Each year in 28 African countries two million girls undergo what is euphemistically called “female circumcision,” but what is really mutilation and excision of the female external genitalia and clitoris (clitorectomy). “One quarter of them die as a result.” [Daughers of Hope by Kay Marshall Strom and Michele Rickett, p. 12]
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Ho, ho! The Feminist Mormon Housewives blog has finally taken up the subject of sex in Mormon families in a posting called Sex Talk. Comments approaching 250.
Believers in Christian manhood and womanhood would like us all to believe that there is something about masculinity as it is lived out in America that is crucial to Christianity. What it means to be masculine, however, varies from culture to culture, and has no business being inserted into Christian theology. There are […]
Not as many people know Frank Schaeffer as knew his father, Francis, the early Christian Right apologist, but he’s apparently well enough known in evangelical circles to get hate mail from them. I’ve been quite taken with two of his novels, Portofino, and Zermatt. They, along with Saving Grandma, are the ongoing saga […]
How this CBE workshop stirred up memories of situations I have observed throughout my life time! My father became a pastor because the pastor in the liturgical church of his childhood failed to answer the pleas for help he posed regarding the terrifying tangle of incest ensnaring his brothers and sisters, and instigated by […]
Medine Moussounga Keener’s workshop, “The African Women’s Struggle”
Medine’s personal story of life in Congo, Africa, was quite moving. She spoke from her personal experience and the experience of her friends and family.
Topics Medine covered in her workshop included women’s health, domestic abuse, sexual abuse, and the devastation of war. She described how governmental corruption, war […]