When the world is in travail, God sends a mother. In 1531 the Mexican peoples languished in the ashes of the Aztec Empire. Once-strong warriors slumped in servitude to their new Spanish overlords. Local women were frequently raped by the conquistadors during the warring years and bore children without fathers. Those mixed children struggled to […]
The First Incarnational Theologians Were Women
by December 23, 2019 Leave a Comment
on “Hail, O favored one, the Lord is with you!” The Angel startled Mary. Her prayers cracked open with the unexpected visit. Her mind swirled with the greeting of high honor. No one, not even Joseph, called her ‘favored one.’ She forced herself to focus as the angel kept speaking. “The Holy Spirit will come upon […]
Why I Keep Returning To Palestine
by October 23, 2019 Leave a Comment
on Why do I keep returning to Palestine? Why, for the third year in a row, do I pack and board planes and change dollars into shekels? Why do I keep coming back to this place, and not Zanzibar or Paris or Morocco? I remember a conversation I had once with the then-U.S. ambassador to Burundi […]