Published at Women in Higher Education in April 2016. I can manage my body to improve how I feel, but I still live in a patriarchy. What frustrated me the most about Presence is the emphasis on changing the self but ignoring the culture that creates our senses of self. Feeling better doesn’t eliminate persistent gender bias, […]
Published at Sacred Matters on April 12, 2016. By wearing white robes under the light of the fiery cross, the 1920s Klan hoped to save America. Robes and crosses materialized their hope. Yet, the fiery cross and robes did not offer comfort or assurance to the Klan’s victims. They only found fear and terror, not religious symbolism […]
Published at Chronicle Vitae on April 14, 2016. You leave not with a grand exit — a clear resolution to the problem of contingent labor in religious studies — but with repeated sighs of frustration (and private rants to your beleaguered partner). Your exit from the task force you were asked to lead in your disciplinary society […]
Published at Sacred Matters on March 16, 2016. Faithful readers also receive comfort in the knowledge that accepting of Jesus as lord and savior will spare you from the apocalypse. The Rapture will ferry you away from the fallen world. The rest of us will be left behind to its horror and torment. Interpreting the signs grants […]
Published at The Atlantic on March 12, 2016. Trump’s “Make America great again” language is just like the rhetoric of the Klan, with their emphasis on virulent patriotism and restrictive immigration. But maybe Trump doesn’t know much about the second incarnation of the order and what Klansmen and Klanswomen stood for. Maybe the echoes are coincidence, […]
Published at Chronicle Vitae on March 8, 2016. In short, I would be both the recommender and the recommended. That turn of events left me unsettled. For a moment, I felt simultaneously ancient and young. After all, my student was at the beginning of a potential career, and I am still trying to figure out what I […]