A Letter to Men
Dear Men, A few months ago, a conversation on Twitter got my attention. Using the hashtag #YesAllWomen, women shared incredible and awful stories of ways in which they had been harassed, marginalized,...
View ArticleIs The ‘Women in Ministry’ Question A Gospel Issue?
It’s been a couple of weeks since I sat down at the virtual table at the Passing the Saltshaker blog, where some online friends and I write about Christianity, the church and gender. This week we’re...
View ArticleWomen, Leadership & The Bible
Confession: When I heard that a book called “Women, Leadership and The Bible” had been released, my first thought was “just what we need… ANOTHER pushy book on women in the church.” But this is not...
View ArticleOn Lists of Things That Women Cannot Do (The Problem with John Piper… and Me)
I have a post up at the Pass the Saltshaker blog which is really very uncomfortable for me. My friend Adriel Booker asked for my thoughts on John Piper’s latest podcast, in which he answers the...
View ArticleAsk Me: “Should I go to grad school if I want to be a mom one day?”
Dear Bronwyn, I finished college and have been working for a few years. I love my job, and pursuing graduate school feels like the logical next step for me and had been a part of my original plan. Yet...
View Article‘Get the Girl to Do It’– Thoughts on race, the space race, and gender in...
I got to see an early screening of Hidden Figures (in theaters this Friday) and wrote about it for Christianity Today Women. Here’s the link if you’d like to click right over to read it, and here are...
View ArticleRoll Your Eyes, Brothers and Sisters
I love it when my phone updates its emojis. My favorite of the new bunch? The face palm. This perfectly capture my response when reading (yet another) profoundly unhelpful article by a Christian for...
View ArticleWhat I want from church: the Jesus of the Gospels
I find it ironic that in the midst of the conversation about the undervalued and misunderstood role of women in the church, the church is often still characterized by preaching a message which is...
View ArticleI love you, friend, but I don’t want your essential oils (or leggings, or...
If you’ve been around church women for any length of time, chances are you’ve been invited to some kind of product party: a “no pressure, just-a-bunch-of-girls get together” with food and a...
View ArticleWhen Your Kid Googles You (Take care. Someone’s listening.)
“I looked you up on google,” my daughter said a few weeks ago. I froze, arranging my face as nonchalantly as I could: “Oh really? What did you find?” “You’ve written a LOT of articles,” she observed,...
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