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Losing my purity…ring.
(Photo credit: Wikipedia) Hi friends! I’m over at Love, Joy, Feminism today talking about purity rings. My cousin gave me a purity ring for Christmas in 2005. She also gave them to several other young...
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A church “building project” that made a difference
Many churches get super excited about building projects. These projects are supposed to represent big changes to the church, new ideas, progress, and relevance. Even the fundamentalist churches I’ve...
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No, REALLY, I’m happy.
Yesterday, I wrote about how, for the first time in a long time, I really do feel happy. And with this cat on my head, how could I not be? Funny, though, how the happier I get the more people insist...
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Must Reads!
It’s been awhile since I’ve had the time to sit down and post links to my favorite blog posts. So I’m going to catch up today, and share some of my favorite posts from the past 2 or 3 weeks. Enjoy...
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Must Reads!
Here are some posts from the past week or so that you simply must read. [Note: Several of these have a trigger warning] Maybe I’m not outraged. I’m exhausted and open and exposed and a lot of other...
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Must reads!
Lots of posts that I want to share this week. I hope you’ll check them out, as they are all important! They discuss a wide variety of topics, from God, to rape culture, to The Wizard of Oz, to...
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Spiritual Abuse Awareness Week: Violences are Connected
IMAGE BY DANI KELLEY Back in February, Sen. Marco Rubio explained why he opposed the Violence Against Women Act: I could not support the final, entire legislation that contains new provisions that...
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Spiritual Abuse Awareness Week: My Guest Post at Rachel Held Evans
IMAGE BY DANI KELLEY Today I’m guest posting at Rachel Held Evans’ blog, talking about abuse and images of God. God is love. I believe that with my whole heart. But what is God? And what is love? We...
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Creationism, Evolution, and Doing Justice to God
I’ve been reading Kenneth Miller’s book Finding Darwin’s God for a class I’m taking. Although I’ve been out of fundamentalism long enough (about two years) for most of this information to be old news...
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God is not really a king.
I’ve been thinking a lot about my deepest held images of God: why do I hold them? Where do they come from? What do they say about the Christian faith I was raised in? What do they say about me? How do...
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