stories that connect

The story of a woman who grew up secure in her faith.  Until, at 15, her mother died.  At her greatest moment of spiritual need, she learned of her faith's harsh injustice to women,  personally experiencing its humiliating effects.  Deeply felt, this journey completes a circle from her sure connection to faith, then firmly rejecting it and, finally, years finding its gentle emb...

An excerpt: "Born to a black middle-class Catholic family in Dayton, Ohio, Olivia was told from childhood, 'You are a child of God - you have as much right to be on Earth as anyone else.' Her father, a pharmacist, led demonstrations demanding that black people be allowed to go to the schools of their choice..." Dr. Olivia Cousins is a mentor and a mother; a professor and a community ac...

I have been an ordained Christian pastor for 30 years. I have been a feminist even longer. I have always had a love-hate relationship with my church. From the Crusades to the Inquisition to the colonization of the Americas and the destruction of indigenous people from the witch trials to the denial of reproductive choice by some and the homophobia enflamed by wreckless rhetoric among many evangeli...