@edunar@scholar.social I think it is actually a form of privilege for people to be able to treat spirituality like consumer goofs they can pick and choose. Usually they are affluent upper middle-class people who rarely experience daunting hardship in life.

The thesis archive of now-defunct Marylhurst University is still online... pretty good collection of theses, primarily in theology, social science, social work, art therapy, art history.

http://digital.collection.marylhurst.edu/cdm/search/collection/p15184coll1

Hopefully a high speed Internet line will arrive this week! It's been too long.

Why I am “religious, not spiritual” – https://amaranthineabbey.wordpress.com/2018/11/26/why-i-am-religious-not-spiritual/

Nonbinary language in Hebrew https://docs.google.com/document/d/1V0oG9_If3__Y0BRWFrSpA5j9pVVpRiqKlFouaccbklM/mobilebasic

A cautionary tale: Academic grievance studies and the corruption of scholarship https://areomagazine.com/2018/10/02/academic-grievance-studies-and-the-corruption-of-scholarship/

VICE: What is the future of Evangelicalism? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MG_l0-IJ_BQ

How American Protestant missionaries helped usher in post-Protestant America http://www.christiancentury.org/review/books/how-american-protestant-missionaries-helped-usher-post-protestant-america

Sadly, the #Marylhurst University is closing its doors for good this month, and today was the last day its Shoen Library was open. It was a great source of theological materials. For now the Marylhurst Digital Collection is still online. It seems that the university is shutting down all its digital presence in two weeks, so download theses and papers now when you can. http://library.marylhurst.edu

Breaking free from sisterhood: creating a liberatory movement space for non-binary queer femmes
https://limeadestandworks.com/amaranth-blog/index.php?controller=post&action=view&id_post=13 #femmetheory #queertheory

Theology, thealogy, the@logy, thexlogy: limits of metaphors https://limeadestandworks.com/amaranth-blog/index.php?controller=post&action=view&id_post=8 #theology #feministtheology #goddess

If you haven't yet, watch Netflix's movie "Come Sunday" - a biopic of Bishop Carlton D. Pearson that spans from 1996 to 2004 - a story that illustrates how faith isn't as immutable as what many preachers would have you believe, but is something that is always evolving.

This topic reminds me of the late Carl Sagan's movie "Contact" (starring Jody Foster)

What's a Greater Leap of Faith: God or the Multiverse? https://www.prageru.com/videos/whats-greater-leap-faith-god-or-multiverse#.Wt6ImZKpnIM.twitter

Immaculate consumption: Negotiating the sex symbol in postfeminist celebrity culture (PDF Download Available) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/235409070_Immaculate_consumption_Negotiating_the_sex_symbol_in_postfeminist_celebrity_culture

Hi! I've decided to bring @willow@scholar.social back to the Pacific Northwest along with my other accounts.

This is a dedicated account to update on my path toward the M.Div. and all the work that goes into it, plus some random topics at the nexus of current topics and theology.

My research interests: history of female leadership and evolution of its theology and praxis in the U.S.