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Susan M. O'Shaughnessy

Susan M. O'Shaughnessy

Associate Professor of Philosophy

Concordia College

Susan M. O’Shaughnessy is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota. This homily was delivered at Concordia on October 8, 2008.

Published Articles

Reflection

The Neglected Miracle of Pentecost

Susan M. O'Shaughnessy

No. 32 · Spring 2010

O’Shaughnessy, in a homily delivered at Concordia College in 2008, reads the Pentecost narrative of Acts 2 through Maria Lugones and Elizabeth Spelman’s 1983 critique of white feminism’s cultural imperialism. She argues that the miracle is not the disciples’ speaking but the immigrant Jews’ hearing—and that the writer of Acts withholds the content of what was said precisely to teach disciples that people of privilege know less than the foreigner, the immigrant, the oppressed, the woman, the child, and must learn to listen in new languages before they can speak.
Article

The Impropriety of Jesus' Teaching: The Woman at the Well and The Vagina Monologues

Susan M. O'Shaughnessy

No. 16 · Winter 2003

O’Shaughnessy Poppe dedicates her message to those who worked to put on Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues against administrative resistance and reads the Samaritan woman at Jacob’s well alongside the testimony of a Bosnian rape survivor whose story Ensler asked to tell, arguing that the “impropriety” of Jesus—his scandalous recognition of those silenced by sexism, racism, war, custom, and the church—is the model for the mission of a college of the church to defend academic freedom and to break the chains of oppression by inflicting discomfort on the proper and pure.

Susan M. O'Shaughnessy

Published Articles

The Neglected Miracle of Pentecost

The Impropriety of Jesus' Teaching: The Woman at the Well and The Vagina Monologues