**Avaren
Ipsen is a PhD candidate at the Graduate
Theological Union in Biblical Literature and is an adjunct
Lecturer at UC Berkeley in the Department of Interdisciplinary
Studies. A wife, mother and student Avaren is also very involved
with local grassroots activism. She considers herself to be an
"organic intellectual" and a feminist liberation theologian. Her
dissertation work is on the Bible and global prostitution. Ipsen
along with many other scholars in the field are using the Bible
to show that prostitution was accepted by Jesus and that he in
fact was nice to prostitutes.
When she is not lecturing on
campus or studying, Avaren and her son Gus spend time protesting
nuclear power or dress up like “Killer Tomatoes” to educate the
public about Genetically Modified Organisms. She was recently
appointed to the Berkeley Commission on the Status of Women, a
position she hopes to use to further the rights of prostitutes
in the Bay Area and around California. "It's very much about the
civil rights of women. Should women be jailed for adult
consensual sex?"
**Avaren
Ipsen is a PhD candidate at the Graduate
Theological Union in Biblical Literature and is an adjunct
Lecturer at UC Berkeley in the Department of Interdisciplinary
Studies. A wife, mother and student Avaren is also very involved
with local grassroots activism. She considers herself to be an
"organic intellectual" and a feminist liberation theologian. Her
dissertation work is on the Bible and global prostitution. Ipsen
along with many other scholars in the field are using the Bible
to show that prostitution was accepted by Jesus and that he in
fact was nice to prostitutes.
