Defending slavery and defending male only leadership in the church and the home use the same hermeneutic. My husband Keith has been writing a series of the deceptive ways that complementarians approach Scripture, and today is the final post in the series. He's looked...
What if complementarians are biased when they read the Bible? We're in the middle of a series my husband Keith has been writing, inspired by the convos he gets into on social media with complementarian and misogynist men about the Bible. He finds they use the same...
Have you ever felt uncomfortable with the treatment of women in the Old Testament? I was recently sent a note from a woman that said this:I've been really seriously struggling as I've been leaving the evangelical church recently and what has spurred a lot of this on...
Do egalitarians just Giving in to Culture? My husband Keith (bless him!) spends an inordinate amount of time on social media arguing with complementarians. And he's noticed some commonalities in their arguments. So he decided to wite a series on the big problems with...
Our approach to the marriage passages about Scripture shows us how we view God. Do we try to find justification for hierarchy and power, or do we look at the bigger picture? My husband Keith spends a lot of his free time engaging on Threads and Facebook with super...
Are wives supposed to be more like Jesus than husbands are? Because that's sure what it can sound like, when authors like Tim and Kathy Keller tell women that Philippians 2--about Jesus taking the form of a servant and becoming nothing--is how women should act in...
I heard such amazing inspirational stories about women in ministry I had to share today! The Atlantic Baptists are a small Baptist denomination in Atlantic Canada, and they've been ordaining women for a few decades now. They recently started a project to preserve the...
We know that the evangelical church has taught horrible things about sex. We know those things have had a horrible impact. And so, how could it be possible that Christians still seem to have better sex than the general population?Over the last few days I've been...
The Institute for Family Studies, a conservative think talk, just published an article claiming that religious people have better and more frequent sex. They published an article in the Atlantic explaining their findings, and a larger 62-page report on their...
Mainline Christians are salt of the earth people. Ever noticed that? They often fill all the volunteer slots at soup kitchens. They do the Christmas and Thanksgiving community giving programs. They volunteer with recent immigrants and refugees. It's often the more...
Is the evangelical church missing the boat when it comes to justice for women? Not just missing the boat theologically by supporting doctrines that subordinate women, but missing the boat in general when it comes to advocating for justice? I think it is. But I don't...
I got up at 6 in the morning to watch Lady Diana Spencer marry Prince Charles Sixteen years later, I watched her funeral three times in succession in one day, starting at 4 in the morning (I was up anyway with a baby who didn't sleep). I have tried to expain to my...
Learning how the sausage is made is not always a pleasant experience. But ignorance isn’t always bliss. And knowing the truth is fascinating, and maturing, and mesmerizing even as it evokes horror and disgust. In the last few years there have been a plethora of books...
Fight, flight, freeze or fawn. Those are the common responses we have to trauma. When we face a threat, our body may go into fight mode. We may try to run away (or desperately want to!). We may freeze, feel unable to do anything. Or we may fawn. That last one is a...
Ever felt like God was your pimp? I know that's an inflammatory statement, but I've heard this sentiment from so many evangelical women that we've interviewed in our research, or from comments and DMs. When sex is something that is degrading, painful, or makes you...