Appreciation: Weeks before a stroke silenced Rosemary Radford Ruether in 2016, she invited me to listen to a presentation of her doctoral students' final class presentations. Her legacy was apparent in their work.
Movie review: "Moxie" does try to have a conversation about white privilege and the obliviousness of past generations of feminists, and there are charming performances here, but in 2021, we don't need such a film.
Commentary: It is not enough for a woman to claim a seat at the table. She needs to work, as Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg did, for other women to be given places as well. And Barrett has not done this.
Movie review: In the best live-action film to come from Disney in a very long time, the juxtaposition between adversaries Mulan and Xianniang, both women hiding their identity, is one of the high points.
Grace at the Margins: It's rare that a paper at an academic conference is received like a hit song at a rock concert. But such was the case at the Catholic Theological Society of America's 74th annual convention.
Grace on the Margins: Pope Benedict XVI's letter achieves something he likely did not intend: He demonstrates precisely how the institutional church got into its current psychosexual mess.
Book Review: The author demonstrates how the tired tropes of women's self-sacrifice that reinforce oppression and expectations of martyrdom can be expanded and refreshed realistically in light of contemporary women's lives. On balance, every woman's self-sacrifice is not oppressive and every form of oppression is not caused by women's self-sacrifice.
Grace on the Margins: If a woman like Scaraffia isn't going to take it anymore and is emboldened enough to storm out and take her team with her, the Vatican had better start paying attention.
