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 […]
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 […]
Not once did it occur to me that my aversion to sex was anything other than godliness. I’m not normally a person who watches TED talks. I want to be, but the idea of committing myself to something educational when I could be watching videos of dogs is a hard sell. When a Facebook friend […]
