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2014-02-03T18:48:29-06:00

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

Last updated on: February 3, 2014 at 6:48 pm By Sarah Moon

Content Note: Discussion of sexual assault, victim blaming This is a response to a piece published on The Daily Beast by Robert B. Weide. It will likely be the first of two or three posts on the topic, so stay tuned for further thoughts. On February 1st, Dylan Farrow penned an open letter about her adopted father, director Woody Allen: What’s your favorite Woody Allen movie? Before you answer, you should know: when I was seven years old, Woody Allen... Read more

2014-01-21T15:58:38-06:00

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Can detachment from others serve life?

Last updated on: January 21, 2014 at 3:58 pm By Sarah Moon

Calls for empathy and compassion toward oppressors and abusers are popular in American Christianity. I think this is true of a variety of branches of Christianity, although more conservative branches may express this empathy differently from more liberal branches. Not really surprising–after all, Jesus told us to love our enemies. Jesus said “Father, forgive them.” Jesus was always being moved with compassion. Empathy and compassion can be great things. But after leaving fundamentalism, I began to see how the conservative... Read more

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2014-01-08T06:47:24-06:00

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Proverbs of Ashes and suffering to save our oppressors

Last updated on: January 8, 2014 at 6:47 am By Sarah Moon

I’m currently reading through Proverbs of Ashes by Rita Nakashima Brock and Rebecca Ann Parker. In the chapter I’m reading, Parker shares some thoughts about several different theologies of suffering and what these theologies say to and about survivors of abuse. One of the theologies Parker addresses is the “moral influence” theology of suffering (pg. 41). This theology states that by accepting violence, as Christ did on the cross, we can appeal to the conscious of our oppressors and change their hearts,... Read more

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2014-01-07T06:56:56-06:00

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

Last updated on: January 7, 2014 at 6:56 am By Sarah Moon

I am tired of the ways Christian theology is used, over and over and over to justify and enable abuse. Tired is the right word to use there. I was angry. I was outraged. I was determined to find a new way of thinking about Christianity that was freeing, rather than oppressive. But right now, as I deal with some health problems and personal issues, I am just tired. I feel exhausted, hopeless, powerless as I see more and more... Read more

2014-01-03T11:00:56-06:00

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

Last updated on: January 3, 2014 at 11:00 am By Sarah Moon

Content Note: Discussion of suicide and depression My husband (fiancé at the time) went to a Five Iron Frenzy show last year, shortly after the band reunited and started touring again. When we walked out of the concert venue, we both started to say something at the same time, then stopped, and laughed. “You first,” I said. “No you.” “Alright. I was just thinking that Five Iron Frenzy kind of makes me believe in God again. Maybe being a Christian... Read more

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2014-01-02T18:57:24-06:00

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“Turn and Face the Strange”

Last updated on: January 2, 2014 at 6:57 pm By Sarah Moon

I got married this past August and moved from Michigan to Ohio. When I did this, I attempted to bring along my cat, Smeagol, who had been living at my parents house his entire life. He didn’t like it. He was confused by his surroundings. He was afraid of our other cat, Pickle. He was sad that he no longer could go outside without a leash. He didn’t like the neighbor kids. And so he kind of gave up... Read more

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2013-12-20T18:08:49-06:00

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

Last updated on: December 20, 2013 at 6:08 pm By Sarah Moon

On December 4th, the editors at Jesus Radicals chose to publish a post that left me baffled for awhile. I had to read it multiple times to make sure it wasn’t a joke, and double check the website to make sure I hadn’t accidentally ended up on a satire site. But nope. This post was real life. It shared an anonymous woman’s story of walking past a calendar kiosk, seeing those sexy calendars that feature a different woman in a... Read more

2013-12-19T07:26:25-06:00

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#PlanetCCM: Relient K And Using CCM To Sell Sexism

Last updated on: December 19, 2013 at 7:26 am By Sarah Moon

Content Note: Victim Blaming, Body Shaming Dianna E. Anderson is hosting a synchroblog this week about contemporary Christian music (CCM) and how it affected the lives of those who grew up with it. I’ve already written one post on the subject explaining that, because of my ultra conservative upbringing, I wasn’t the world’s largest CCM fan. Relient K was one of only two Christian bands that I ever ended up liking (Five Iron Frenzy being the other). I have a special place in my... Read more

2013-12-17T22:17:46-06:00

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#PlanetCCM: When Planet IFB has no CCM

Last updated on: December 17, 2013 at 10:17 pm By Sarah Moon

Dianna Anderson, my friend and fellow blogger, is hosting a synchroblog on contemporary Christian music (CCM) until the end of December. In her post announcing the synchroblog, she states “So here is our challenge: write a blog post about how CCM affected your life.” At first, I planned to participate in this synchroblog by doing what I’m best at: analyzing Christian dating books. I was going to analyze the book The Complex Infrastructure Known as the Female Mind, which is based on... Read more

2013-12-10T17:51:12-06:00

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

Last updated on: December 10, 2013 at 5:51 pm By Sarah Moon

As regular readers know, I’ve recently read the Christian marriage book, Love and Respect (which was supposed to be included in my “You Are Not Your Own” series, but had to be cut due to time constraints), and have been discussing it here in blog posts and on Twitter. The big theme of the book–the one from which the title is derived–is author Dr. Emerson Eggerichs’ theory that a man’s primary need is respect, and a woman’s primary need is love. Eggerichs’... Read more

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