feminism

Why Bachmann and Palin aren’t feminists.

An open letter from an original member of the coven.

I get a hinky feeling when we’re invited to leer at a woman’s body in order to derive righteously indignant moral lessons.

A post-Mother’s Day roundup.

To be a woman, a Muslim, and free.

Hardesty’s legacy: the realization that biblical interpretation is just that—interpretation.

The GCB pilot is being criticized by conservative Christian groups as “hate speech” and “misogyny.” How lovely that they’re taking feminism seriously!

The very leaders criticizing Islam for unequal treatment of women have some curious views on equality.

Historians document centuries of Mormon women’s ritual healing.

Catholic women priests are an oxymoron for the Vatican. It considers them automatically excommunicated before the holy oil is dry on their hands. Other Catholics accept them as sacramental ministers and are delighted with the innovation. Still, others, myself included, want far deeper structural changes in the Catholic Church such that priesthood loses its baked-on charm and ministry becomes the expected task of adult members. This is an important theological conversation that the Vatican wishes would go away. Memo to them: it is just starting.