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On Being Timeless

I believe the only way to harness time is by linking ourselves to something eternal.

  • 08/24/2021
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Re-Imagining the Role of Women in Religion

“We need to demonstrate that it’s not an oxymoron to be a Christian feminist,” said one of the conference organizers.

  • 12/25/2020
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The Women of Seminary

I might be the first Buddhist program director at a Christian seminary. After I wrote an article in 2016 about

  • 11/26/2019
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Changing My Religion

LGBTQ+ content is made possible by Ellie Krug For many years I have been a part of a Unitarian Universalist church community deeply

  • 12/01/2018

Giving sanctuary

Weighing the consequences and risks, many church communities in Minnesota choose to take a stand. “God is not a God who would endorse hate. God is not a God who would endorse separation of families. God says quite the opposite – welcoming the stranger, loving the foreigner, treating them as one of your own.” – JaNae Bates

  • 06/01/2017

Being small

Whether we choose the path of faith, skepticism, or a uniquely understood spiritual connection to all the atoms in the universe, we must treat each other gently, as if we were specks of dust – because we are.

  • 02/01/2017

Re-Imagining: Revisited and revived

Gathering the stories of a historic conference – and keeping the spirit moving

  • 03/01/2016

Betty McKenzie: locked up for peace

The activist nun put her beliefs on the line, even if it meant going to jail. “I learned a lot in prison. For one thing, the people there are absolutely normal. I can only think of one who seemed like a criminal to me.”

  • 02/02/2014

VII womenpriests

“[The Catholic Church] “is a dysfunctional family, but it’s still my family.”

  • 08/02/2012

Faith & Feminism

“Certainly there have been feminists who view Christianity as so inherently patriarchal that it should be rejected or completely reconfigured.”

  • 12/02/2008

‘Our hip, cool nun’

It would be 57 years before Sister Justina found out her birth name and learned why her mother abandoned her in a basket outside an orphanage.

  • 10/02/2008