Lived Theology with Kimberlee Conway Ireton

Recently The Everyday Journal interviewed Kimberlee Conway Ireton on liturgy, family, and the church calendar.

EJ: As a woman and
mother how do you think of your personal theology and practice? Is
it more down to earth and practical? Does academics only go so far?

KCI: I must confess
that I actually like academics. I have a spirituality of the library,
you might say. I meet God most often in books and words and ideas.
This gets tricky when you’ve got little kids asking questions about
death (our beloved cat died last summer) and Heaven. How to take
those beautiful academic ideas and translate them for a
four-year-old?

So yes, academics only goes
so far when you’re interacting with children. While my bookish
tendencies remain strong, I have begun to encounter God far more
through the natural world (especially bugs!) and embodied reality
than I ever did before I had children. It’s opened my eyes to a
whole new way of being in God’s presence. You might say it’s
opening me to a more incarnational spirituality-which my
word-oriented self loves, given all the brilliant prose and poetry
that’s been written about God’s incarnation in Christ.

Read the rest of Kimberlee’s interview in The Everyday Journal]

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The Everyday Journal’s Spring 2009 issue takes a look at the many approaches to the theme "Women in Theology."  You can read the issue online or view a digital copy.