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August 2016

August 11, 2016

This Pro-Life Simone Biles Meme Gets It All Wrong

Neither Planned Parenthood nor any pro-choice activist I know of would call a woman "unfit."...

August 09, 2016

The Gospel Coalition Acknowledges that Evangelicals Have a Problem with Interracial Marriage

Can we pause for a moment and remember that Bob Jones University didn't lift its...

August 08, 2016

More Young Adults Lived with Their Parents in 1940 than Live with Their Parents Today

A Pew Research headline popped up on my Facebook feed recently. For First Time in...

August 01, 2016

Tim LaHaye Wrote More than Left Behind

While some people are already familiar with this piece of LaHaye's repertoire, I suspect far...

May 2016

May 05, 2016

Christian Homeschool Leader Announces Conference for Arranging Child Marriages

This November, in Wichita, Kansas, fundamentalist and conservative evangelical parents will gather at a conference...

March 2016

March 23, 2016

What Makes Someone a Feminist?

After reading Sankey's essay, it's clear that she's correct in declaring herself not a feminist....

March 17, 2016

No, Marriage Does Not “Make” People Healthier

We live in a society where many people move frequently, and where we can sometimes...

February 2016

February 16, 2016

Saeed Abedini, Franklin Graham, and the Manipulative Abuse of Couples Counseling

What becomes manifestly clear is that Franklin Graham has no understanding of how abuse functions....

February 16, 2016

What Do Dating and Grocery Stores Have in Common?

At its core, opposition to forming romantic relationships without the intent of marriage is rooted...

February 03, 2016

Naghmeh Abedini, Franklin Graham, and the Silencing of Evangelical Abuse Victims

Finally, I made the mistake of reading comments on Facebook and you know what? A...

January 2016

January 12, 2016

Hi! Married Feminist Mother Here!

Last summer Ladies Against Feminism posted an article titled "Speak for Yourself: Why Single Feminists...

November 2015

November 12, 2015

Coming Full Circle

In a way, some things in my life have come full circle. Jared was the...

October 2015

October 14, 2015

Marriage Is Not a Magical Social Cure

It is true that children in married parent homes do better than children in unmarried...

August 2015

August 15, 2015

Proponents of Marriage Generally Make Marriage Sound Horrible

Suzanne Venker is at it again, this time with a column titled Why Men Won't...

July 2015

July 30, 2015

Evangelical Author Shaunti Feldhahn’s Misleading Work on Marriage and Divorce

The issue is not that divorce rates were never close to 50% but rather that...

July 06, 2015

Dating Is Dead: Long Live Whatever-We-Call-It-Now!

I married Sean because he and I had formed a strong partnership and camaraderie that...

July 01, 2015

Gay Marriage and the Freedom to Offend

Someone's priorities feel slightly askew.

June 2015

June 27, 2015

Conservatives Grapple with Marriage Equality

There are really only two things I can say for sure here: First, evangelicals will...

June 18, 2015

Are Evangelicals Rejecting Legal Marriage?

Don't expect to see a surge in divorces among evangelicals after marriage equality is universal....

May 2015

May 04, 2015

Any Time I Hear Someone Say “Traditional Marriage”

In the end, "let's keep things the way they are" will always be the argument...

April 2015

April 08, 2015

When Marriage Looks Like the Only Escape

Looking back, I view the options I had at the time as suboptimal, but I'm...

March 2015

March 24, 2015

Monogamy Isn’t Biblical, It’s Roman

I don't have a problem with people arguing that Christians should be monogamous, or finding...

February 2015

February 21, 2015

Evangelical Christianity’s Patriarchal Alternative to Fifty Shades of Grey

Old Fashioned is a Christian movie alternative to Fifty Shades of Grey, released the same...

February 14, 2015

What I Love about My Feminist Husband

When I was a teen, my father told me it would take a special kind...

January 2015

January 22, 2015

On Responding to Abuse Allegations

It is easy to call out abuse carried out by your enemy, but far, far...

December 2014

December 25, 2014

Do Traditional Gender Roles Lead to Good Sex? No.

In other words, the author's gendered marriage roles do not by themselves lead to trust...

December 23, 2014

The Longsuffering Godly Abused Wife

And so if it is already accepted that being a properly submissive wife is all...

December 03, 2014

“He’ll never by the cow when he can get the milk for free”

And of course, there's also the fact that marriage is no longer a purchase transaction....

November 2014

November 24, 2014

Jill and Jessa Duggar Have “Covenant” Marriages

As some of you may have noticed, both Jill and Jessa Duggar have "convenient marriages."...

November 13, 2014

Punishment Has No Place in Marriage*

I grew up in an evangelical family, raised by parents who believed that husbands are...