Lisa Powell

Lisa Powell is a professor of theology and the director of the Justice, Diversity, and Gender Studies program at St. Ambrose University. Her most recent book is The Disabled God Revisited: Trinity, Christology, and Liberation. She has published articles in the Journal for the Feminist Study of Religion, the Journal for the Society of Christian Ethics, and elsewhere.

Lisa Powell

Would It Be Lonely to Be God?

“I think it must be lonely to be God,” begins a poem by Gwendolyn Brooks.[1] The poem’s narrator describes the elements of jovial companionship we relish as humans—the walks together, the slaps on the shoulder, the sharing of a Coke or a beer—and ponders how God can enjoy these relational interactions while striding “through the […]