Yesterday I read with disbelief as a flood of women replied on Tony Jones’ blog, when he asked the question “Where are the Women?” Hundreds flooded his blog expressing how frustrated they were with not being listened to by him, by men, in the Church, in the blogosphere. They also said they didn’t have time for blogs […]
{reflecting on the past year and turning 46}
I have come far. I have run hard. I feel strong. I am proud of my learning to harness perseverance and need. Twenty seven pounds ago, I hated myself and today I feel lithe and strong. All this, accomplished with an iron will, though a little obsessively neurotic at times. I know, I am strong. And this is […]
{Above all Love One Another: A confession on being an LGBTQ Ally & a Christian}
unless we’re all free, none of us are free. Kathy Escobar a pastor and writer, challenged me with these words on her blog this week: “i’m a nut case for equality. you hear me talking a lot about gender equality but that’s just because it’s a critical starting place. when half of the population of the […]
On Motherhood, On Children
I’ll be the first to admit it. I fight daily with the little devil on my shoulder. That being tells me lies. I feel it so vividly – the tensions of being a stay at home mom, a lack of validation in the culture at large for motherhood or stay at home parents, and the […]
To Lent or not to Lent, that is the Question
After spending the evening watching the Grammys and tweeting my snarky thoughts, last night my dreams were in Tweet format. Needless to say it was a long night. And when I woke this morning I was more than a little disturbed by it. I got to thinking about technology’s power in my life. Earlier this week, I […]
On Doubt & Growing up in the Church of (women) “Shouldn’t. Wouldn’t. Couldn’t.”
My daughter pushes me. She demands. Before coffee and time to wake up in the morning, she throws out at me like spittle in my face a withering challenge. She says, about my faith, my beliefs, something like …. You follow some concocted foolishness, if only to comfort yourself, to be a part of something, […]
Imagine my Surprise. I read the Bible “Wrong.”
I never knew that there was a right or wrong way of reading the Bible. I have always thought, naively I will now acknowledge, that all that mattered was how one responded to what they read in the Bible. Nope, I’ve been all wrong. I don’t know where I learned this idea either. I’ve absorbed a way of looking […]
Why I am Afraid to Read the (entire) Bible
Here’s the honest and mortifying truth. I have never read the entire Bible, whole. I have studied various books at length, sometimes on my own but more often with a group of others. But I have never opened the whole of the great book of God’s WORD, Old and New Testaments, and soaked it in […]
What is lost when the Church echoes with the sound of women’s silence?
What is lost when the church echoes with the sound of women’s silence? In many respects I am too strident– because of my lack of “role”, my current joblessness lacks authority, lack of higher degrees, perhaps this is why I find myself speaking out more often, and more loudly. I have finally accepted that one cannot […]
We can no longer take their word for it. [A response to Scot McKnight’s Junia essay]
“Greet Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen and my fellow prisoners, who are outstanding among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me.”–Paul writing in Romans 16:7 This is life affirming and beautiful, I thought, as I read for the first time in my life (and after having grown up in the church) that Junia, […]
“Why The Silence?” Forgive me the Cynicism … (on Women in the Church)
I don’t know about you, but when I first read this it shocked and appalled me. During the times of Jesus, the religious leaders prayed at least three times a day and always thanked God for three specific things: Thank God that I am a Jew and not a Gentile. Thank God that I am […]
Men have been talking about men for so long, they don’t even realize it.
I recently wrote about my frustration and confusion with the Church and particularly my church. It seems to me the Church is ignoring the stories of women in the Bible, and historically as artists and theologians, and in the Church worldwide. Now I don’t have history or theological degrees, but it doesn’t take those to […]
