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January 2024
cry rooms
Continuing on from where I left off with my story of nursing my firstborn in church: It so happened that our church at the time, remodeling their…
Jan 6
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December 2023
nursing in church
Every few months, it seems, the X-fka-Twitter discourse regarding nursing in public resurfaces. “Prudes!” “Exhibitionists!” “Lactivists!” The highly…
Dec 30, 2023
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Some links, and an update
It’s been nearly a year since the birth of my second child, which gave me my second experiential data point on the postpartum period. When, several…
Dec 23, 2023
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May 2023
a musical interlude
This is a little different from the kinds of things I usually share here, but I recently came across two songs that readers might appreciate. First…
May 6, 2023
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March 2023
Book Blurbs 4
Maternal Body Who wrote it? Carrie Frederick Frost, a professor of theology at St. Sophia Ukrainian Orthodox Seminary What’s it about? The subtitle is…
Mar 9, 2023
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January 2023
maternity leave
No, I’m not writing a post philosophizing about the spiritual implications of maternity leave. I’m going on maternity leave myself! Our family is…
Jan 1, 2023
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December 2022
"You humbly chose the Virgin's womb"
It’s always a good time to meditate on the Incarnation, but today—Christmas Day, when I’ve scheduled this newsletter to post—is an especially fitting…
Dec 25, 2022
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hospitality for babies
As I’m consistently reminded by the discussions on Other Feminisms, practicing hospitable to the most vulnerable among us, to those with the most…
Dec 21, 2022
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November 2022
the churching of women: belief and practice
Throughout my reading on the churching of women, I’ve noticed a frequent theme of the tension between (stated) belief and practice. It seems to me that…
Nov 26, 2022
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the churching of women: bibliography
Call me a nerd (you wouldn’t be wrong), but it’s been absolutely fascinating for me to do a deep dive into the literature on churching I’ve been able to…
Nov 14, 2022
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the churching of women: new directions
As we’ve noted, the churching of women is rarely practiced today. In some traditions it’s been superseded by a more general thanksgiving for the…
Nov 7, 2022
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