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February 2014

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...

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...

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...

December 07, 2013

The Magical Marriage Switch

[Content Note: Marital Sexual Coercion] Purity culture Christians like to think of marriage as something...

December 05, 2013

Who’s Afraid of the Baby Jesus?

Content note: brief mentions of child abuse, Christian patriarchy, Sovereign Grace Ministries I remember a...

November 2013

November 27, 2013

What if God cares more about sexism than about how much you masturbate?

"You may think your sins don't hurt anyone...but it hurts GOD." If you grew up in...

November 25, 2013

Gender Justice and the Christ/Church Dichotomy

Last week I spent way too much of my time reading through and thinking over...

November 23, 2013

Complementarianism is a scam.

I'm still reading through the book Love and Respect by Dr. Emerson Eggerichs. Dr. Eggerichs is, obviously,...

November 21, 2013

What “Love and Respect” and “Fireproof” Teach Abusers and their Victims

Content Note: Descriptions of Abuse, Abuse Apologism Ever since we started dating, my husband Abe...

November 09, 2013

Must Reads!

Dig Deep: Beyond Lean In by bell hooks Sandberg’s work would not have captured the...

November 06, 2013

Privilege in Christian Pacifism: Privileged Pacifism’s Worldview Problem

This is my fourth, and final (probably...for now at least) piece on some of the...

November 01, 2013

Privilege in Christian Pacifism: What Counts as Violence?

This is my third piece in a series about the problems that privilege brings to...

October 2013

October 28, 2013

Embodied Faith is a Faith I Can Live With

Today, I'm guest posting at Suzannah Paul's blog on the topic of Embodied Faith. This...

October 27, 2013

Privilege in Christian Pacifism: Fight the Systems, Not the Survivors

This is the second post in a short series I've been working on about the...

October 23, 2013

Privilege in Christian Pacifism: My Life is Not Your Thought Exercise

I wrote this post a few days ago and had it scheduled for today, but...

October 17, 2013

I watched John Piper and Douglas Wilson Talk About “Homosexuality, Abortion, and Race” for TWO HOURS

(Update: Now with 100% more Ron Swanson gifs, inspired by my Facebook friend Neal) Pray...

October 16, 2013

On Being A “Liberal Fundamentalist”

Lately I've noticed that many liberal Christians do this thing where they accuse other liberal...

October 09, 2013

Resurrection and the Surviving God

Content Note: brief description of a suicide attempt This past year, around Easter, I planned...

October 05, 2013

Once Upon a Cheap Hotel Room

Content Note: Brief Mentions of Rape/Sexual Abuse [Disclaimer: This is a story of my personal...

October 03, 2013

“You Are Not Your Own:” Wrapping Things Up

This post is part of a series called“You Are Not Your Own,” focusing on rape and...

September 2013

September 27, 2013

Must Reads!

Here are some important and/or interesting recent posts from around the blogosphere. Also, as always,...

September 26, 2013

Rape Culture: It’s Not Just For Christian Dating Books!

Content Note: Rape Culture As I wrote my You Are Not Your Own series over...

September 25, 2013

When churches hurt children

Content Note: Child Abuse, Spanking I've followed Stuff Fundies Like for years now. It's been...