Learning to Live Authentically in Our Families and Communities
Embrace the Queerness of your family, take ownership of your journey, and use your voice to bring light to your communities. When Nia Chiaramonte came out as a trans woman to her wife Katie, she knew she would be met with a loving response. But she was less sure where this would leave their relationship, their marriage, and their family. Even ......
Liberating Feminine Wisdom from Christian Patriarchy
Untangle from patriarchal Christian attitudes toward women, and tap into the deep well of feminine wisdom. Christian patriarchy teaches that women are dangerous, manipulative, and untrustworthy. Whether painting women as the archetypal old witch in the woods or the biblical temptress, toxic religion vilifies their wisdom and uses fear to ......
Shows how religious traditions emerge from and converge on a divine nature and mystic quality that creates a loving heart. The author describes this phenomenon in her own experience and elaborates on that mystical core, the notion of the divine, the shape of interreligious dialogue, and the personal, spiritual, and ethical challenges it poses.
All for inclusion, and inclusion for all! Emma is going to her first summer camp, and she is so excited! Camp Waterfall is an accessible camp, which means that Emma, Charley, and a host of new friends with different abilities can all participate, with nobody feeling left out or getting left behind. But will Emma really be ready to meet all the ......
Assesses the achievements and legacies of thirty-one theological giants in light of Christianity's engagement with imperial power, conquest, colonization, and post colonial themes. This is a textbook anthology suitable for classroom use.
Couples can make significant progress toward resolving their own problems when they receive appropriate guidance from a caring person. This book outlines five tasks focused on identity, agency, and meaning that spiritual caregivers can use to empower couples for significant change in just three to five conversations. Critically integrating desert ......
In Transforming Vision (2011), the author drew from decades of pioneering scholarship to offer the contours of a critical feminist hermeneutic. The chapters in Changing Horizons (2013) sketched out a theory of liberation. In this book, the author charts her own personal and professional history.
Cheryl Sanders here sharpens the agenda of black liberation by offering both a fresh reading of historical black religion and a distinctive approach to Christian ethics. Arguing that the experience of oppression has been the catalyst for black moral life and thought, Sanders traces several paths or approaches that African American Christians have ......
Elaborating a Mujerista Theology, Tenth-Anniversary Edition
Ten years ago En la Lucha offered the first systematic presentation of mujerista theology - the liberating religious reflection of Hispanic women - giving voice to the everyday struggles and insights of Hispanic women and offering a new form of contextual theology. Since that time, Isasi-Daz's work has been widely praised, studied, and emulated ......