I’ve been thinking about willful women and feminist killjoys—two main guiding images in feminist scholar Sara Ahmed’s book Living a Feminist Life (Duke University Press 2017). The idea of the willful woman (or willful girl, or willful person) is something I can...

John Gee, Public Square Even the best of motives do not allow us to change the commandments or remove the crosses of others. Source link

The ProPublica story includes, as noted earlier, a nod to the Christian roots of the hospice movement. Here is that passage, which is long, but essential:The philosophy of hospice was imported to the United States in the 1960s by Dame Cicely Saunders, an...

(RNS) — As a deadline nears for new lawsuits in sexual abuse cases, 66 Catholic clergy and religious accused of sexual abuse have been identified in 116 lawsuits filed in Northern California. Of those, 14 have been publicly identified for the first time. These...

Meador, MO Some time after his death, an editor was going through the papers and books in J. R. R. Tolkien's library when he came across an old copy of C. S. Lewis's pamphlet "Christian... Source link