minister, author, teacher, chaplain
My sons grew up in the days of feminist consciousness raising and Marlo Thomas’ “Free to Be, You and Me” songs and stories. My consciousness was being raised about gender discrimination, and I rallied for the Equal Rights Amendment. The messages about gender roles my boys got from the culture were a little better than […]
Growing up in the Baptist tradition, I learned from memory the hymn “He Lives.” I loved singing this hymn to a lilting tune, increasing in volume along with everyone in the congregation as we came to the refrain after each stanza: “He lives, He lives, Christ Jesus lives today! You ask me how I know […]
She Lives! Sophia Wisdom Works in the World just came out! Here are excerpts from a review essay that Letha Dawson Scanzoni wrote for Christian Feminism Today. “A few weeks ago, a taxi driver told me how much he had enjoyed watching astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson’s 2014 television series, “Cosmos.” “But I can’t believe […]
She Lives! Sophia Wisdom Works in the World has recently come out. This book includes fascinating narratives of laypeople and clergy who are changing the institutional church and society by reclaiming biblical female divine names and images in Christian theology and worship. Their stories reveal the connection between including multicultural female divine images in worship and […]
My new book, She Lives! Sophia Wisdom Works in the World, will come out at the end of September. This book presents inspiring stories of clergy and laypeople bringing transformation through restoring the power of Divine Wisdom and other biblical female divine images to Christian theology and worship. These stories reveal the connection between including […]