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January 2014

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...

December 2013

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 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 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 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 09, 2013

Resurrection and the Surviving God

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

August 2013

August 26, 2013

If Jesus is Lord, then Caesar is not.

Last night at church, my pastor talked about the phrase "Jesus is Lord," and what...

August 05, 2013

Maybe God is a “bitch”

In the months following my decision to leave fundamentalism for good, I began to shy...

July 2013

July 22, 2013

Racism, Dehumanization, and Trayvon Martin

Trigger Warning: Racism, dehumanization, discussion of racial violence and the George Zimmerman case I've spent...

July 15, 2013

“You Are Not Your Own:” Men Are Animals

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

July 08, 2013

Privilege, oppression, and being “nice”

Imagine you're standing there, minding your own business, and all of a sudden someone steps...

July 06, 2013

From the archives: On privilege and taking the stairs

This post was originally published on February 13, 2013 Many people think we shouldn't talk...

May 2013

May 16, 2013

Tony Jones, Peter Rollins, and the trend of “don’t call me racist!”

I've noticed a trend among white, straight, academic cis men in so-called progressive or emergent...

March 2013

March 29, 2013

The cross and radical activism

The idea that Jesus chose, out of his own free will, to go to the...

March 26, 2013

Crucifixion and Liberation

[Trigger warnings for abuse, rape, and violence against oppressed groups] I recently wrote a blog...

March 05, 2013

On equality, humility, and privilege: A response to Matt Appling

When I first began blogging, one blogger that I both read and respected was Matt...

February 2013

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 13, 2013

On privilege and taking the stairs

Many people think we shouldn't talk about privilege. Usually, those people who say we shouldn't...

January 2013

January 31, 2013

It won’t be their world anymore: Universalism with boudaries

I really don't know what I believe about the afterlife. Ever since I gave up...

January 23, 2013

A quote for today…

I'm having trouble today, writing words. When I try to set the words free through...

November 2012

November 21, 2012

Their caricatures of me aren’t me.

Language is powerful, and so, when we find ourselves with enemies, we use their own...

October 2012

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 18, 2012

Whose knowledge? Whose power?

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

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...