Battered boundaries in the church
Why did I suddenly, relentlessly, find my boundaries battered? Who knew battered boundaries in the church would set me on a new life quest?
Killing with (fake) kindness – a lie that binds
Anyone can do a kind act for a selfish reason. Those who want to control others – and to appear good – can fake kindness and use it to abuse.
Abusers like Ahab & Jezebel use one another
They’re eerily alike: Ahab and Jezebel, who ruled in Elijah’s day. Men and women church leaders, who use one another to abuse everyone else.
Walking on the water to Jesus
Rejected by church systems and their leaders. Yet profoundly affirmed by God. Here's my story of walking on the water to meet Jesus when he made the way.
Women, false responsibility and the church
A distorted view of “women’s responsibility” is deeply embedded in the church. Here’s what people may expect of us – but God does not.
This “good Christian girl” is a woman now
Grown, yet unaware my view of women was far more Confederate than biblical, I was a good Christian girl. This girl is a woman now, a woman going with God.
Exploited in the church, but Leah no more
As unloved Leah did Jacob, a woman can give herself to a church culture that exploits her – while rejecting her personhood, her adulthood, her worth, her.
Women, prophecy and the church
"A woman with the gift of prophecy is not to speak what she hears from God," said the preacher. "But to take to it to her prayer closet.”
The silencing of women and the snorts of God
In 1 Corinthians 14:34-35, God silences women and Paul affirms it, right? What if God and Paul both snort at the idea – and we haven't known?
Submit to such women in the Lord
The greetings in Paul’s New Testament letters – the ones translators have altered and we often bypass – affirm women, as well as men, who minister as true servant leaders.