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Joseph Kony is famous. Trayvon Martin is not.
White Evangelical Christians love African children. Two years at Grace College (a predominantly white Grace Brethren college in small town Indiana) taught me that. Students went on missions trips in...
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Whose knowledge? Whose power?
Here’s an interesting quote I found while reading the book Feminist Research Practice, by Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber and Patricia Lina Leavy (emphasis mine): In many societies…knowledge is produced and...
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All of who we are
When I first started dating my now-fiance, I had just recently begun calling myself a feminist. I had just recently begun to look at the way the world around me privileged men and say, “Hey! This isn’t...
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The founding fathers get a free pass. The feminists? Not so much.
Painting by Junius Brutus Stearns It is more than acceptable in our society to quote one of the founding fathers to prove a point. I see liberals and conservatives do this alike, and, even though I...
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A quote for today…
I’m having trouble today, writing words. When I try to set the words free through my fingers, fear reigns them back in. So, today, I’ll share the words of Audre Lorde until I can gather my own. Your...
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Must Reads!
It’s been awhile since I’ve had the time to sit down and post links to my favorite blog posts. So I’m going to catch up today, and share some of my favorite posts from the past 2 or 3 weeks. Enjoy...
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Must reads!
Lots of posts that I want to share this week. I hope you’ll check them out, as they are all important! They discuss a wide variety of topics, from God, to rape culture, to The Wizard of Oz, to...
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Crucifixion and Liberation
[Trigger warnings for abuse, rape, and violence against oppressed groups] Image by Aaron Douglas I recently wrote a blog post for Rachel Held Evans in which I talked about how many popular images of...
View ArticleTony Jones, Peter Rollins, and the trend of “don’t call me racist!”
I’ve noticed a trend among white, straight, academic cis men in so-called progressive or emergent Christianity where calling someone racist, sexist, homophobic, etc. is a bigger problem than the...
View ArticleRacism, Dehumanization, and Trayvon Martin
Trigger Warning: Racism, dehumanization, discussion of racial violence and the George Zimmerman case I’ve spent a few blog posts recently talking about the way that the patriarchal mindsets in some...
View ArticleMaybe God is a “bitch”
In the months following my decision to leave fundamentalism for good, I began to shy away from the idea of God as a God of wrath. No, how could God be wrathful? God is love. God isn’t angry at us. God...
View ArticleI Don’t Care If You Call Yourself A Feminist, Part 1
In my time on the feminist internets, I often hear arguments for why EVERYONE should identify as a feminist. “If you think women are people, congrats, you’re a feminist!” “Quit saying ‘I’m not a...
View ArticleIf Jesus is Lord, then Caesar is not.
Last night at church, my pastor talked about the phrase “Jesus is Lord,” and what that phrase means. After church, a fellow church goer was wanting to start a conversation about what “Jesus is Lord”...
View Article“You Are Not Your Own:” When Metaphors For Sex Sound A Lot Like Like Rape
This post is part of a series called“You Are Not Your Own,” focusing on rape and sexual assault in Christian relationship/dating books Content Note: rape, sexual assault, violent imagery, discussion of...
View ArticleMust Reads!
Here are some important and/or interesting recent posts from around the blogosphere. Also, as always, I will include an adorable picture of one of my cats. Enjoy! “A Statement of Trans-Inclusive...
View ArticleI watched John Piper and Douglas Wilson Talk About “Homosexuality, Abortion,...
(Update: Now with 100% more Ron Swanson gifs, inspired by my Facebook friend Neal) Pray for me, friends. I shall need a few days to recover from this. A couple of weeks ago, I discovered that Douglas...
View ArticlePrivilege in Christian Pacifism: What Counts as Violence?
This is my third piece in a series about the problems that privilege brings to Christian pacifist movements. I’m linking this series up to h00die_R’s synchroblog on the topic–The New Pacifism. Be sure...
View ArticleLove And R-E-S-P-E-C-T
As regular readers know, I’ve recently read the Christian marriage book, Love and Respect (which was supposed to be included in my “You Are Not Your Own” series, but had to be cut due to time...
View Article#PlanetCCM: Relient K And Using CCM To Sell Sexism
Content Note: Victim Blaming, Body Shaming Dianna E. Anderson is hosting a synchroblog this week about contemporary Christian music (CCM) and how it affected the lives of those who grew up with it....
View ArticleWhy Do We Blame the Victim?: We Don’t Want to Face Our Responsibility and...
This is post number two in a series I’m working on about why we tend to blame victims in our society. My church has been covering this topic in it’s latest sermon series (which you can listen to...
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