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September 2012

September 16, 2012

Losing my purity…ring.

Hi friends! I'm over at Love, Joy, Feminism today talking about purity rings. My cousin...

September 12, 2012

John Shore on IFB survivors and my journey toward healing

This piece at John Shore's blog just awakened all kinds of emotions for me: In...

September 06, 2012

“A New Creation:” Christianity and trans* rights

Before I start this blog post, some definitions for anyone not familiar with trans* issues!...

September 04, 2012

Unseduced and Unshaken: A Book Review

The following is a book review of Rosalie de Rosset's book, Unseduced and...

August 2012

August 24, 2012

The politics of forgiveness.

When Jesus was walking around on earth, in between turning water into wine and chillin'...

August 17, 2012

A new recipe for humble pie

I once read a manifesto by the anti-feminist True Women Movement that stated as one...

August 10, 2012

Dan Cathy’s lifestyle.

A week and a half after the infamous Chick-fil-A Day, this quote by Rick...

August 04, 2012

Intangible Christianity

I was raised to believe that salvation was a shadow of things to come. An...

July 2012

July 28, 2012

Mother-Father God

I'm still reading through Sexism and God-Talk by Rosemary Radford Ruether, and seriously, y'all, this book is...

July 27, 2012

Is patriarchy idolatry?

I've been reading feminist theology lately and learning to view Christianity from angles that I...

July 10, 2012

On Cornerstone…

I spent last Friday at the Christian music festival, Cornerstone, and I saw some interesting...

June 2012

June 27, 2012

No Experience Necessary?

If you wanted an expert opinion on something, usually you'd ask someone with experience on...

June 25, 2012

Guest Post at Travis Mamone’s blog!

Hey y'all! I wrote a guest post for Travis Mamone on fragile faith that can't...

June 23, 2012

Same ol’ story.

Trigger warnings for sexual assault. "Once upon a time, there was a girl who was...

June 20, 2012

Why I believe (by someone who shouldn’t)–A guest post by Travis Mamone

I hope you all enjoyed Abe Kobylanski's guest post yesterday. Today, Travis Mamone discusses why he...

June 19, 2012

What makes a good daddy–A guest post by Abe Kobylanski

I'm going to be publishing a couple of guest posts this week from some great...

May 2012

May 26, 2012

The church needs to do a better job of talking about sex, and it knows it.

The evangelical church (in general--every time I paint the church in broad strokes like this...

May 21, 2012

Can you tell the difference?

An apparently all-powerful entity that crushes all those who rebel... ...that excessively blesses some while...

May 10, 2012

Not them. Us.

This week, Amendment One passed in North Carolina. We all know this by now, I'm...

April 2012

April 16, 2012

Relevant Magazine, Hugo Schwyzer, and a thing called grace

Trigger warnings for rape, abuse, stalking I believe in a thing called grace. Really, I...

March 2012

March 22, 2012

Our Mother who art in heaven…

I'm trying this new thing where I don't just think of God as a man....

February 2012

February 22, 2012

Veiled Muslim women and revolutionary modesty

I saw this floating around Facebook: Could it be, I wonder, that for a Muslim...

February 17, 2012

Women matter.

I was at a rock concert last week and a stranger felt me up. I...

February 02, 2012

Tell us we’re not strong enough. But you’re wrong.

Some people out there say that Christianity is for men, because our God came to...

January 2012

January 29, 2012

Rape does NOT equal sex, Jeff Bethke!

Trigger Warnings: We're talking about rape again today. A couple weeks ago, when the "Jesus vs....

January 27, 2012

Sometimes you fight. Sometimes you pray for peace.

It's been a rough week for many of us survivors of rape. Some of the...

January 26, 2012

Rape culture, Relevant Magazine, and other things that make me want to swear a lot

Trigger warnings: rape, and rape enabling Some of the responses to Joe Paterno's death were triggering...

January 25, 2012

Mark Driscoll, spiritual abuse, and fluffy bunnies…

We're going to talk about Mark Driscoll today on the blog. I know that, for...

January 23, 2012

When I went to an Episcopal Church

Abe and I didn't know much about the Episcopal Church when we went there yesterday...

January 13, 2012

It’s not a religion, it’s a relationship?

When I was growing up, and people asked about my religion, I would parrot the...