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For Favale, it was the experience of motherhood that served as ‘one of the major catalysts’ for her eventual conversion to Catholicism, she told the Register.
As Abigail Favale settled at her desk for our interview over Zoom, I noticed a tattoo of St. Joan of Arc on her upper arm, partially covered by short sleeves and long, dark, wavy hair draping freely over her shoulders. An eloquent writer with a robustly formed intellect — exemplified in her most recently published book, Genesis of Gender: A Christian Theory — Favale’s in-person demeanor is approachable and down-to-earth, occasionally betraying glimpses of her sense of humor beneath the professional surface of our online interview.
“I’m looking right now at all these pictures of holy women I have on my wall,” Favale said, as she recounted her journey from evangelical Christianity, through an academic career in postmodern feminist theory, to her reception into the Catholic Church.
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As Abigail Favale settled at her desk for our interview over Zoom, I noticed a tattoo of St. Joan of Arc on her upper arm, partially covered by short sleeves and long, dark, wavy hair draping freely over her shoulders. An eloquent writer with a robustly formed intellect — exemplified in her most recently published book, Genesis of Gender: A Christian Theory — Favale’s in-person demeanor is approachable and down-to-earth, occasionally betraying glimpses of her sense of humor beneath the professional surface of our online interview.
“I’m looking right now at all these pictures of holy women I have on my wall,” Favale said, as she recounted her journey from evangelical Christianity, through an academic career in postmodern feminist theory, to her reception into the Catholic Church.
Continued below.
A Profile of Abigail Favale: Feminism, Gender and an Unlikely Conversion
For Favale, it was the experience of motherhood that served as ‘one of the major catalysts’ for her eventual conversion to Catholicism, she told the Register.
