Fresh on the heels of countless pastors responding to the Philip Yancey 8-year affair with “it could have been any of us,” SBC Texas megachurch pastor Jonathan Pokluda asked rhetorically on an Instagram story “Why do I have a desire…
What do women really want? To move
According to a new Gallup poll, one in five Americans wish they could leave the U.S. and permanently relocate to another country. The demographic driving this record-high desire to emigrate are women and teens ages 15 to 44, 40% of…
Letters to Mary: Women are open to the impossible
“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” — Maya Angelou Dear Mary, This is my final letter to you this season of Advent. Lest we journey too…
Letters to Mary: Women have creative power
Advent shows us something about power that the palace always forgets. Real strength doesn’t powder its face with contempt. The authority that spoke galaxies into being entered the world through a woman’s body and trusted her to say yes. — Derek…
Letters to Mary: Women cannot be controlled
“Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.” — Toni Morrison Dear Mary, Mother, I grow weary this Advent season; this is a weary world longing to rejoice as the carol sings. I miss the…
What if your father talked about women the way Trump does?
Aboard Air Force One, Bloomberg reporter Catherine Lucey asked President Donald Trump about being in the Epstein emails. Trump responded, “Quiet, quiet piggy.” The president also wagged his finger at her to give verbal backup to his insult. Why does…
Sex, porn, bikinis, health care, hunger and Great Gatsby depravity
Those of us who grew up in white evangelical schools and churches are used to being coerced into submission under the threat of exile. In what we experienced as a theocracy, these institutions held total control over our lives, including…
Are women leading or leaving the church?
Having spent some time earlier this year meeting potential romantic partners through the popular Christian dating app Upward, I’ve been consistently confused by the state of Christianity among my generation. The Millennial and Zoomer profiles around my age, which I…
Women are the problem?
Really? Women are the problem? I read with incredulity and some humor the words of Nick Fuentes and Tucker Carlson as they pontificated in a recent interview about how women are the reason young people aren’t getting married. Rick Pidcock…
Women are the problem, Carlson and Fuentes declare
“It’s the women,” conservative white nationalist influencer Nick Fuentes smugly declared on the Tucker Carlson show in response to Carlson asking why young people aren’t getting married these days. “The men are extremely conservative, increasingly,” he intoned. “The women are…
‘Exvangelical’ women are leaving their churches. But is it decline or renewal?
Taylor Yoder, who grew up in an evangelical Christian family in southern Pennsylvania, was active in her church and its youth group. But as a young adult, she found that friendships with LGBTQ co-workers at a Starbucks caused her to…
Dear Baptist Press, contraception is not ‘embryocidal’
I write this in an effort to clarify the basic functions of birth control. It’s important for Christian women to know they should not be wary of “contraception culture,” as a recent article published by Baptist Press’ David Roach claims….