Thanks for visiting the blog! This is a space where I write about issues relating to faith, spirituality, and culture. I often focus on the roles of women in the…
Several years ago I sat down with a prominent male pastor in my community, who also happened to be a former seminary professor of mine. I wanted to get his…
Our church meets in a school. Monday through Friday students show up with back packs full of books to learn about history, music, science, math, art, literature, writing, and foreign…
There are experiences that I have as a woman in ministry that my male colleagues don’t. Some are obvious, others are subtle. I was recently at a worship service that…
I’ve been on the email list for Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary for quite a while now. I suspect someone added me to their mailing list as a joke. I don’t…
The following is an excerpt from a post I wrote that appeared in the Christians for Biblical Equality publication, Arise. You can click HERE to read the entire post on…
There has been a blog post making its way around the internet about men preferring debt-free virgins without tattoos. I’m not going to link to it, because I see no…
I was sitting towards the back of a large lecture hall in a seminary class on Paul. The professor stood at the front of the class and said, “I understand…
This article originally appeared in Mutuality Magazine, the print publication of Christians for Biblical Equality International. The word “submission” elicits a strong and often negative reaction in our culture. For…
Author and speaker Sarah Bessey started a twitter hashtag called #55ThingsOnlyChristianWomenHear. Twitter users tweeted quotes spoken to Christian women, and used the hashtag to group them all together. There were hundreds…