Sharon D. Welch

Courage is contagious, too.

We began this month of October, this month of courage, by looking at Dr. Sharon Welch's book, A Feminist Ethic of Risk.

And she argues that you need to let go of the idea that we can build sensible, risk-free policies.

That was only ever a myth.

That's taking a leap without knowing the outcome.

Esther got me thinking about an outstanding book by the theologian Dr. Sharon Welch.

Sharon Welch used to be the provost at Meadville Lombard, which is a Unitarian Universalist seminary.

This book is entitled A Feminist Ethic of Risk.

Welch begins the book by offering a gentle critique of the serenity prayer.

The courage piece comes in not knowing.

And so then I was flipping around on my bookshelves, and Sharon Welch is a... religious ethicist, right, who talks about a feminist ethics, ethic of risk.

And this idea that in my social location as a, you know, white man with too many degrees, I don't find myself in risk very often.

But she does these case studies with particularly with African American women that doing the thing with no particular chance of success, but because it's worth the risk.