Carolyn Roncolato
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Competing Aims
by Carolyn Roncolato
I am racked with worry that my one year old is sick yet again, for what feels like the one-millionth time (but I think is actually the fourth in six weeks). All of this illness-a cold, the flu, an allergic reaction, a trip to the emergency room, a week of diarrhea, and anot..
Feeling all the Feelings
by Carolyn Roncolato
This week I started a new job after being the primary care giver for our son for the past year. This was also Ben’s first week of daycare. Day one he seemed to feel ok. Day two, not so much. I returned to a poor sweet worn out baby, sitting in a tiny chair, weeping into his..
A Process Christmas
by Carolyn Roncolato
The standard Christmas story- preached from pulpits, performed in pageants, colored on cards, and sung in songs- depicts Jesus as some sort of perfect God baby- “the cattle are lowing, the baby awakes, but little lord Jesus no crying he makes.” Christian loyalty to Greek ph..
WISDOM CRIES OUT IN THE STREET
by Carolyn Roncolato
The black students of University of Missouri have been on my heart these last two weeks. I am moved by their bravery, their wisdom, their furry, and their joy in the fight against deep and pervasive racism. Their struggle for justice calls to mind one of my favorite images ..
A NEW INTEREST IN HEAVEN
by Carolyn Roncolato
I often invite students to bring to class their most befuddling theological question. This week a friend asked me what mine is- I quickly answered “the afterlife.” Though I have never had a sufficient explanation for or understanding of the afterlife, I never worried that m..
BLACK MOTHER GOD
By Carolyn Roncolato
We are an adoptive family. Our son is black and my partner and I are white. This has been a particularly intense year to be white parents of an African American boy and to deal with the complexities of transracial adoption. It seems that every week there is yet another stor..
CO-CREATING A NEW WAY
By Carolyn Roncolato
My partner and I tried to get pregnant for seven years- seven years of waiting, doctor’s visits, tests, medications, treatments, special diets, etc. I prayed ceaselessly, not so much for a baby as for an answer to what to do. I am a process feminist theologian who on most d..