I first heard the term “restorative justice” in a class with Dr. Douglas Campbell at Duke Divinity School about 2 years ago. It was not something that we spent a large amount of time discussing, but it was enough to…
Logia will focus our next blog series on hearing from women in the divinity disciplines in the Southern Hemisphere. Our contributors will speak about their own research, as well as some of their stories for why they…
In my experience as a wife, mother, academic, and leader, a number of interrelated battles confront me. One such battle ground is restlessness. I catch myself almost running from within and sometimes physically too.…
IN SEARCH OF SHALOM It is difficult to write about shalom When the blood of our Black brothers and sisters cries out from the ground for justice; When mothers have lost their sons and daughters to the violence of white…
Christa McKirland, Logia’s Centre Director, launched this series with a blog post in September 2019 in which she mentioned, ‘to be a woman and to be a woman of colour meant that you already had “two strikes” against…
Trauma is an overused and misunderstood concept. On the one hand, it seems obvious enough that we live now more than ever in a trauma-aware society. One war veteran puts it this way in his biography The Evil Hours:…
Perhaps like so many academics, especially women of color, I often feel like a misfit, like someone whose story always seems a little out of joint with the stories of others around her. In the case of biblical studies,…
Polidoro da Caravaggio, The Holy Family with Saint Elizabeth and the Infant John the Baptist, 1520–25. “Today I have to write this blog-post,” I think as I stand in my bathroom getting ready for a new day in…
If you told me two years ago that I would be boarding a plane with my husband and a one-year-old baby daughter so that I could pursue further theological studies in Scotland, I would have laughed in your face. Our move…
Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? If anyone destroys (φθείρει) God’s temple, God will destroy (φθερεῖ) that person. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple (NRSV).…
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