Beth Ritter-Conn is an assistant professor of religion at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee. She earned her PhD in systematic and philosophical theology and her certificate in women’s studies in religion from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, but is otherwise a child of the American South, having grown up in Alabama and gone to school in Tennessee. Her teaching and research focus on themes of hospitality, belonging, creativity, and curiosity.
for mom The yarn was the color of vanilla ice cream. Usually my eye is drawn to vivid color, the brighter and gaudier the better. I told someone recently that my general aesthetic is “insane hippie,” and the truth is I like things just this side of tacky. Give me variegated, give me self-striping, saturate […]
