

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I recently read Kristin Kobes Du Mez's book Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation (NY: ...
Sunday, September 27, 2020

Cameron Altaras's "Voice of the Residue": The Intergenerational Trauma of Growing up Female in a Patriarchal Religious Context

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In the past, I have shared here some of the valuable work of Cameron Altaras, a scholar working to combat sexual violence based in patriarch...
Thursday, March 5, 2020

More on Forgiveness and Clergy Abuse Situation: Kaya Oakes on Need for New Understandings

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finally starting to directly reckon with how white evangelicalism taught 'forgiveness:' what it is, who it serves, how it's o...
Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Quote for Day: "Church's Radically Patriarchal Leadership Structure and Theology Are at the Root of Most Sex Abuse Cases in the Church"

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Jamie Manson writes, " No, Jean Vanier is not 'like all of us' ":
Sunday, December 8, 2019

As GOP Channels Putin: Commentary on Republican Long Game in Cozying Up to Russia's Strongman Autocrat

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Heather Cox Richardson, " Letters from an American , 7 December 2019 " : In June 2019, Russian President Vladimir Putin...
Wednesday, April 17, 2019

Tara Westover's Educated: "What my father wanted to cast from me wasn't a demon: it was me."

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Having finished reading Tara Westover's Educated  several weeks ago, I've been thinking about what I'd like to say as a c...
Tuesday, April 2, 2019

Miriam Toews' Irma Voth and Tara Westover's Educated: On Patriarchal Religion and Misogynistic Violence

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It's by accident — or synchronicity — that I happen to have read Miriam Toews' novel Irma Voth  at the same time that I'm...
Wednesday, February 20, 2019

"Everything in This Spreading Crisis Revolves Around Structural Mendacity"; "Poland's Most Senior Nun Has Been Banned from Further Media Contact": Talking Abuse

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Poland's most senior nun has been banned from further media contact after condemning the sexual abuse of religious sisters by Cathol...
Friday, February 15, 2019

Stephanie Krehbiel on Religious Groups Facing Abuse Revelations: "Godly Men, Be Quiet"

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This map shows routes of several Southern #Baptist "travelers;" men who preyed on people in one church role & went on to an...
Saturday, October 6, 2018

Commentary: How Kavanaugh's Confirmation Shows What We've Refused to Learn from Catholic Abuse Chronicle, Etc.

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The Rep majority of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Com. @senjudiciary . Don't they look representative of America's people? If you...
Friday, September 28, 2018

Just Me, Mouthing Off About Crux and America and Large Investment of U.S. Catholic Intellectual Elites in Upholding Heterosexual Male Entitlement

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I'm just an old poofter and what I have to say doesn't matter to anyone at all, but Jesum Pete: 
Thursday, September 27, 2018

More Kavanaugh Hearing Tweets: "Why Are All These Men So Angry?" & "If You Can't Imagine What Toxic, Fragile Masculinity Looks Like, Turn on Your Television"

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Why are all these men so angry? — Sarah Posner (@sarahposner) September 27, 2018

Twitter Comments on Grilling of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford: "One of the Ugliest and Most Shameful Things I've Ever Seen"

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Right now, the @GOP is willingly injuring all sexual assault victims a second time. May we remember this in November. — John Pavlovitz...

Kavanaugh Hearing and Catholic Abuse: Overlapping Narratives — Same Catholics Who Support Viganò's Allegations Dismiss Kavanaugh's Accusers

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Today I'm thinking of how many students, over the course of my teaching career, have recoiled, outraged at the thought that a woman...
Thursday, September 20, 2018

Right-Wing Christian Support for Kavanaugh & Dismissal of Male Violence Towards Women: Fight to Keep Patria Potestas as Foundation of "Christian" Culture

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Merriam-Webster Dictionary David Badash, "' Not Relevant': Franklin Graham Says Alleged Kavanaugh Assault Just Something ...
Tuesday, August 21, 2018

Ruth Krall's Risking the Collective on the Space We Make for Violence Against Women and Children, and the Metaphor Systems Legitimating It

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Here's another illuminating passage from Ruth Krall's new monograph Risking the Collective , about which I blogged yesterday . R...
Monday, August 20, 2018

Ruth Krall's Risking the Collective: Commitment of Religious Institutions to Dominant Male Privilege at Root of Abuse of Women and Children

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Theologian Ruth Krall has just published a new monograph at her website . It's called Risking the Collective . I'm reading it now...
Wednesday, August 8, 2018

Story Links to Story: In Recent News, Female Church Member Accuses Megachurch Pastor of Sexual Assault, Catholic Women Come Forth to Tell Stories of Assault, Political and Religious Right Keeps Pinning Abuse on Gays

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Pieces of commentary I've read in the past few days that are, in my view, much more illuminating when read side-by-side:
Saturday, August 4, 2018

The Bigger Picture in Sexual Abuse Stories Inside One Institution After Another: How Does Everyone Know, but Nothing Happens?

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There's a recurring pattern here, isn't there, as if each individual story — spanning different faith communities and o...