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Seeing as God sees
For many years, displeasure with my appearance circled me like so many moons. It hung in the air, oppressing me with every breath. I thought about my body, my face, my hideousness with such constancy...
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Coming after our bodies
I’ve been thinking lately about the first time someone called me fat. We were in our high school parking lot, and I said something he didn’t like, and he shot back at me “Shut up, you fat bitch”. I...
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God doesn’t make mistakes #FaithFeminisms
God doesn’t make mistakes. This feels like a peculiar way to begin a post that is sure to ramble from my lifelong association with feminism to my confidence as a female leader in the Church, that is...
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I wish I had been beautiful
If there is such a thing as emotional-maturity-backsliding, and I believe there is, I have been doing it in spades the last few weeks, and it has involved other women. First I saw a tall woman with...
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Six reactions to Cardinal Burke’s “man-crisis” interview
A few days ago a website with the title “New eMANgelization” published an interview with Cardinal Burke that touched on what they call a “man-crisis” in the Church. After reading a number of summaries...
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Does Catholicism Undervalue Women? The latest from NYT
A friend alerted me today to the New York Times’ latest attempt to protect poor lil’ ladies like me from the big bad oppressive Catholic Church. In a juvenile example of whataboutism, Frank Bruni...
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The privilege of eating; the privilege of flesh
A year ago I was beautiful. ***** One sunny afternoon on our second summer in Assisi, Robert and I decided to explore the bosco, a forest walk next to the Basilica into a valley where Francis is...
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Some words about speaking (or, Even Loudmouths Are Insecure)
Last week I joined 24 Liturgical Music Ministers at Notre Dame Vision to help them wrap up a conference week with two morning presentations. We spent one day on relationships and community, and another...
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Megyn Kelly and the mystery of white feminism
When history judges our era’s collection of liberation movements, it may well note that progress for women’s rights was halting and disjointed. Other groups advocating for legal rights and an end to...
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Loving Your Body is an Act of Faith – my guest post for CBE International
I was honored that the good folks at Christians for Biblical Equality invited me to contribute this month. Enjoy! How many of us have shaped our lives around the message that when we go out to proclaim...
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Hillary and the hope that I might be allowed to age
If I know I have to convince someone of something, I wear more makeup that day. Using the unscientific data of my lived experience, I can safely say that I am more likely to get what I want if I look...
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A woman who likes to eat
The latest dust-up in this distressing election cycle has been Donald Trump’s fat shaming of a former Miss Universe, Alicia Machado. His comments and attitude are disgusting and demeaning: even if you...
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God doesn’t make mistakes #FaithFeminisms
God doesn’t make mistakes. This feels like a peculiar way to begin a post that is sure to ramble from my lifelong association with feminism to my confidence as a female leader in the Church, that is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
I wish I had been beautiful
If there is such a thing as emotional-maturity-backsliding, and I believe there is, I have been doing it in spades the last few weeks, and it has involved other women. First I saw a tall woman with...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Six reactions to Cardinal Burke’s “man-crisis” interview
A few days ago a website with the title “New eMANgelization” published an interview with Cardinal Burke that touched on what they call a “man-crisis” in the Church. After reading a number of summaries...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Does Catholicism Undervalue Women? The latest from NYT
A friend alerted me today to the New York Times’ latest attempt to protect poor lil’ ladies like me from the big bad oppressive Catholic Church. In a juvenile example of whataboutism, Frank Bruni...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The privilege of eating; the privilege of flesh
A year ago I was beautiful. ***** One sunny afternoon on our second summer in Assisi, Robert and I decided to explore the bosco, a forest walk next to the Basilica into a valley where Francis is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Some words about speaking (or, Even Loudmouths Are Insecure)
Last week I joined 24 Liturgical Music Ministers at Notre Dame Vision to help them wrap up a conference week with two morning presentations. We spent one day on relationships and community, and another...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Megyn Kelly and the mystery of white feminism
When history judges our era’s collection of liberation movements, it may well note that progress for women’s rights was halting and disjointed. Other groups advocating for legal rights and an end to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Loving Your Body is an Act of Faith – my guest post for CBE International
I was honored that the good folks at Christians for Biblical Equality invited me to contribute this month. Enjoy! How many of us have shaped our lives around the message that when we go out to proclaim...
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