In her book Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature, Janice A. Radway explores the apparent fascination of romantic fiction to many women, and…
Continue ReadingSymbology in “The Women of Brewster Place” (II of II)
Naylor’s image of ‘Man’ is symbolized by all her developed male characters. Invariably, they are the doers and accomplishers in the story — and they…
Continue ReadingSymbology in “The Women of Brewster Place” (I of II)
Book authored by Gloria Naylor. Book review originally written in 1996 for an English Writing & Composition class Initially, Gloria Naylor’s book The Women of…
Continue ReadingReview: “Their Eyes Were Watching God” by Zora Neale Hurston (III of III)
Blackness & whiteness White people seemed almost incidental to the story, like mythological spirits or forces of nature, like the hurricane which ends up being…
Continue ReadingReview: “Their Eyes Were Watching God” by Zora Neale Hurston (II of III)
Women & men I think this is why there are so few whites in Their Eyes Were Watching God, in fact. The real issue isn’t…
Continue ReadingReview: “Their Eyes Were Watching God” by Zora Neale Hurston (I of III)
Originally posted December 2005 Credits: for my book club, who once again chose something fascinating I wouldn’t ordinarily have picked up. Synopsis This is the…
Continue Reading“Here I Stand: My Struggle for a Christianity of Integrity, Love, and Equality” by Retired Bishop John Shelby Spong (III of III)
The inadequacy of institutionalized religious responses to the jarring reality of real life issues is part of Spong’s self-questioning. He finds hope as well as…
Continue Reading“Here I Stand: My Struggle for a Christianity of Integrity, Love, and Equality” by Retired Bishop John Shelby Spong (II of III)
In a similarly challenging situation several years later, Spong has people come to his house, purporting to be friends who represent his entire congregation. They…
Continue Reading“Here I Stand: My Struggle for a Christianity of Integrity, Love, and Equality” by Retired Bishop John Shelby Spong (I of III)
Originally posted October 2005 Credits: for Peter McWilliams, author of the fascinating Ain’t Nobody’s Business If You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in Our…
Continue ReadingThoughts on the Disciple Jesus Loved: A case for it being Mary Magdalene (II of II)
There is no doubt in the writing of the author of John as to whether Jesus loved that disciple. Is this a physical as well…
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