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November 2017

November 13, 2017

My Body and My Faith

Maybe don’t read this if you are sensitive to discussions of abuse, sexual assault, or...

July 2017

July 13, 2017

Hagar and Sally

Trigger Warning: Discussion of rape and sexual violence. Sally Hemings was not a mistress. She...

October 2016

October 14, 2016

Supporting Jory

I am writing this post in support of Jory Micah. Jory focuses her work on...

October 13, 2016

Microagressions

According to Dictionary.com, a microaggression is "a subtle, but offensive comment or action directed...

August 2016

August 14, 2016

Sexism in the Church

This topic was bound to come up given some of the things that are going...

June 2016

June 17, 2016

Love Made of Fire: Love, Trauma & Lament In a Post-Orlando World

PAIN MADE OF FIRE On Sunday, June 12th, like so many others, I woke up...

June 14, 2016

Defiantly Love Your Neighbor

While many people have said what I’m about to say - I will say it...

May 2016

May 13, 2016

Closed Hearts, Closed Minds, Closed Doors: A Letter to all LGBTQIA and Allied United Methodists

You are loved. You were made in the image of God. You are part of...

April 2016

April 28, 2016

What Do You See When You Look at Me: Beyonce, Colorism & Identity

I am an adoptee from Colombia. I was born in Bogota. My adoptive sister, six...

April 14, 2016

A Resurrection World for Women

Given how Lent went, I’m thankful that we are reminded that resurrection comes. After the...

February 2016

February 13, 2016

Radical, Subversive, Defiant, Self-Love

Black Women live in a crossroads of oppression where racism and sexism meet, and that...

January 2016

January 30, 2016

Jesus Was A Man

I’ve been doing yoga therapy lately. In simplistic terms it’s a kind of counseling that...

January 25, 2016

The Fidelity Of Limits

Below is an interview with Associate Chaplain of the United Methodist Protestant Community at American...

January 14, 2016

Wayne Grudem for President #nothanks

Disclaimer: I tend not to comment on politics, and I haven’t been following the Republican...

December 2015

December 16, 2015

A Little Christmas Hope

The Nativity scene is one of my favorite parts of the Advent/Christmas season. Remembering the...

November 2015

November 20, 2015

Remembering All We Have Lost — #TDOR

For many of you, the gender binary simply exists as a pervasive framework around which...

November 04, 2015

Gendered Life in the U.S., Voices We Should Hear

One of the CNN.com leads today described a 19-year-old Afghan woman being buried in ground...

October 2015

October 14, 2015

Women Sticking Together

When I first started studying women and the church, it became very clear that...

October 12, 2015

Calling God “She” — It’s Just Another Pronoun!

To linguistically portray God as a father, or God as a woman giving birth, or...

July 2015

July 14, 2015

To Lament Injustice

A few months ago I wrote about a situation at Northwest Nazarene University where Tom...

March 2015

March 12, 2015

Revolution, Evolution or Good Disagreement?

This post is prompted by a number of things that have left me pondering how...

March 02, 2015

Unitive Consciousness: Beyond Gender

What we are searching for in any authentic male or female spirituality is the good...