At the women’s conference in February, the importance of talking in person about complex and personal issues struck me in a new way. Close to 200 women gathered at the All You Need is Love: Honoring the Diversity of Women’s Voices in Theology conference in Leesburg, Va., Feb. 20-22. Several powerful themes emerged: women’s bodies, self-love, and racial and sexual identity …
On my first day at my new job, my husband and I were hustling to get out the door, since we were also going to do the dance of car sharing so that we could get our state inspections taken care of. Wrangling two small children, winter gear and the bags of stuff I was taking in to my office had pushed us about 10 minutes behind my schedule …