Girls and women are still under tremendous pressure to define themselves and their public identities relationally, in ways that men aren’t. Last year, after a seven-hour drive with a carful of children, I arrived at a hotel where, despite having used my credit card to secure a room, I could not check in. We were […]
Here I am, now knocking on the door of 30, completely alone for the first time in my life—and is it ever terrifying. “You can’t wear that jersey here,” a random kid I meet at a festival warns me, his face deadly serious. It’s about 3am, and we’re halfway through a shared fifth of Colombian […]
Christianity must adapt to a world that no longer considers women subordinate, divorcees immoral, and the LGBT community sinners. Let’s talk about sex, baby. Let’s talk about you and me—and the church. For centuries, the Christian church has had what amounts to a monopoly on Western conversations about sex and marriage. And during this time it […]
