Good Friday marks the second anniversary of one of the most significant dates in my life – the adoption of my daughter, Baby S – who by the way is no longer a baby (she will be turning 5 this… Read More ›
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Having it All or Embracing What We Have? by Gina Messina-Dysert
Like thousands of other mothers, I found myself consumed by Anne-Marie Slaughter’s 13,000 word cover story, “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All” for the July/August edition of The Atlantic. As a new mom with a Ph.D. and growing career,… Read More ›
A Family Conceived, Lost, and Resurrected by Gina Messina-Dysert
As I had written about in a previous post, my husband and I had a very long struggle with infertility. After nine years, multiple failed rounds of infertility treatments, and much heartache, we decided to look at alternative options to… Read More ›
Robbed by Monica A. Coleman
“Life is robbery.” I re-read this Alfred North Whiteheadquotation to my students in the last weeks as we read through Adventures of Ideas. We were taking a welcome break from the philosophically demanding Process and Reality. I explained that this is one of… Read More ›
The Barren Woman Bible By Monica A. Coleman
As I mourn the loss of my miscarried babies, it’s easy to see that the Bible’s stories of barren women were written by men. I know that men wrote the Bible. That’s no surprise to anyone who has had a… Read More ›
I’m Back and Writing About Loss By Monica A. Coleman
The following is a guest post written by Monica A. Coleman, Ph.D., scholar and activist committed to connecting faith and social justice. An ordained elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, Coleman has earned degrees at Harvard University, Vanderbilt University… Read More ›
“Now Sarah, Abraham’s wife, bore him no children”: On Experiencing Infertility By Gina Messina-Dysert
Gen 16: 1 reads “Now Sarah, Abraham’s wife, bore him no children.” The simplicity of this statement fails to communicate the complicated and devastating situation Sarah faced. The woman who became the matriarch of the Judeo-Christian tradition was barren, unable… Read More ›
