I Dare You

Originally posted on Jloraye:
I was seven years old, sitting in my metal student desk, wearing my appropriate length skirt, staring up at the hole-y paddle on the wall, when I was first told girls couldn’t be pastors. I went home and cried and told my mom I wanted to be a boy. How dare…

Somebody Goofed

Long story short, I did a good deed and was punished by being given a Chick Tract. “Hey thanks! I’ll look into it.” I said as I gave the guy a friendly wave. It was called ‘Somebody Goofed’ and I flipped it over to see what the back cover had written on it. BBBC I […]

Disney’s Moana and Restoring the Divine Feminine

Have you seen Disney’s Moana? It’s the story of a strong young woman (who will one day be the chief of her people!) who sets out on a journey to restore balance to the world by returning the stolen heart of the goddess Te Fiti. Not only is this the story of a vibrant female…

Your Biblical Belief is 42 years old …

In “What is the Woman’s Desire?” By Susan Foh, the question about the meaning of the word “desire” is answered: “What Young considers an obviously impossible meaning for “desire,” the meaning which “desire” has in the same syntactical setting only 15 verses away, is not impossible. The woman has the same sort of desire for […]

There’s no Future Without the Present

In an interview with the Times of London, Leadsom said: “I don’t really know Theresa very well, but I am sure she will be really, really sad she doesn’t have children. So I don’t want this to be ‘Andrea has got children, Theresa hasn’t,’ because I think that would be really horrible. But genuinely I […]

Scripted

The other day, as I watched the movie Pleasantville, the ending just jumped out at me: David’s Mom: (Having just been crying.) When your father was here, I used to think, “This was it. This is the way it was always going to be. I had the right house. I had the right car. I […]

Matches

So the other day I was listening to a radio station online and I was intrigued by the first set of lyrics. An approximate translation is something like this: We are all matches from the same box, some light up early and others take longer to go out, some never catch fire, others fail to […]

Letters to the Corinthians: Saying Goodbye

It’s something of a special moment – finally reaching 1 Corinthians 16, the very last chapter. This happens to be the thirtieth post – of breaking down the letter by chapters and sections and reading the verses trying to figure out how much of it still applies exactly as written or how creative we’ve gotten […]

Letters to the Corinthians: Remember the Gospel

Many times prayers will be centered around standing on the promises of Scripture – agreeing with Bible verses that talk about healing, earnestly praying by enlisting others to pray for the same thing, praying at all hours of the day, everywhere you go – believing it fully so that what you bind on earth is […]

Letters to the Corinthians: Table Manners

It shouldn’t be all that surprising that one area of conflict happens to be food-centric get-togethers. It’s something that churches pride themselves on even today. For my grandparents’ church, the women were always swapping recipes and writing them down in cook-books which they would sell as a fundraiser and also a good guide to ensure […]