Public Voice - Feminism in Religion Forum

Attention all campus ministers, youth workers, student chaplains, and assorted colleagues who work with young people: A number of leading women in the Protestant world began their work in and...

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This blog has moved to the new Feminist Studies in Religion website at http://www.fsrinc.org/blog

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Last week, 10 medical aid workers were killed in Afghanistan. The leader of the team, Dr. Tom Little , was the father of my good friend. Tom Little and his wife Libby spent over 33 years living a...

http://fir-publicvoice.blogspot.com/2010/08/last-week-10-medical-aid-workers-were.html

On behalf of the co-editors of FSRInc.org, I am writing to share a request that was forwarded to us regarding Karen McCarthy Brown. Author of Mama Lola, Karen’s work has crossed boundaries i...

http://fir-publicvoice.blogspot.com/2010/06/honoring-karen-mccarthy-brown.html

I listened to songs from Cris Williamson’s album The Changer and the Changed (1975) recently. I hadn’t heard that wonderful and historically important “women’s music” since the mid...

http://fir-publicvoice.blogspot.com/2010/05/endless-waterfall.html

Ecclesial reform has been on my mind lately. In search of some inspiration, I picked up Rosemary Radford Ruether’s book Catholic ≠ The Vatican: A Vision for Progressive Catholicism. At the ou...

http://fir-publicvoice.blogspot.com/2010/04/liturgical-reform-in-time-of-crisis.html

It’s been a year since Iowa shocked progressives on both coasts and became—as local t-shirts love to proclaim—“officially cooler than California.” On April 3, 2009 our Supreme Court ...

http://fir-publicvoice.blogspot.com/2010/04/iowa-one-year-later.html

While I usually get a range of responses, I was struck by the fact that this year three of my students described situations in which family members left the Roman Catholic Church due to a priest�...

http://fir-publicvoice.blogspot.com/2010/02/clergy-sexual-misconduct-and-abuse-of.html

I recently read with interest Nicholas Kristof's piece in the New York Times about the importance of religion in dealing with justice for women. While we who have been doing that work for decade...

http://fir-publicvoice.blogspot.com/2010/02/women-religion-and-nicholas-kristof.html

I was on retreat at Canterbury Cathedral in England all of last week. A luminous and powerful place – the 11th-century undercroft is a truly extraordinary place to pray. One morning at break...

http://fir-publicvoice.blogspot.com/2010/02/feminist-imagination.html

In the January 27, 2010 "Justice for All " blog put out by the American Association of People with Disabilities, there was an announcement from Green Mountain Self-Advocates about a new sexualit...

http://fir-publicvoice.blogspot.com/2010/02/new-sexuality-education-curriculum.html

We who are called to a ministry in solidarity with people in historically marginalized groups know their/our struggles against the poison of problematic biblical texts. We are acutely aware of po...

http://fir-publicvoice.blogspot.com/2010/02/crippled-woman-bound-by-satan-for.html

Amongst the survivors of the deadly earthquake in Haiti is an especially vulnerable, yet mostly invisible population: the more than 63,000 pregnant Haitian women who are without access to med...

http://fir-publicvoice.blogspot.com/2010/01/haiti-no-place-to-give-birth.html

The Public Voice blog is a forum for Feminism in Religion . . . and we invite you to join in the tributes and comments for the late Mary Daly. Add your thoughts . . .

http://fir-publicvoice.blogspot.com/2010/01/tributes-to-mary-daly.html

Sarah Palin, the Republican Vice Presidential candidate, has sparked a firestorm of discussion on many feminist issues. A conservative Christian, she is closely identified with an agenda that in ...

http://fir-publicvoice.blogspot.com/2008/09/sarah-palin-republican-vice.html

The Public Voice dialogue of Feminism in Religion Forum first started in November of 2007. Since that time, we have discovered that our site requires a more interactive style. We have moved to a ...

http://fir-publicvoice.blogspot.com/2008/09/voices-of-women-religious-scholars-in.html

Originally Posted November 2007 Last Thursday, November 8, I chaired a session titled "Challenges of Religion in a Globalized World" at a small conference about "Women, Religion and Development"...

http://fir-publicvoice.blogspot.com/2008/09/naomi-goldenberg-public-voice.html

Originally Posted November 2007 There are two questions I want to raise here involving religious scholars and the public sphere. First, many scholars are also activists, so I want to use the ter...

http://fir-publicvoice.blogspot.com/2008/09/kathleen-mcphillips-public-voice.html

Originally Posted November 2007 Religion is bandied about a good bit in the media these days. The coverage, however, is often a troubling caricature of religions and rarely, if ever, provides a ...

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Originally Posted November 2007 I read two major U.S. East Coast newspapers every day, two daily digests of progressive and conservative religion and politics news, and several weekly news journ...

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