How Wellness Culture Is About More Than Beauty
The language of wellness isn’t just coded diet culture. It’s also encoded with religious promise.
On Taking Up Space
Like so many evangelical women, I grew up in the shadow of the Proverbs 31 Woman, the faceless ideal of godliness.
The Wounds of Evangelical Purity Culture
In the evangelical community, an "impure" girl or woman isn't just seen as damaged; she's considered dangerous.
A Good Christian Woman…Not That One
Women are messengers from God. Women are prophets. Women are preachers. Women's silence threatens the church and the world.
Reassessing Religion through ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’
Yet, in the fog of Margaret Atwood’s story, I realized that I was being sexualized, just in a different way.
The Damaging Effects of Shame-Based Sex Education: Lessons From Elizabeth Smart
JUNE 10, 2013 | BY: KRISTEN HOWERTON -- While I think that abstinence is a great goal for kids (and one I will encourage for my own), I...