Tania M. Geist

Articles

1. Motherhood in Perspective

   May 10, 2017 | Tania M. Geist

   One fall afternoon, I was trying to get my two small children ready to go for a walk around the block, and every little preparatory step (socks, shoes, coats, etc.) was taking what seemed an eternity to accomplish. My well of patien...

2. Editorial Musings: Motherhood and the Paschal Mystery

   May 01, 2017 | Tania M. Geist

   On the night my first child was born, when she finally came into the light and they placed her onto my stomach, that moment of first seeing her face, right in front of me, was a beautiful shock: her wide open grey-blue eyes looking strai...

3. The Folly of 'Mine'

   June 20, 2016 | Tania M. Geist

   “Mine.” It’s a word that parents of young children hear a lot. And it’s a sentiment that parenthood slowly chisels out of you—that false sense of being able to lay claim to things to which we’re attach...

4. Matter Matters: On the Need for a Pastoral Theology of Radical Particularity

   February 10, 2016 | Tania M. Geist

   We like to pretend as if we have total control. “Measureless acquisition, consumption, or economic growth in a finite environment is a literally nonsensical idea; yet the imperative of growth remains unassailable, as though we did ...