Dancing with Deborah: My Exodus from Patriarchy to The Liberation of Women
By some miracle or curse, the issue of women's equality avoided me throughout high school and managed to sneak by during most of…
The Dance of Mutual Submission
When my babies were born, I fully intended to stay home full-time with them for a variety of reasons. However, a year after…
Confessions of a Former Complementarian
“The church has not been kind to women.” That is perhaps the most profound understatement I have ever made about any subject in…
Side-By-Side: Taking Responsibility For My Spiritual Well-Being
When we keep our eyes on Jesus, there’s no need for one-sided leadership based on gender. Our marriage is a partnership, not an…
5 Ways to Avoid Undermining Your Theology of Gender
I was a complementarian for more than 20 years. I believed that women should not serve as church elders or senior pastors, that…
A Place for All Women in the Church?
I recently turned 43, and the 40s bring a sense of clarity that eludes us in our 20s and 30s (I’ll probably say…
Why I Am Womanist & Feminist (and it has nothing to do with hating men)
Now is not the time to blame women or consistently accuse us of complaining, ranting and raving and hating men. For many of…
No Middle Ground for Women in the Church
There was a time I tried to keep both a hierarchical view of authority in the church and a freedom for women to…
Gender Hierarchy isn’t the Reason I Left Evangelical Christianity, but…
I was raised by egalitarian parents and my first meeting with gender division in the Church was when I was studying theology at…
Submission: A Personal Story
Submission What he had always been told he deserved What he expected from me, with nothing in return But it was not mine…