Growing up in various Protestant churches, I never heard one sermon on rape in marriage. Those churches put a lot of emphasis on avoiding sex before marriage, but once you were married, supposedly everything was fair game. Even under US law, courts did not recognize marital rape as a crime until the 1970s. Yet anyContinue reading “Rape in Marriage and the Church”
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God is Female, Too
When I was growing up, the churches that my family attended NEVER used feminine pronouns for God. Of course, there was the occasional sermon about how God has feminine attributes (God gathers people like “a hen gathers her chicks,” Matthew 23:37). But the discussion would go nowhere beyond a brief discussion of that passage. TheContinue reading “God is Female, Too”
Sabbath for the Introvert
Traditional notions of Sabbath as a day to attend religious services and spend time with family may not be the Sabbath designed for the introvert. The first time I started seriously practicing Sabbath was when I was attended an evangelical college. I took a class on “spiritual disciplines” and Sabbath was one of the disciplines,Continue reading “Sabbath for the Introvert”
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