Sarah Palin, the Republican Vice Presidential candidate, has sparked a firestorm of discussion on many feminist issues. A conservative Christian, she is closely identified with an agenda that in many respects is the opposite of what I think of as feminism. See my recent piece in the new on-line magazine Religion Dispatches http://www.religiondispatches.org/art433.php for some thoughts. Since this blog is intended to be a place where issues of religion in public life and feminism come together, I offer this as a starting point for our conversation and look forward to your comments.

Mary E. Hunt