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July 2013

July 11, 2013

Bebbington, schmebbington: Evangelicals’ politicized animosity to gays and women is not a media invention

Theological definitions don't matter. You will never be branded as "controversial" or banished from the...

July 11, 2013

7 things @ 11 o’clock (7.11)

High times with Lawrence Welk. Justices packing heat. Dianna Anderson channels Nina Turner. Old Man...

July 04, 2013

Postcards from the culture wars

Jesus Christ, pugilist; Big Mountain Jesus; the Cardinal has long paid for contraception; reaching out...

June 2013

June 27, 2013

The other side of the ‘evangelical left’ (part 1)

David Swartz's book "Moral Minority: The Evangelical Left in an Age of Conservatism" is a...

June 26, 2013

Texas women stand up to bullying

Sen. Wendy Davis planned to filibuster the bill, but its supporters weren't worried. Texas' rules...

June 06, 2013

Paprocki vs. the Pope, on ’emotional … anecdotal stories’

Francis: "I do not like it when people speak about tough situations in an academic...

June 06, 2013

Tabitha, Lydia and the menace of female breadwinners threatening our ‘complementary relationships’

Erick Erickson: "Liberals who defend [women working] and say it is not a bad thing...

June 04, 2013

How patriarchy ‘calls into question the validity’ of a sacrament

Catholic Answers: "The reason why the question 'Who gives this woman to this man?' never...

June 02, 2013

Postcards from the culture wars

A long due apology from an ex-ex-gay; still waiting for a non-sectarian argument against equality;...

May 2013

May 10, 2013

‘The belief that they’re entitled to control women’s bodies’

Siccing the modesty police on Beyonce won't help to stop sex trafficking. Beyonce isn't part...

May 07, 2013

Postcards from the culture war

Praying that someone shoots the Satanic baby-killers; policies "marked by a deep mistrust of the...

April 2013

April 18, 2013

‘Quench not the spirit’ still not white evangelicals’ favorite Bible verse

Same 2-to-1 split. Not the same response. When the one-third minority favors patriarchy, its views...

April 10, 2013

Smart people saying smart things

Sandra M. Schneiders on why God is not a patriarch; Hillary Clinton on why empowering...

April 10, 2013

Luckily, this is not difficult

A collection of Wednesday-morning links around a common theme. Unfortunately, this bunch tends more toward...

March 2013

March 15, 2013

So’s your mother

I seem to have collected a bunch of links having to do with gender and...

March 14, 2013

It’s not your ‘stance,’ but who you’re standing with

When abuse occurs within an institution, it threatens that institution. If our primary allegiance is...

March 13, 2013

‘Stop it, punish it, corral people, shame people’

That does seem like a rather harsh accusation. But in my defense, there's one good...

March 09, 2013

The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act tests the integrity of the pro-life movement

This legislation matters first of all because it would protect the rights of pregnant workers....

March 06, 2013

UNC, the Vatican and Sovereign Grace Ministries: When PR trumps concern for victims

If anything good might have come from the ongoing horror show of the Catholic sex-abuse...

March 06, 2013

Christian college fires woman for not getting abortion

What happened was an unmarried employee of San Diego Christian College turned up pregnant, so...

March 03, 2013

‘Luckily, this is not difficult’

Some weekend links on how self-destructive it is for the church to be working with...

February 2013

February 28, 2013

Saying the F-word in church

What makes this extraordinary is partly the substance of this conversation, but more than that...

February 26, 2013

Polygamy is biblical, is it therefore moral?

Polygamy is not an obscure feature in the Bible. It starts early, with Lamech, and...

February 21, 2013

To truly be ‘pro-family,’ you have to be pro-worker

We have surrendered the necessary task of advocating on behalf of families to "pro-family" clerics...

February 21, 2013

Felonious nipples, VAWA & stories hidden in plain sight

North Carolina plan says show a breast, lose the right to vote; the bad old...

February 13, 2013

‘Who seeks kindness over control’

A Prayer for Men and a collection of Wednesday morning links, including: gender reports from...

February 10, 2013

The problem with evangelical sexual ethics is that we haven’t got any

Do we need a "new" Christian sexual ethic? Well, yes. But not because the old...

February 09, 2013

Why ‘pro-life’ Christians should support Title IX

Pregnant women have advocates in feminist groups like the National Women's Law Center. In theory,...

February 07, 2013

The revolution will be blogged: Evangelical women challenging purity culture

I don't have any special insight or commentary to add to the posts listed below,...

February 04, 2013

John Piper’s influence is, he says, ‘irrespective of competency’

How does someone like John Piper say such clownish things and yet become so influential...