Injustice, Hope, and the Plight of African Women
The softest whisper carries great power. I’ll never forget the way my Grandmother used to draw me close to her, place her mouth up against my ear and whisper in her delicate voice: “Reagan, you are my...
View ArticleViolence Against Women and Girls in Northern Uganda
I have been known to shed my share of tears over stories of human suffering, to ache for the voiceless victims whose eyes stare out at me from the pages of human interest stories. The story of the...
View ArticleSpirituality and Leadership in Action: Women Leaders Fighting HIV/AIDS in Kenya
Women the world over have been under-represented in leadership be it in educational administration, business and industry, and political arenas (Bass, 1990; Uraizee, 2000; Weiss, 1999). This phenomenon...
View ArticleRacism, Art, and the Darkness of Truth: An Interview with Barry Moser
In this interview, artist Barry Moser discusses racism, religion, and working amidst mystery.
View ArticleStill Thirsty: After the Election, Belair, Haiti
A poem inspired by a photograph taken in Haiti, five days after the 2006 election of Rene Preval.
View ArticleSleeping with Peaches: An Interview with Painter Lee Price
Lee Price is a figurative painter from New York. She has been painting women and food for over twenty years and continues to address the intersections of food with body image, addiction, and unabating...
View ArticleTo Love Oneself Through Food: Geneen Roth and a Christian Resistance to...
Elizabeth Antus argues that an engagement with the work of best-selling author Geneen Roth enables Christians, especially women, to articulate resistance to the body-hating cycle of dieting and...
View ArticleThis Cursed Womb
This essay explores the space between the physical and the spiritual where the Eden curse still interferes and casts a visceral darkness over women today.
View ArticleOde to My Grandmother’s Missing Arm
In this poem by Rebecca Lauren, a granddaughter recalls a missing family member.
View ArticlePantyhose, Abstinence, and Fear: Constructions of Sexual Identity among...
This article discusses the purity culture of the Southern Baptist Church and its potential ramifications upon women’s self-identifying sexuality.
View ArticleSpirituality and Leadership in Action: Women Leaders Fighting HIV/AIDS in Kenya
Women the world over have been under-represented in leadership be it in educational administration, business and industry, and political arenas (Bass, 1990; Uraizee, 2000; Weiss, 1999). This phenomenon...
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Racism, Art, and the Darkness of Truth: An Interview with Barry Moser
Among his over three hundred works of art, Barry Moser has often pushed the envelope of expectation to portray unorthodox perspectives and uncomfortable subject matter. He is also the first artist to...
View ArticleStill Thirsty: After the Election, Belair, Haiti
February 12, 2006 women and children encircled the broken pipe tongues depressed dry buds colored carmine licked libations from the spout intoxicated bellies with sustenance Five days after the...
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Sleeping with Peaches: An Interview with Painter Lee Price
Lee Price is a figurative painter from New York. She has been painting women and food for over twenty years and continues to address the intersections of food with body image, addiction, and unabating...
View ArticleTo Love Oneself Through Food: Geneen Roth and a Christian Resistance to...
As they strive for slenderness, many women in the United States express lifelong frustration with food and their own bodies. Every reader of this piece, if she herself does not experience frustration...
View ArticleThis Cursed Womb
The hour comes at darkness. Long before the sun rises beneath the horizon’s black curtain, the first pain strikes in my abdomen. It squeezes my insides, wrapping my organs tighter and tighter. The pain...
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Ode to My Grandmother’s Missing Arm
O Beautiful, Empty Placeholder in faded photographs regal you balance long cigarettes between your fingers like Greta Garbo but you were not there to lift my mother’s veil from her eyes or tie her...
View ArticlePantyhose, Abstinence, and Fear: Constructions of Sexual Identity among...
In the summer of 2011, I interviewed four women between the ages of twenty-six and thirty-two who were raised in the Southern Baptist Church (SBC) and have since left that church or religion all...
View ArticleHunger
The late afternoon sun beat down on my back—it was hotter than one might expect for June in Minnesota, where I was spending the summer as a visiting scholar at St. Olaf College. Sweat soaked through...
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Sing More Like a Girl
The Awful Rowing EP by Hardworker Image courtesy of Jennifer Jane Photography. I’ve spent a lot of time watching men’s mouths. Matching vowel shapes. Anticipating the intake of breath and the clip of...
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