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Why I Don’t Use Bible Verses as Evidence
It has been noted that my writing comes from experience and is secular in nature....
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Contradictions: Who’s the Visual-est of Them All?
Fundamentalists argue that women should dress conservatively because men are visual. This is supposedly something...
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How the Modesty Doctrine Hurts Men, Too
I've written a few times about how the modesty doctrine hurts women. Now it's time...
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Modesty: a response to common misunderstandings
Inevitably, when I write about the modesty issue, I get some variation of the following...
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This isn't a story about how modest clothes allowed me to "let myself go" and...
September 2011
September 21, 2011
This is cross-posted at No Longer Quivering. Growing up in fundamentalism was like living with...
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How to fake it like a Message girl
Women in the Message of the Hour are not allowed to wear makeup. They are...
August 2011
August 31, 2011
"Culture" is a fraught concept just about everywhere. In the academy, people debate what it...
August 15, 2011
The Message vs. the Gospel: Lust and Responsibility
One Sunday, about a year or two before I left my Message church, my pastor...
August 07, 2011
Women's clothing is a favorite pig to roast in the Message. Some preachers, like one...
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