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February 2015

February 25, 2015

“Damaged Goods” Has Something For Everyone

Full disclosure: Dianna Anderson is a close friend of mine, and has been since before...

October 2014

October 10, 2014

Liberating Liturgies: Virgin Mary and the Purity Myth

I have some more thoughts on Liberating Liturgies for you today. I'm going to keep...

September 2014

September 12, 2014

Purity Culture Doesn’t Want Men To Stop Getting Sex: It Wants Women To Stop Getting Power

Yesterday, I stumbled across an interesting blog post by David Murrow of "Church For Men." Interesting...

July 2014

July 14, 2014

Lauren Winner’s Real Sex, and the Church’s Responsibility to Single Parents

If you’ve been following this blog for any amount of time, you’ll know I have...

May 2014

May 19, 2014

Modest Is Hottest: A Guest Post for No Shame Movement

Today, I'm over at No Shame Movement sharing my story about growing up in Christian purity...

March 2014

March 05, 2014

The Answer To Sexual Shame is Not MORE Sexual Shame, Carson T. Clark

[Content Note: Sexual and Spiritual Abuse] When I was 16, I dated an abuser who...

December 2013

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 07, 2013

The Magical Marriage Switch

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

October 2013

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...

September 2013

September 23, 2013

“You Are Not Your Own:” Is Rape Just Another “Sexual Sin?”

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

August 2013

August 01, 2013

“You Are Not Your Own:” Unmarried Women Belong to Their Parents

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

July 2013

July 26, 2013

I don’t know, why do you tell your daughters to dress modestly?

Trigger Warning for Modesty Culture B.S. and Benevolent Sexism. Also, I used more swear words...

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...

June 2013

June 28, 2013

Guidelines for a holistic sexual ethic, part 3

If you haven't read my other two posts on sexual ethics, I suggest you do...

June 25, 2013

Guidelines for a holistic sexual ethic, part 2

The other day, I talked about how I've noticed over the past few months many...

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...

November 2012

November 13, 2012

“Progressive” Christianity and Premarital Sex

Almost exactly one year ago, I read an article on Relevant Magazine that made me...

September 2012

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"...