Blessing a Cultural Threshold
A threshold is a place of letting go of an old identity and waiting on a new identity to emerge. It is a liminal moment when the sacred is being born in us, a time of unravelling and slowly reknitting back together.
Moving from Exclusion to Embrace in the Gender Conversation
My hope is that this work will become a resource and a way to respond, understanding very well that there’s still a whole lot more to unravel.
Patriarchy and the Gender of God
This ought to disturb us on a theological level alone. Why are we using language about a non-gendered or gender-expansive God that makes us view God in accordance with deeply ingrained notions of binary gender?
Beyond Church In-Fighting
The more passionately you believe in something, the more tempting it is to behave badly in its defense.
How Biology (and the Bible) Breaks the Binary of Human Sexuality
Nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God.
Male and Female: One Image, One Purpose
MAR 26, 2014 | BY: MIMI HADDAD -- Have you ever wondered why, when a friend announces they’re expecting a child, your first thought is...
Alexia Salvatierra Dishes on “The Big Lie” and Peter Heltzel Sings Songs of Freedom
JAN 13, 2014 | BY: MARGOT STARBUCK -- As a Christian who, for decades, has loved Jesus and loved justice, it struck me as odd that Faith...
A Year of Biblical Womanhood: Playful, Earnest God-Wrestling with Rachel Held Evans
BY: MORGAN GUYTON -- As an evangelical Christian growing up in the deep South, Rachel Held Evans was surrounded...
Why Gender Hierarchy Makes No Biblical Sense to Me
My wife and I decided to do something bold for our wedding. Each of us preached while the other person washed our feet, rotating halfway through the sermon. The text we preached on was the controversial Ephesi...
Bible Translation Debates: The Challenge of Changing Language
Have you ever noticed how every day language is used to manipulate and shape rather than describe reality? Here is one example. I used to swim several mornings a week, and as I walked from the locker room to...