–Pastor’s wife problems: Getting slapped on the behind after your husband’s sermon while the congregant calls out, “Good message from Kris today”. Almost…
My siblings and I were setting the table when we heard an echo from the kitchen. “Honey, please put down that chain saw…
Sometimes I still believe the myths. You know, the soft rumblings of that devilish voice that says, “you don’t have much to offer…
As I listened to the pastor of my new church describe the insults and attacks he and the elders had endured after they…
In church leadership, men occupy a position of default; women occupy a position of difference. When we open a Word doc on our…
I should have realized it long ago; I should have recognized the signs. But I didn’t. I suppose I was so lost in…
Shaping future pastors doesn’t begin with college, or even a call. It begins at birth. It begins with parents and church families who…
I was a freshman in college and I believed that I needed to take the backseat of Christianity. I was headed to Columbia,…
Learning to be an advocate for women is difficult when you have to unlearn years of a complementarian mentality, male privilege and the…
I recently had a conversation with a good friend. As we were talking, I shared some frustrations I had surrounding ways that many…
How to Be Egalitarian with a Complementarian Spouse. Well you cry a lot, sometimes, especially in the beginning. You both get mad and…
"If You Give a Woman a Bible" is a Top 3 Winner for The Junia Project's 2017 blog contest. Laura Atwater cleverly uses…
This post is a Top 3 Winner for The Junia Project's 2017 blog contest. "It was an American supermodel who first showed me…
In 2015, a few months before my wedding, I wrote a blog for the Junia Project titled, 6 Things Egalitarian Marriage is Not.…
It is Friday afternoon and my 14-year old folds her tall frame into the passenger seat. “Mom, I am so angry.” Uh-oh. My…