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Jul 12, 2024 | 
firstthings.com | Abigail Rine Favale
Who’s Afraid of Gender? by judith butlerfarrar, straus and giroux, 320 pages, $30
Judith Butler’s status in the world of gender studies is nothing short of legendary. If philosophy can be considered a series of footnotes to Plato, gender studies is a series of footnotes to Butler. Her first book, Gender Trouble, hit the scene in 1990 and became a feminist classic, reshaping the conversation about gender in the academy and, arguably, the wider society.
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Jun 4, 2024 | 
1517.org | Susanna Søberg |Erik Larson |Abigail Rine Favale |Michael Frolic
Scott Keith, 1517 Executive DirectorThe Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic on Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt (2023)Haidt discusses the ways in which our current obsession with social media may in fact be causing an “anxiety crisis” among America’s youth and young adult population. A must-read for parents navigating the ever-deepening complexities of our digital age.
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Feb 5, 2024 | 
churchlifejournal.nd.edu | Peter Adamson |Abigail Rine Favale
In 1767 in my hometown of Boston, a poet named Phillis Wheatley published a volume of her verses. For a woman to publish anything at this time was unusual: Wheatley was only the fifth to do so in the American colonies. But for someone like Wheatley to appear in print was unheard of. She was an enslaved African, kidnapped as a child and transported to America only six years previously, in 1761.
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Jan 11, 2024 | 
churchlifejournal.nd.edu | Abigail Rine Favale
Everyone is talking about gender. But what, exactly, is being said? Is gender a synonym for sex? Is gender the culturally constructed norms and expressions of sex? Is gender an innate sense of one’s sex, almost like a sex of the psyche or the soul? In truth, “gender” has become something of an empty signifier, a word with no stable definition that is nonetheless endlessly deployed, shifting meanings to suit a particular context or agenda. As such, one could argue that “gender” has become meaningless.
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Dec 12, 2023 | 
erickaandersen.substack.com | Abigail Rine Favale |Beth Moore |Ericka Andersen
I’m blessed with the ability to read quickly and also with the ability to buy books on Amazon without thinking twice. Ha! I considered doing a “no book buying 2024” to save money, but that just a brief moment of insanity. Worth Your Time is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Thus, I read a lot of books even in my busy life.
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Oct 5, 2023 | 
churchlifejournal.nd.edu | Stephen M. Barr |Abigail Rine Favale
Some Catholics are not sure what to think of biological evolution. They hear from their evangelical Protestant friends and neighbors that it is contrary to Christian belief, but they do not hear much on the subject one way or the other from authorities in the Catholic Church. For example, the topic is never explicitly mentioned in the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
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Jun 28, 2023 | 
thepublicdiscourse.com | Abigail Rine Favale
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Feb 11, 2023 | 
slmedia.org | Abigail Rine Favale
This week, on a special edition of the SLHour, we revisit some of the conversations we had on this program in the Fall of 2022. We talk about the real presence of the Eucharist with Deacon Dennis Lambert and Dr. Abigail Favale tells us why there is so much confusion about gender. We also meet the Monks of Clear Creek and we reconnect with singer/songwriter Will Hickl of Novum Records.
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Feb 8, 2023 | 
americamagazine.org | Abigail Rine Favale
Editor’s note: Last year, America asked two professors of theology with backgrounds in gender studies, Elizabeth Sweeny Block of St. Louis University and Abigail Favale of the University of Notre Dame, to respond to the 2019 Vatican instruction from the Congregation for Catholic Education, “‘Male and Female He Created Them’: Towards a Path of Dialogue on the Question of Gender Theory in Education.” America then invited each scholar to respond to the other in “Conversation: How should...
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Feb 4, 2023 | 
breakpoint.org | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |Abigail Rine Favale |John Stonestreet |Maria R. Baer
Clubhouse Magazine from Focus on the Family“What we know about the killing of Tyre Nichols”“The Killing of Tyre Nichols and the Issue of Race”“Teacher who quit career for Costco job blames low salary and burnout: ‘My passion couldn’t pay my bills’”“Work is Not a Result of the Fall”The Genesis of Gender: A Christian Theory by Abigail Favale“Is Genesis Just One of the Many Creation Myths?”
