Salt: Seasoned Theology

Poetic presence, pedagogical reflection, and the long arc of becoming

I’m Dr. Jill Crainshaw—professor, poet, and theological companion. For more than two decades, I’ve taught and written from the edges of transformation: where grief meets hope, where justice requires tenderness, where vocation unfolds in slow and unexpected ways.

This site is a gathering place for what I call poetic theology, a form of creative, critical, and embodied reflection that listens more than it declares, and tends more than it explains. It’s a theology that is seasoned by experience, by memory, by institutional tension and sacred restlessness.

Here you’ll find essays, poems, and invitations to live with theological questions in all their nuance. I write from a location shaped by feminist pedagogy, queer embodiment, and a commitment to kindness as a systemic act.

Whether you are a teacher, minister, poet, or pilgrim, I hope this space helps you hear what’s stirring in the silences.

Welcome. May we listen our way forward—together.