It’s not possible to parent without experiencing risk, weakness, pain, and transformation.
vulnerability
What does the cross mean for people with disabilities?
David McLachlan proposes a participatory atonement in which God engages creation’s contingency and vulnerability.
The Sunday I decided to tell the truth about my miscarriage.
I wish we actually valued his dangerous work.
It always has been—because vulnerability is part of creation.
It makes me uncomfortable. That’s by design.
Such values have shadow sides. They are also desperately needed in the world.
Disability and the good life
Theologian Shane Clifton rethinks virtue ethics from his wheelchair.
I posed this question to the students in my sexual ethics class.
Who I'd invite to my writers' dinner party
Do women have to trade intimacy for trust in ways that men do not? If we do, should we stop? Are we playing into stereotypes? Are we inviting people to take us less seriously?
The mystery of the beautiful
How can God speak through what is soft and breakable? How can we?
God in weakness
Elizabeth Gandolfo's first book is not just an anthropology. Its more daring and abidingly important gift is a statement about God.
Isaiah doesn't politely, abstractly compare God to a mother giving birth. The text suggests that God squats and pants and bellows like a moose.
Open to transformation
Kristine A. Culp has produced a sophisticated, original and timely work of constructive theology. It also happens to be a great story—even a page-turner.