Ephesians 5:22“Wives, submit to your husbands…” Where It’s Often Cited: rhetoric around refusal to ordain women; fundamentalist premarital counseling, marriage retreats and/or women’s retreats, weddings, etc. In fact, a friend … Continue reading Ephesians and Submission
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Dubious Double Standards: When Purity Culture Gives Men Free Passes
Purity rings, abstinence pledges, courting— Evangelical Christianity has a particular and peculiar stance on human sexuality. If you’re like me, you grew up surrounded by this “Purity Culture,” which relies … Continue reading Dubious Double Standards: When Purity Culture Gives Men Free Passes
Chapter 14: What Paul Probably Didn’t Say About Women
Jessi and I stared at the verses. We had both read those words in isolation many times before. We had wrestled with them and responded to them already, but they … Continue reading Chapter 14: What Paul Probably Didn’t Say About Women
Chapter 11: Women & Men, Bread & Wine
Paul has spent several chapters now talking about meat sacrificed to idols— a practical issue with larger implications for community and belief. Similarly, in chapters 11 through 14, Paul goes … Continue reading Chapter 11: Women & Men, Bread & Wine
On Inclusion: Wonder Woman, Bill Maher, Rights, and Privilege
“One of the things about whiteness is that it wants to be present everywhere. It wants to participate in every single thing, and this idea that there are some things … Continue reading On Inclusion: Wonder Woman, Bill Maher, Rights, and Privilege