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Roundtable Discussion: Best Books on Gender & Sexuality
So our sexuality series has been something of a victim of my busy fall travel schedule this year, but we pick things up again today with a roundtable discussion meant to help you explore the topic...
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13 Things I Learned About Church History From ‘The Story of Christianity,...
See also: “10 Things I Learned About Church History From ‘The Story of Christianity, Vol. 1’ by Just L. Gonzalez"Last Sunday was Reformation Sunday, which I celebrated by being a know-it-all, thanks...
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My scary airplane story
Fine. I’m ready to tell it. But only because it’s Halloween and you people keep pestering me to spill it…and because maybe this will count as therapy. ***“They have a flight manifest that includes...
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Sunday Superlatives 11/3/2013
IRL…There were no superlatives last week because Dan was busy securing his superlative as BEST HUSBAND OF ALL TIME by surprising me and my parents with last-minute tickets to the Alabama vs. Tennessee...
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Homosexuality, Evangelicalism, and The Danger of a Single Story
My favorite TED talk of all time was delivered by the brilliant Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. It’s entitled “The Danger of a Single Story,” and Adichie, a Nigerian writer, thoughtfully and humorously...
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In which today is a good day....
Today is a good day because today our friend Sarah Bessey releases her beautiful book, Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible's View of Women. And today is a good day because I believe this...
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Ask a (liberal) rabbi…
We’re picking up our “Ask a…” series today with “Ask a (liberal) rabbi….” For this entry, I’m pleased to re-introduce Rabbi Rachel Barenblat, who you will remember wrote an excellent guest post for us...
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Diana Butler Bass thinks I'm wrong (and she's probably right)
Diana Butler Bass is one of the smartest women I know. A historian with a hand on the pulse of contemporary religious culture, I admire her like crazy, so when she expressed some disagreement with my...
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Sunday Superlatives 11/10/13
Around the Blogosphere…Most Persistent: This MouseMost Creative:Whimsical Illustrations Merge with Everyday ObjectsMost Enlightening: David B. Benner with “Love and Fear”“Fear works in such a way that...
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From the Mailbag: Can we teach our children modesty without guilt?
Last week, I received this message from Sharon via my Facebook page: I read with interest some your prior blog posts on modesty and the modesty/purity movement. [See “Elizabeth Smart and Purity...
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Ask a (liberal) rabbi....Response
Last week, you posed some excellent questions to Rabbi Rachel Barenblat as part of our ongoing "Ask a...." interview series, and Rabbi Rachel rose to the occasion with some really thoughtful and...
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On being ‘divisive’….
For writers, tone is a tricky thing to get right. It’s also one of the most important things to get right.And like most writers, sometimes I get tone right and sometimes I get tone wrong. As a...
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The day we made the Berenstain Bears laugh
From Monday:It started after several of you commented on this little piece of Facebook hilarity: Every time I see this list of "things similar to @rachelheldevans", it makes me laugh. Oh, internet....
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Ask a Reformed Pastor…
Photo Credit: David VanderheydenSo I’ve heard from more than a few of my Reformed brother and sisters that I have a bad habit of painting the Reformed tradition with a broad brush (especially when I’m...
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Sunday Superlatives 11/17/13
IRL…Best Conversations/Connections: I had an amazing time at the Q: Women and Calling event in New York City and, to my surprise, left feeling profoundly encouraged about the progress of gender...
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Lament for the Philippines
Today’s post comes to us from Tim Krueger. Tim was born and raised in the Philippines, where his parents served as missionaries with Wycliffe Bible Translators. He is the editor of Christians for...
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Are you being persecuted?
Because this question comes up every holiday season, I thought I'd help everyone out with a handy chart. Thanks to Ryan Richardson for making it look good: See also: "Blessed Are the Entitled?" / "God...
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The Dark Stories (A Tribute to Victims of Violence)
In honor of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, I'm reposting this excerpt from A Year of Biblical Womanhood. "There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of...
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Ask a Reformed Pastor...(Response)
The Reformed tradition is much broader and more diverse than many of us realize, and since we’ve already featured the more conservative Justin Taylor for “Ask a Calvinist…” I thought it was time to...
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2 questions regarding the HHS mandate and religious liberty
Okay, since the HHS mandate is back in the news again, I’ve got two questions: 1. If the owner of a private, for-profit company can make decisions regarding the healthcare coverage of his/her...
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