In the church I grew up in, dance was frowned upon. It was seen as seduction and a gateway to premarital sex. When the Christian rock movement made it to our church, I recall being encouraged by youth group leaders […]
Inside each of us is a dark emotional self we are deeply trying to ignore. But the more we ignore her, the more havoc she will wreak. Today She Showed Up With Bells On I recently moved to Barbados to be […]
Over the past few weeks, I have been having candid conversations with women about purity culture and their thoughts on how it affected their understanding of women’s bodies and sexuality. One theme that continues to pop up is the objectification […]
I’m reading Chanel Miller’s book Know My Name, and although I’m only a few pages in, I am already inspired to reflect on the trauma of assault, and how we share it as women. Quick update: Who is Chanel Miller? […]
I have been thinking a lot about Jerry Falwell Jr. He is currently experiencing a similar difficult path many students at Liberty and other Christian schools have journeyed down. The one where our personal sexual lives become fair game for […]
In his text About the City of God Against the Pagans, St. Augustine dives into a bitter analysis of the human body and sexuality. Later, Thomas Aquinas picks up similar rhetoric in Summa Theologica. However, neither church father denies the […]
Church tradition has a habit of making the divine male. While the Bible describes God as father and uses male pronouns to describe God, there are definite feminine descriptions of the divine. These images found in the Bible and historical […]
I have been deconstructing for about ten years and am just now questioning how I understand salvation. And quiet frankly it pisses me off! I started analyzing salvation a few months ago, when it was introduced in my Christology class. […]
