Category: anti-oppression

“The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice,” Martin Luther King Jr.  Whenever the March on Washington comes up, I throw in that I marched on Minneapolis. These smaller marches around the country don’t usually get noticed, but this one did this year, on the 60th anniversary, August 28, 2023,  because I…
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One of my news sources of choice is The Nation magazine. I read it weekly because I find stories that are different from those trending even in the liberal side of the mainstream press. There’s a closer look and often a challenge to the status quo, whatever the subject. The subject is rarely religion, but…
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In writing practice you choose a prompt, set a timer, and go. The only rule is that you need to keep your hand moving. And trust that what needs to emerge will, even if it is buried in countless pages of surface-level stuff. If we keep looking deep within, we will find the gems we…
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This is about the beauty and boldness of Eucharistic communities.  On the margins of the institutional church, my experience has been that women priests are more courageous and more willing to infuse their liturgies with issues of social and racial justice.   Not to say that male priests in Eucharistic communities don’t, but in my experience,…
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Moral theology has always made a great deal of sense to me. As a well-educated but non-specialist lay person, I like thinking seriously about issues in a way that is not simply political. Again this week, America has provided us with a continuing conversation about gender theory, with essays by two theologians: Abigail Favale of…
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Each morning I have to wait an hour after taking a prescribed medication before I can eat anything or – gulp! – even have coffee. What does anyone do with an hour like that? Nothing especially productive in my case. (Please don’t judge: I haven’t had coffee yet!) What I do manage to do is…
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Feminist and LGBTQ Twitter was a-buzz the last few weeks with conversations about a new modern adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Fire Island (rated R) is based on the real-life setting of Fire Island (an island near Long Island, NY) that is home to two LGBTQ-centric resorts, Fire Island Pines is a gay…
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I often strive to find a way to say a “new thing” or to bring something forth in a “new light”. If you have read past posts, I’m sure you may have already noted successes and failures in this endeavor! This week I’d like to bring you a “new light” into our struggle as women…
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This is it: No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance. Fifty years ago, this brief provision was inserted into the education law of the United…
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The January 6 hearings are what’s preoccupying me this week. They raise as many moral issues as anything else, but I don’t want to write about all that. Rather, I will call your attention to expanded dimensions of what will preoccupy us sometime soon: what does it mean to protect life, especially from the perspective…
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