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June 2019

June 12, 2019

Sexual Abuse and Religious Authority in the SBC: One Survivor’s View

I've shared before that I'm a survivor of childhood sexual trauma in a Southern Baptist...

May 2019

May 07, 2019

Patriarchy, the Reluctant Ruler, and the Mad Queen (GOT Spoilers!)

I'm very new to the Game of Thrones world. Since some of my students are...

September 2018

September 25, 2018

Creating A Safe Place To Dance

We live in a world that is sexually unsafe. Especially in college. Especially on the...

November 2017

November 09, 2017

Roy Moore: The Ultimate Test For Evangelicals

It really is starting to feel like something supernatural and apocalyptic is at foot in...

October 2017

October 17, 2017

How Badly Have Traditional Christian Sexual Ethics Failed?

I was molested at an overnight lock-in for my church basketball team by the most...

June 2017

June 28, 2017

The fascinating intersectionality of the word “cuck”

One of the most bizarre phenomena of the Trump era is the reintroduction of a...

January 2017

January 07, 2017

Hypersensitive college professor asks hypersensitive president-elect to protect him from his hypersensitive students

First Things senior editor and Emory English professor Mark Bauerlein is intimidated by his college...

November 2016

November 16, 2016

Intersectionality for bewildered white evangelicals

In the Washington Post this week, white evangelical millennial leader Katelyn Beaty said, "I can’t...

November 01, 2015

Seven points of contention in today’s reformation

So it's that time of year known as Reformation Sunday when we remember the anniversary...

December 2014

December 06, 2014

Media sensationalism and rape culture at my alma mater UVA (TW: rape culture)

It's been a hard couple of weeks to be a Wahoo in the wake of...

March 2014

March 05, 2014

Wrestling with sex (#sermon #podcast)

This was the final sermon of our Wrestling series a couple of weekends ago. We...

September 2013

September 10, 2013

The Christian wife-spanking movement [TW]

I really don't know what to say. Victims of domestic violence probably shouldn't read this...

September 05, 2013

“Biblical” men don’t date? (A face-palmer from the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood)

Normally I don't see much of a point in engaging fundamentalist Christian entities like the...

August 2013

August 20, 2013

What is the burden of proof in the #Methodist #homosexuality debate?

In the American justice system, all defendants are innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable...

August 02, 2013

Five verses God has tattooed on my heart — #1: 1 Corinthians 1:28

In seminary, I learned to think of truth as a symphony rather than a single...

July 2013

July 12, 2013

Should women cover their heads in church?

The latest movement in neo-patriarchal evangelicaldom is a call for women to return to covering...

April 2013

April 28, 2013

My wife is not a rotisserie chicken or a leaky faucet

Complementarian megachurch pastors are like pitchers who only throw 40 mile an hour change-ups. It...

February 2013

February 01, 2013

Holistic sexuality, distorting pieties, and the pursuit of heaven

There's been an outburst this past week from evangelical women bloggers against the idolatry of...

January 2013

January 12, 2013

Lust, patriarchy, and capitalism: a response to Dianna Anderson

I had an interesting twitter conversation today with a Christian feminist blogger named Dianna Anderson...

May 2012

May 01, 2012

Biblical and inclusive: Methodism wrestles with homosexuality

“No scripture can mean that God is not love and that His mercy is not...

June 2011

June 07, 2011

Homosexuality & Biblical Authority

I got an email today from the Virginia Methodist state listserv that let me know...