Thank you. I feel a bit vindicated: people wonder why I’m not more militant about my atheism. I respond that I appreciate the good that religion brings to people.

Thank you once again.

Hope you had a wonderful holiday!

A few years ago, I spent an entire semester listening to a Women’s Studies professor trying to get our whole class to understand just that – and the rest of what your post emphasizes. She often got steamrolled herself by my headstrong young peers who had only 20 years of life experience to go on and thought they knew everything about being a “real” feminist. (When I was still very young, my father, thank god, managed to impress upon me that, even though I might someday think I knew it all, I would indeed NOT know everything about life by the time I was 20 and thus, should not act like I did.)

I’m going to forward this to my former professor now. Might to her some good to print it and pass out, if her classes prove to be anything like mine was.

attrice, I love this sentiment — perfect.

Eden, I just bought that issue myself, and I was so excited to see the shout-out, even though I already knew it was there. I was particularly gratified that Wendy mentioned Kate’s co-bloggers — I don’t particularly expect or require recognition, since Kate is clearly the driving genius behind this place, but I sure appreciate it.