stories that connect

Today's guest blogger, Chelsea Guenther, is a junior at Agnes Scott College majoring in religious studies with a concentration in social justice. She spent the summer interning at Interfaith Youth Core and is sad to be leaving so soon. I am a Christian woman. In some denominations within my religious tradition, that fact would limit me. Despite my gifts and the call I feel from God to make my ...

Helen LaKelly Hunt, Ph.D., has had a ringside seat at NOW, the Ms. Foundation, and other hot-button women's groups for thirty years. She is founder and president of The Sister Fund, a major contributor to women's causes. Hunt earned her Ph.D. at New York's Union Theolog...

The story of a woman who grew up secure in her faith.  Until, at 15, her mother died.  At her greatest moment of spiritual need, she learned of her faith's harsh injustice to women,  personally experiencing its humiliating effects.  Deeply felt, this journey completes a circle from her sure connection to faith, then firmly rejecting it and, finally, years finding its gentle emb...

I have been an ordained Christian pastor for 30 years. I have been a feminist even longer. I have always had a love-hate relationship with my church. From the Crusades to the Inquisition to the colonization of the Americas and the destruction of indigenous people from the witch trials to the denial of reproductive choice by some and the homophobia enflamed by wreckless rhetoric among many evangeli...

An excerpt: "Born to a black middle-class Catholic family in Dayton, Ohio, Olivia was told from childhood, 'You are a child of God - you have as much right to be on Earth as anyone else.' Her father, a pharmacist, led demonstrations demanding that black people be allowed to go to the schools of their choice..." Dr. Olivia Cousins is a mentor and a mother; a professor and a community ac...