Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments and Permissions xi
4. Living with the Past, Envisioning the Future 1
5. Domestic and Global Social Justice
6. Mary 15
7. You Don’t Belong Here 16
8. Salt 22
9. Citizen Voices 26
10. Inundated 35
11. A Person Is a Person 38
12. My Better‑Late‑Than‑Never Confirmation 52
13. Let Us Pray Together 74
14. Sexuality and Motherhood
15. From the Womb of Christ 78
16. Feminism, Faith, and My Mother’s Church 80
17. Raising Valerie 85
18. Applying for Sainthood 92
19. Mystic Trinities 94
20. My Mary 107
21. Losing My Religion 109
22. The Enunciation 117
23. Magdalene 122
24. Transubstantiation 124
25. Our Hail Mary Pass 126
26. Spiritual Activism and Utopian Vision
27. Not Faith 130
28. I Could Have Been a Psalmist 131
29. On Desire and Direction 133
30. The Heretic 140
31. Unfinished (upon the completion of a doctorate of ministry) 141
32. La Llorona 143
33. The Lydian Woman Speaks to the Dead Saint 145
34. Summer Solstice 147
35. She Will Rise 150
36. Notes on Contributors 153