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I can think of one or two people on my flist who may be interested in this Guardian article on a black woman rabbi from the US, Alysa Stanton, and the difficulties she has faced as a convert and a black woman, both from her birth community, white Christians, and her new community - but also the positives.

Gruaniad spell-checking strikes again, though: She was attracted to it she says because Judaism encompasses not just religion but also spiritualism, social justice and community.

I'm not Jewish, but I'm pretty sure they mean 'spirituality'. Though it also makes me rather sad, because Christianity encompasses all these thing (well, not spiritualism), which suggests how often the church is bad at doing what it's supposed to (though every conversion is complicated, and I would put money on there being a bigger theological issue that journalists generally don't want to get into. Such as, say, the Trinity, or the divinity of Christ).

One of these things is not like the other

My bibliography currently has the following run of books at the top of p 24:

Reifenberg, Hermann. 1994. “Blut Christi: Liturgisch und frömmigkeitsgeschichtlich” in Lexikon für Theologie und Kirche 2. 3rd edition. Ed Walter Kaspar, Konrad Baumgartner, et al. Freiburg/Br.: Herder.
Reynolds, P.L. 1989. “Bullitio and the God Beyond God: Meister Eckhart’s Trinitarian Theology,” New Blackfriars, 70, 169-181 and 235-244.
Rhodes, Ed. 2007. “Identifying Human Modification of River Channels” in Waterways and Canal-Building in Medieval England. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 133-152.
Riches, Samantha JE and Salih, Sarah. 2002. “Introduction. Gender and holiness: performance and representation in the later Middle Ages” in Gender and Holiness. Men, women and saints in late medieval Europe. Edited by Samantha JE Riches and Sarah Salih. London: Routledge.
Ringler, Siegfried. 1980. Viten- und Offenbarungsliteratur im Frauenklöster des Mittelalters. Stuttgart: Hiersemann.
Rordorf, Willy. 1980. ‘Martyre II : Théologie et spiritualité du martyre’ Dictionnaire spiritualité X. Ed M Viller, F Cavallera, A Derville et al. Paris: Beauchesne.


Well, it amuses me, anyway.