ABSTRACT
Blogging can facilitate activist activity around issues that religious feminists have long advocated: breaking silence and raising consciousness, cultivating a hermeneutic of suspicion, and creating community. The personality of the blogger shapes the content since blogs usually involve personal reflection. The blogosphere presents new opportunities for women in ministry. An examination of selected blogs reveals that blogging can embrace the values of religious feminism, and re-form ministry in non-hierarchical manners. Creating non-hierarchical community is a value and goal of women's liberation and feminist religious scholarships. The blog transgresses gender and religious boundaries with male and female contributors covering Christianity, goddess traditions, Islam, Hinduism and atheism. In religious feminism, New Testament scholar Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza is best known for her adaptation of Paul Ricoeurs terminology of having a hermeneutic of suspicion. The rhizomatic networking of religious feminists allows women to experience ministry in new ways.
