The following is a guest post written by Renny Golden, Professor Emerita, Northeastern Illinois University.
The Chispa* Carrier: Rosemary Radford Ruether by Renny Golden
What kind of voice is breaking silence, and what kind of silence is being broken? Adrienne Rich
She came to prison with hidden keys. The way forward,
she said, is behind us. With only a spoon of history she
gutted a tunnel that ran below the plazas of Prince after Prince.
We sat waiting behind bars: mouldy histories, slop theologies
in mush bowls shoved under cell doors. Eat this or starve.
We prayed for deliverance we could not name.
We imagined her walking through deserts, our prophet
searching the sand for bones, pouring through ancient scripts,
gospels, archeologies, the dank stacks of basement libraries,
reliquaries with their throb of real blood, archives.
We rattled the bars with questions: Can she pick locks? Continue reading “The Chispa* Carrier: Rosemary Radford Ruether By Renny Golden”
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