The Road to Emmaus by Spencer Reece. Review by Katie Herman.
2014
God on Wheels: Disability and Jewish Feminist Theology
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At kiddush one day, I was welcoming a visitor to synagogue when she popped the question. “What’s wrong with you?” she asked as her eyes flicked from my face to my wheels. I’ve been asked this question in an astounding array of inappropriate venues; I didn’t flinch. “I have a disability,” I said, though it was plain she’d already noticed. A firm full stop followed that statement, though I knew full well I didn’t answer her question.
Culture
Recalculating
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And then, there he was again. The chutzpa, calling her, after so many years, his notions of her still intact, his cavalier assumption of intimate knowledge and his selective amnesia. He was not easily put off.
2014
Two Feminist Views of Goddess and God
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Feminist theologians agree that the old view of a male God has got to go. But the debate gets heated when we talk about what should take its place.
2014
God and Goddess Emerging
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In this historical moment, we need to blend a panentheism that recognizes humans as in and part of God with the radical visions of God as YHVH (source of transformation) and El Shaddai (a love-oriented Breasted God).
29.3 Summer
The Shadow Side of Freedom: Building the Religious Counterculture
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When did liberal religion start valuing personal autonomy over collective values of love and justice? We need to prioritize a new kind of freedom.
Articles
Alona Kimhi’s Magical Brutalism
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Lily La Tigresse is unsparing in its critique, but it’s also seminal in terms of launching its indictment of Israel—a society that, in Kimhi’s view, is no more generous or compassionate than the barbarous terrain of Europe, not to mention the U.S.S.R.
2014
Violence Against Women: We Need a Transnational Analytic of Care
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When gender-based violence occurs in the Global South, how should feminists in the Global North respond?
Fiction
The Lady in Bonesweep
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The longer she read, the longer the effect seemed to last. One lamp. One bed. One smooth flat sky-blue pillow beneath her head. Inside a single cage of ribs, her heart stood still.
2013
Gay Men in the Locker Room of the World – Big Whoop
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NBA player Jason Collins is the first active player in the four major U.S. sports to declare himself gay since Glenn Burke in the 1970s. For a nation that remains contemptuous of nonconforming notions of masculinity, the Collins event is not a question of tolerance for gays, but of masculine identity itself: can a man who falls in love with other men be integrated into the American ideal of manhood?
2013
Why Identity Group Work Strengthens Our Capacity for All Liberation Work
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There is value for leaders in being deeply rooted in their own primary identity group while at the same time learning how to be a fierce ally for all groups.
2013
Once Out of Nature: Life Beyond the Gender Binary
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To truly include transgender people within Abrahamic religious traditions, we have to shatter the idol of the gender binary and face the truth that trans people embody—the truth that the gender binary represents neither the nature of nature, nor the nature of humanity, nor the nature of God.
2013
Revolutionary Suicide: Risking Everything to Transform Society and Live Fully
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We need to commit revolutionary suicide. By this I mean not the killing of our bodies but the destruction of our attachments to security, status, wealth, and power. These attachments prevent us from becoming spiritually and politically alive. They prevent us from changing the violent structure of the society in which we live. When Huey Percy Newton, the cofounder of the Black Panther Party, called us to “revolutionary suicide,” it appears that he was making the same appeal as Jesus of Nazareth, who admonished, “Those who seek to save their lives will lose them, and those who lose their lives for the sake of [the planet] will save them.” Essentially, both movement founders are saying the same thing. Salvation is not an individual matter.
2013
Where Is Home? A Revolution in Our Personal Lives
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Harriet Fraad reviews books by Eric Klinenberg, Arlie Russell Hochschild, Hannah Rosin, and Charles Murray.
2013
Intersectional Politics: Recovering Our Interdependent Wholeness
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In today’s world, our lives are systematically fragmented and our relationships are transactional. When we try to put the pieces back together, we call it an intersectional analysis. However, the heart of the matter involves more than identifying intersections between different forms of oppression: it involves healing a broken vision and recovering our wholeness.