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Longtime readers will by now know that I have a self-acknowledged “rebellious streak”I don’t think it’s a bad thing, as Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich said: “Well behaved women seldom make history.” This International Women’s Day I’ve been thinking about all the disobedient and rebellious women who challenged unjust male authority in the bible: …
Bekah Legg from Restored often talks about the story in Judges 19. For those of you unfamiliar with the story, it’s the story of a horrific act of violence against a woman which ends with all the people of Israel, horrified by what they saw, coming together and saying “Just imagine! We must do something! …
“GO AND SIN NO MORE!” Demands Jesus, wagging his finger at yet another woman who couldn’t keep her legs together. At least that seems to be how some modern day evangelical men read the story of “The woman caught in adultery.” At least once a week someone on the internet will tell me that I …
I posted on my social media yesterday that Alex Pretti displayed ‘Jesus Masculinity’ by putting himself between armed men carrying out oppressive law enforcement and a woman, just like when Jesus put himself between armed men and the woman caught in adultery. I said this is what real masculinity looks like. Men using their power …
While shepherds watched their flocks by night, all seated on the ground, an angel of the Lord came down, and glory shone around. “Fear not,” said he for mighty dread had seized their troubled mind “glad tidings of great joy I bring to you and all mankind. They’re so frightened by Glory. It makes me …
In the last decade I’ve been busily de-constructing. Regular readers of my blog will know that as each year passes another core doctrine I held onto tightly is examined, turned over, and often discarded. We’ve discussed atonement, salvation, hell, repentance: what it all means really, I no longer believe in a literal hell, or that …
Have you ever felt like you’re not good enough? Not good enough to do your job?Not good enough for your friends? Not good enough for your partner?Not good enough for your church? Not a good enough Christian?Not good enough for God? Well I’m here to tell you that’s not how God sees you. There are …
I’ve known God for around forty years now, but can anyone ever really know God?God is unfathomable, in many ways unknowable, at least by humanity, at least as we are now. In this life we’re all just trying to figure God out as best we can, to know God as best we can. But God …
In 2013 I suddenly found myself on the margins of my faith. Prior to this I’d been your average “conservative, evangelical Christian woman”: married, three kids, husband I submitted to, Church on Sunday morning, back home to mow the lawn of our nice suburban semi-detached house in the afternoon. Midweek my husband and I would …
“A major problem in evangelicalism is that the question is never asked ‘does this theology cause harm?’ but rather they ask ‘is it true?’ Once an evangelical has determined a belief to be ‘true’ harm caused is irrelevant and can be blamed on moral shortcomings of the victim rather than blamed on the harmful theology …