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June 2013

June 08, 2013

God as a woman, seeking out the marginalized

One of the most popular images of God in the Bible is the image of...

June 05, 2013

“You Are Not Your Own” Series: On Traditional Gender Roles and Dehumanization

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

May 2013

May 24, 2013

Is there room for other perspectives in the evangelical conversation against purity culture?

Today, @mslooola, who I follow on the Twitters (#FF her for more great tweets on...

March 2013

March 18, 2013

Spiritual Abuse Awareness Week: Violences are Connected

Back in February, Sen. Marco Rubio explained why he opposed the Violence Against Women Act:...

March 11, 2013

Must reads!

Lots of posts that I want to share this week. I hope you'll check them...

March 02, 2013

Must Reads!

Here are some posts from the past week or so that you simply must read....

February 2013

February 27, 2013

Feminisms Fest: I need feminism because there is no love without justice.

When I heard that Preston Yancey, Danielle Vermeer, and J.R. Goudeau were hosting a three-day blog...

February 23, 2013

On being a female body at a Christian college

[I wrote recently about learning to love my body for Lent. Part of that loving so...

February 21, 2013

Damming up justice: King David, power, and rape

As many of you know, I've been doing research on Christian dating books and their...

February 06, 2013

Objects don’t have sex

I didn't watch the Superbowl, this year (or...any year) but conversations about Beyoncé's halftime show...

January 2013

January 20, 2013

Best of the week!

I didn't have time to do a "best of the week" post last week, so...

January 17, 2013

Why Chris Rosebrough is Wrong: A Case for Ordaining Women (Guest Post By Travis Mamone)

Here are some thoughts from my friend Travis Mamone (who blogs about cool stuff like...

January 16, 2013

No one’s Messiah

To Christian men and the churches they attend: I am not your Christ. Churches may...

January 11, 2013

Some humans are more equal than others: John Piper on spousal abuse and submission

I'm doing a series on complementarianism's manipulative claims at promoting equality. You can read the...

January 09, 2013

Some Humans Are More Equal Than Others: Joshua Harris on Male Authority and Female Submission

I'm doing a short series on some examples of the way that complementarians claim to...

January 07, 2013

Some humans are more equal than others: Introduction

Complementarian evangelical leaders like to pretend that their view of women is something other than...

December 2012

December 31, 2012

I’m happy.

I'm happy. It feels good to say that and really mean it. Life has been...

November 2012

November 20, 2012

A new hope

Today, I checked my phone compulsively for tweets from Connor Park and Dianna Anderson, who...

November 03, 2012

The founding fathers get a free pass. The feminists? Not so much.

It is more than acceptable in our society to quote one of the founding fathers...

October 2012

October 23, 2012

We have it “so good.”

What if I told you a story about a Muslim girl from the Middle East?...

October 13, 2012

Feminism and abstinence

bell hooks states in her book Feminist Theory, From Margin to Center: One aspect of sexual...

October 11, 2012

Men who think consent is overrated are not good men.

TRIGGER WARNING: Rape (thanks to Ryan Stauffer for bringing this to my attention) Recently, The...

October 06, 2012

All of who we are

When I first started dating my now-fiance, I had just recently begun calling myself a...

September 2012

September 28, 2012

A follow-up on complementarianism and rape culture

{trigger warning for rape} This is a follow up to my recent blog post, "Complimentarianism's...

September 25, 2012

Complementarianism’s ugly relationship with rape

[Trigger warning: rape apologism] [Update: I've changed some mentions of "evangelical leaders" to "complementarian leaders"...

September 18, 2012

Whose knowledge? Whose power?

Here's an interesting quote I found while reading the book Feminist Research Practice, by Sharlene...

September 16, 2012

Losing my purity…ring.

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

September 10, 2012

Esther, Mark Driscoll, and using rape to control women

[Trigger warning for rape apologism and Mark Driscoll quotes] Growing up, the book of Esther was...

July 2012

July 27, 2012

Is patriarchy idolatry?

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

July 19, 2012

Rape: A Punishment for Egalitarians?

[Trigger warnings for rape and abuse] Sometimes, conservative Christians are able to cover up the...