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July 2014

July 11, 2014

“Bush Vs. Beard Contest:” Misogyny in Jesus Feminist Men

I'm glad that mainstream Evangelical Christianity is starting to talk about feminism and women's rights....

July 10, 2014

Beautiful, Beautiful Bitterness

The other morning, I came across a tweet from a self-identified “theobrogian,” calling for ex-fundamentalist...

July 07, 2014

Why Do We Blame the Victim?: We Don’t Want to Face Our Responsibility and Privilege

This is post number two in a series I'm working on about why we tend...

July 04, 2014

We Are Not “All The Same Inside” Our Wallets: A Response to Burger King’s Proud Whopper, From A Former BK Employee

In case you haven't heard, a Burger King store in San Francisco recently began selling...

June 2014

June 30, 2014

Why Do We Blame the Victim?: We Are Afraid of a World Outside of Our Control

[Content Note: Victim Blaming, Abusive Relationships] The topic of victim blaming has been on my...

June 27, 2014

N.T. Wright: A Follow-Up

I'm still getting interesting responses to the post on N.T. Wright and marriage equality that...

June 26, 2014

On Proverbs, Job, and Why Victim Blaming is Next to Blasphemy

I've been taking a class on the Psalms and Wisdom Literature, and reading both the...

June 13, 2014

More Like N.T. Wrong, Amirite?: How N.T. Wright’s Bigotry Causes Him To Contradict His Own Theology

In case you haven't heard, N.T. Wright--author of theology books such as Surprised By Hope and Simply Christian, and...

June 11, 2014

A Benediction for My Fellow Queer Christians

For personal safety reasons, I'm going to ask anyone who chooses to share this post...

June 06, 2014

This Guy Broke Up With His Girlfriend Using Only Memes (And I’m Not Laughing)

[Content Note: Death Threats, Shootings, Violence Against Women] Sometimes I click on click-bait. I admit...

May 2014

May 19, 2014

Modest Is Hottest: A Guest Post for No Shame Movement

Today, I'm over at No Shame Movement sharing my story about growing up in Christian purity...

April 2014

April 30, 2014

What You Teach Your Kids When You Hit Them

Until we live in a culture that not only respects but also upholds basic civil...

March 2014

March 28, 2014

Over the Moon for Paxil: Afraid to be Alive

[Content Note: Mental Health Issues, Eating Problems] This post is part of a series in...

March 20, 2014

Over The Moon For Paxil: A Possible Series Announcement

I haven't been doing as much regular blogging as I used to. As I've talked...

March 10, 2014

Loving My Mind for Lent.

Last year, during Lent, I wrote what would turn out to be one of my...

March 05, 2014

The Answer To Sexual Shame is Not MORE Sexual Shame, Carson T. Clark

[Content Note: Sexual and Spiritual Abuse] When I was 16, I dated an abuser who...

February 2014

February 27, 2014

Why I’d Choose Conservative Christianity Over Amanda Marcotte’s Feminism

[Content Note: Rape, Victim Blaming, Unjust Arrest] This Monday, popular feminist writer Amanda Marcotte wrote...

February 12, 2014

Was Jesus Progressive For His Time?

Liberal/progressive/leftist Christians like to paint Jesus as an exceptional figure who fought for human rights...

February 10, 2014

On Bob Jones University, and Letting Survivors Speak

Content Note: Rape, Sexual Assault Growing up expecting to go to Bob Jones University today...

February 06, 2014

Not So Fast, The Daily Beast: The Radical Act of Trusting Children

Content Note: Discussion of sexual assault, victim blaming This is my second piece in response...

February 03, 2014

Not So Fast, The Daily Beast: On Rape Myths and Those Slutty, Gossipy Women

Content Note: Discussion of sexual assault, victim blaming This is a response to a piece...

January 2014

January 21, 2014

Can detachment from others serve life?

Calls for empathy and compassion toward oppressors and abusers are popular in American Christianity. I...

January 08, 2014

Proverbs of Ashes and suffering to save our oppressors

I'm currently reading through Proverbs of Ashes by Rita Nakashima Brock and Rebecca Ann Parker. In the...

January 07, 2014

Proverbs of Ashes: “What If This Is Not True?”

I am tired of the ways Christian theology is used, over and over and over...

January 03, 2014

#PlanetCCM: Five Iron Frenzy, the Soundtrack to My Deconversion (and Reconversion)

Content Note: Discussion of suicide and depression My husband (fiancé at the time) went to...

January 02, 2014

“Turn and Face the Strange”

I got married this past August and moved from Michigan to Ohio. When I did...

December 2013

December 20, 2013

Stealing Sexy Calendars isn’t Jesus, and it isn’t Radical.

On December 4th, the editors at Jesus Radicals chose to publish a post that left...

December 19, 2013

#PlanetCCM: Relient K And Using CCM To Sell Sexism

Content Note: Victim Blaming, Body Shaming Dianna E. Anderson is hosting a synchroblog this week about contemporary...

December 17, 2013

#PlanetCCM: When Planet IFB has no CCM

Dianna Anderson, my friend and fellow blogger, is hosting a synchroblog on contemporary Christian music...

December 10, 2013

Love And R-E-S-P-E-C-T

As regular readers know, I've recently read the Christian marriage book, Love and Respect (which was supposed...