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December 2012

December 18, 2012

Adventures in Egalitarian Marriage: On the Rocks, Please

Ever since I was a little girl, I've found engagement rings totally perplexing. The part...

October 2012

October 18, 2012

Adventures in Egalitarian Marriage, Part One: Mrs. Who?

"Is your husband home?" I wasn't prepared to answer that question. If my neighbors' wide,...

October 17, 2012

Evangelical Christian Marriage: Hawking the Product

In evangelical Christian culture, marriage is a commodity. Marriage books are sold like gardening manuals...

October 16, 2012

Love is what “we” do; sex is what “they” do

Justin Lee, executive director of the Gay Christian Network, has just written an excellent post...

August 2012

August 06, 2012

Sexuality Project – Introducing Calulu, Jenn, Meggie, Parker, Shadowspring and Vyckie

Welcome to another round of the Religious Fundamentalism and Sexuality Project! This time, our writers...

August 01, 2012

“I Don’t Hate Gay People, They Just Shouldn’t Get Married”: Chick-fil-A’s Supporters Need a Lesson on Structural Violence

Chick-fil-A sent ripples through my church in the early noughties; I still have no real...

July 2012

July 20, 2012

Gloating and Slander: Michael Pearl, Nancy Ann Wilson, and Christian Fundamentalist Responses to Criticism

Femina has been lighting up like a Christmas tree since The Gospel Coalition blog post that...

July 19, 2012

Doug Wilson on The Gospel Coalition: How Christian Patriarchy Turns Sex into Rape and Pregnancy into Slavery

Trigger warning for rape and sexual abuse. Jared Wilson unwittingly set off a flare in...

July 13, 2012

Sexuality Project: Questioning, Q. 2

This is an installment of the Religious Fundamentalism and Sexuality Project. You can read the full...

July 11, 2012

Sexuality Project: Questioning, Q. 1

This is an installment of the Religious Fundamentalism and Sexuality Project. You can read the full...

July 09, 2012

Sexuality Project: Romantic Relationships, Q. 5

This is an installment of the Religious Fundamentalism and Sexuality Project. You can read the full...

July 08, 2012

Sexuality Project: Romantic Relationships, Q. 3

This is an installment of the Religious Fundamentalism and Sexuality Project. You can read the full...

July 07, 2012

Anniversary: Five Years of Love, Commitment, Skype, and Video Games

Where's the next post for the sexuality project?! you may be asking. Don't worry, they're...

July 07, 2012

Daughter of the Patriarchy Series: Stuart of the Lovely Locks

This is an installment of the Daughter of the Patriarchy series. Read the rest here....

July 06, 2012

Sexuality Project: Romantic Relationships, Q. 2

This is an installment of the Religious Fundamentalism and Sexuality Project. You can read the full...

July 06, 2012

Wifely Submission and Honoring, Cherishing and Loving Your Wife as Your Own Body

Leaders of the Christian Patriarchy Movement and their disciples (minor pastors who covet their attention)...

July 05, 2012

Sexuality Project: Romantic Relationships, Q. 1

This is an installment of the Religious Fundamentalism and Sexuality Project. You can read the full...

July 01, 2012

Sexuality Project: Peer Group, Q. 2

This is an installment of the Religious Fundamentalism and Sexuality Project. You can read the full...

June 2012

June 22, 2012

The Incredible Helplessness of Men: Lust Edition, Epilogue

Following up my last post about the John Edwards and Rielle Hunter affair, have a...

June 10, 2012

Rachel Held Evans: Is Patriarchy Really God’s Dream for the World?

Rachel Held Evans has just followed up the discussion linked in my last post with the literary...

June 09, 2012

Christian Patriarchy and Complementarianism: “Separate But Equal” Puts on Lipstick

Complementarianism is a lie. Yeah. It's fake. It doesn't exist. What does exist is patriarchy in...

June 06, 2012

Christian Fundamentalist Homophobia, Part Two: The Argument is in the Eyebrows

Trigger warning: The following post contains frank descriptions of the hate speech against LGBTQ people...

June 04, 2012

Feminist Mormon Housewives: A gender identity story

Those who read Melissa's story at Permission to Live will probably be interested in this story,...

June 01, 2012

Modesty, Body Policing and Rape Culture: Connecting the Dots

Definition: The “modesty doctrine” is the belief that women need to cover their bodies to prevent...

May 2012

May 30, 2012

Christian Fundamentalist Homophobia, Part One: Generalized Anxiety and Images of Depravity

Trigger warning: The following post contains frank descriptions of the hate speech against LGBTQ people...

May 27, 2012

Christian Fundamentalist Homophobia: It Really Is About Fear (Introducing a New Series)

Trigger warning: The following post contains frank descriptions of the hate speech against LGBTQ people...

May 24, 2012

The Last Name Project

From Two to One and The Feminist Mystique are co-hosting a series called The Last...

May 20, 2012

Libby Anne: Christian Patriarchy and Bodily Ownership

(Note: This is cross-posted from Love, Joy, Feminism. The original is here.) By Libby Anne...

April 2012

April 11, 2012

Bedroom Submission, Birth Control and Tokophobia

Like most fundamentalist churches, mine taught that wives were commanded by God to give their...

April 10, 2012

Emotional Incest: The Bottom Line

My last two posts, and indeed all my thinking on the subject has led me...

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