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What If Singleness Isn’t Failure?
By: Krysti Wilkinson | June 5, 2019
No one says the word “failure” out loud, of course. No one would dare. But when marriage is the ideal that everyone is working toward, anything that falls short feels like you did something wrong.
Single. Dating. Female. Pastor: 5 Things I Want the Church to Know
By: Alicia McClintic | June 5, 2019
Recently, I was invited to participate in a panel on singleness at a Christian conference. I shared my experience as a single woman pastor and how single clergy can feel isolated in a church culture where marriage is the default. It was the first time since university that I had an honest, direct, public conversation [...]
Welcome to the Jungle: The Dating Adventures of a Fifty-Something Egalitarian
By: Cindy J. Hurd | June 5, 2019
It is crucial that we women who don’t fit into the church’s too-neat “happily ever after” narrative share our stories. Because God sees our struggles and the church should too.
Smart Women and Fragile Men: How Patriarchy Shapes Identity and Romance
By: Tim Krueger | June 5, 2019
Do men want to date smart women? This was the question behind a 2015 study published by the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.1 What the study learned is that men like the idea of dating women who are smarter than them, but when they meet an actual woman who fits the profile, they suddenly become much [...]
Jacob, Esau, and What It Means to Be a "Good Man"
By: Jonathan Schut | June 5, 2019
The church’s passion for helping men become “better men” would likely be better served by encouraging men to become better humans and better Christians.
Love Poem from Joseph
By: H. Edgar Hix | June 5, 2019
Your life will be my life, and my life yours. Your son will be my son, his Father my Father.
It’s Time for a Sexual Ethic Jesus Might Have Actually Preached
By: Lyndsey Medford | June 5, 2019
Consent: a word so bland I once found it almost ugly. Why would I base my framework for romantic relationships on a word as flippant and perfunctory as a waiver to have my photo taken? Bodies and relationships are deeply important to me as a Christian. Naturally, sex is also deeply important to me. Even [...]
A Tale of Two Rapes: What Tamar and Bathsheba Teach Us About Power, Consent, and Sexual Violence
By: Erin Moniz | June 5, 2019
While it is not addressed nearly enough from the pulpit, Scripture has important information about power, patriarchy, and sexual rhetoric. When we miss these elements in reading the Bible, we are more likely to misinterpret what we see in the world around us.
5 Purity Culture Myths and Why They Are False Promises
By: Camden Morgante | May 29, 2019
I was raised in Christian purity culture. I proudly wore my “True Love Waits” ring. I read Joshua Harris’s Christian cult classic, I Kissed Dating Goodbye. And today, I’m a psychologist and a vocal critic of purity culture.
My Pastor Was A Woman and It Meant Everything to Me
By: Rachel Asproth | May 22, 2019
For three wonderful years, my pastor was a woman. And it meant everything to me.