Theological Wandering in the Cosmic Home, World Parliament of Religion, Salt Lake City, October 2015 James. " Five Things You Didn't Know about Jesus." CNN: Finding Jesus. April 13, 2017. Accessed: June 24, 2019. Theological Reflections on ‘Sisters in the Troubles’- Nuns in Northern Ireland, Religion[s] & Power[s] Conference, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania, October 2017. Introducing Feminist Theology, Co-author Dorothea McEwan [Warburg Institute], Sheffield Academic Press; 1993; 2nd Edition, 2001 Forging Voices: Exploring gender, race & theology through conversations with pioneering feminist & womanist scholars in religion. [One of the 11 women included.] Director Kate Common- U Tube 2018/2020

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Gifts Under Gunfire: A Feminist Use of Scripture in Theologians on Scripture, ed Angus Paddison, T&T Clark, 2016 The Sexual Theologian: Essays on Sex, God & Politics, Co-editor Marcella Althaus-Reid [University of Edinburgh], T&T Clark, 2005 The Challenge of Preaching the Gospel, Co-editor Janet Wootton [Congregational Federation], ITP Publications, 2013 If Bodies Matter is the Trinity Embodied Enough? A Case for Fleshy Christology in Transforming Exclusion, ed Hannah Bacon, T&T Clark, 2011Christianity: Queer Pasts, Queer Futures? Pat Reif Memorial Lecture, Claremont Graduate University, California, October 2014 BBC World Service. Documentary from research in Northern Ireland ‘Sisters of the Troubles’, March 2019. Shortlisted for BBC Religious Broadcasting Award & the Sandford St Martin Award. Better to struggle claustrophobically from the grasp of an overly adoring parent than to fall serially in love with emotionally cruel or distant partners, which is what everyone with underly adoring parents always does. (And if you are currently hissing: “Underly is not a word!” then I don’t care, because my dad told me I was good at words, so I believe that I am, so screw you.) Liberating Christ: Exploring the Christologies of Contemporary Liberation Movements, Pilgrim Press, 1999 An A-Z of Feminist Theology, Co-editor Dorothea McEwan [Warburg Institute], Sheffield Academic Press: 1996. Bloomsbury Academic Collections, 2015

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The Cultural History of Women in Christianity, General Editor, Routledge with Rosemary Radford Ruether [Claremont] & Megan Clay [UWTSD], 2012-2021. The series will include six volumes all containing ten articles of 10,000 words. Gender as a Category of Knowledge, Fundamentalism and Gender, Humboldt University, Berlin, December 2010 [unable to attend due to illness but paper sent and read] What does it mean to yourself to start being one with them? And isn’t that a challenge sometimes?” she asks. In how the church presents something like a fat body, she notes the message can be anything but welcoming. “There’s the prophetic spiritual warning not to become that.” C. Stephens. The Historical Christ & The Jesus of Faith: The Incarnational Narrative as History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.Women, Suffering and the Body of Christ in And God Will Wipe Away All Tears From Their Eyes: A Theological Approach to the Suffering and Hope of Women, Institut Drustvenih Znanosti Ivo Pilar, Croatia, 2013 Scholars note that there were two solar eclipses around the time of Jesus' death: one in 29 AD, and one in 33 AD. The Christian Gospels state that the skies darkened after the crucifixion, which suggests that his death coincided with one of these eclipses. [6] It's little wonder then that Christian morality is heavily invested in the tight regulation of bodies, especially female bodies, which are round, moulding, soft, changing, interactive and antithetical to the phallic-symbolic. Fat is so often associated with immorality; a thin body is a disciplined body, and by implication, a disciplined mind. Eve’s desire for the fruit ‘was a kind of gluttony’, says feminist theologian Professor Lisa Isherwood of the University of Winchester in the UK, because ‘she’d been told she could have everything else, but not that’. Eve’s unwillingness to accept boundaries can be seen as a fundamental problem in Christian theology. Perhaps more importantly, it’s the seductive effect of her appetite on Adam that’s considered unsettling.

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For achieving such a communal conversation, Wilkinson lifts up the example of the large family gathered for dinner—loud, chaotic, sometimes arguing, often laughing, and sharing stories. “Itleads to the dialogue and the understanding of what we do at the table,” he says. By contrast, he notes that a culture defined by the rugged individual—whether feeling isolated in their spiritual practice or getting fast food alone after their shift—doesn’t have this dialogue. Gerard. The Crucifixion of Jesus: History, Myth, Faith. Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 1995. Rationality, objectivity, rigidity, uprightness, efficiency, discipline and competitiveness are all values we strive for. They are all aspects of what’s called the phallic-symbolic, to borrow a key idea from French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. The multiple symbolic importance of food in Christian history has, Isherwood notes, been underrated and under-researched, and as a result we may not always recognise the extent to which theological themes play themselves out in the ostensibly “secular” worlds of food marketing, the diet industry and discussions of obesity and anorexia.

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Body, Trauma and the Re-Embracing of Life at Asociacion de Teologas Espanolas, University of Madrid, November, 2021. As Director of the Institute of Theological Partnerships at University of Winchester I organised 3-5 conferences a year. Do we have the capacity to imagine [Jesus] in an imperfect body? Because he was human,” Oakes asks. Cuerpo, trauma y vida nuevamente acogida',in Genealogias deltrauma. Cuerpos abusados, memorias reconciliadas, ed Mireia Vidal i Quintero, Estell, Verbo Divino, 2022. Some scholars note that Jesus did not want to die. In the Garden of Gethsemane, he says, "Remove this cup from me" and, "My soul is sorrowful even unto death." [4]

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Why can’t we see Jesus in that body?” she asks. After all, Jesus was a man of color who died an unjust, shameful, and public death at the hands of the state. But rather than citing this connection, Oakes cites the attitude of commentators who said that Floyd would have died anyway because of his weight, an example that manages to blend racism, fatphobia, and ableism.Worship is an act of prayer and of physical response. . . . Christianity is all about being uncomfortable.” Emily. " Did a Solar Eclipse Darken the Skies during Jesus’ Crucifixion?" Salt Lake Tribune, August 19, 2017. Accessed: June 24, 2019. Wrestling with God: The Yearbook of ESWTR, Co-Editors Jenny Daggers, Elaine Bellchambers, Christina Gasser, Peeters, 2010