Dr. Jacqueline Bussie is the Director of the Forum on Faith and Life and Associate Professor of Religion at Concordia College in Moorhead, MN.
Review: Transformative Lutheran Theologies: Feminist, Womanist, and Mujerista Perspectives (Fortress Press, 2010)
November/December 2012 (Volume 12 Issue 6)
[This review is adapted, with permission, from a review of this book previously published in Trinity Seminary Review.] [1] In this first-ever volume of its kind, edited by Mary J. Streufert, ELCA Director for Justice for Women, the voices of sixteen well-known Lutheran women theologians from different racial, ethnic, and sexual-orientation backgrounds emerge, rise, and […]
To Tell or Not to Tell?: Autobiography and its Role in Theology in “Theologians In Their Own Words”
December 2013: Immigration (Volume 13 Issue 8)
(Review: Theologians in Their Own Words. Edited by Derek R. Nelson, Joshua M Moritz, and Ted Peters.) [1] Teacher, social activist and womanist author bell hooks writes, “When professors bring narratives of their experiences into classroom discussions it eliminates the possibility that we can function as all-knowing, silent interrogators. It is often productive if professors […]
Scarred Epistemologies: What a Theology of the Cross Has to Say about the Gay Marriage Ban
October 2005 (Volume 5 Issue 10)
[1] I live and teach religion and ethics in Ohio, one of the eleven states in the 2004 election that passed constitutional amendments effectively precluding any legal and civil recognition or institution of gay marriage. The passage of this state amendment dubbed colloquially as the ‘ban on gay marriage’ generated much local controversy within my […]