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Book Review: “Why Can’t We Be Friends?” by Aimee Byrd

NOTE: Throughout this review, quotes from Why Can’t We Be Friends? will be cited by simply placing the page number in parentheses. Quotations from other works, even if they occur …

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Friendship and the Pence Rule: A Woman and Her Body

Today, I feel a need to address something that often gets lost in the shuffle of our debates over male/female friendships and the Pence Rule*: a woman’s understanding of her …

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Friendship and the Pence Rule: Understanding Ezer

Hello again, everyone! Evidently, the rumors of my demise were somewhat exaggerated. I said I was stepping away from Christian writing, and I intend to hold to that. However, I …

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Council of Google Plus: The Homosexual & Gender Emanation

  I joined the conversation on this week’s episode of the Council of Google Plus podcast to discuss such pedestrian issues as homosexuality, female pastors, submission in marriage, and human …

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Why Did God Make Me a Woman?

“Why did God make me a woman?” That question surely crossed the mind of my ancestor, Empress Matilda. She was one of two legitimate children of King Henry I of …

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The Nashville Statement, Procreation, and the Purpose of Marriage

Friends, I hesitated to write this, but I believe what I have to say needs to be said. Please know that the criticisms in this article are not aimed at …

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Theology Gals Podcast

I was recently honored to appear on an episode of the Theology Gals podcast, which is on the awesomely named Bible Thumping Wingnut network. We discussed my recent articles about …

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Is Wonder Woman a Good Example of Biblical Womanhood?

It has come to my attention in recent weeks that some people are pointing to the latest incarnation of DC Comics’ Wonder Woman as a role model not only for …

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What We Can Learn about Biblical Authority from Jane Eyre

I love Jane Eyre. It’s one of the few novels that I have revisited after completing the final pages. Whether it is a landmark achievement in the history of feminism …

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Treating People as more than Just Bodies

A couple days ago, I talked about the biblical basis for defining a person as both body and soul, and how our ultimate hope is not to become a disembodied …