Unveiling the Fallacy of Biblical Male Supremacy — You know, I was thinking the other day how utterly absurd it is that men (and some women) insist that men should hold all the power — in pretty much all spheres of life — including casting one vote for them as a couple. I guess that’s the inevitable outcome…

Finding inclusion where I least expected it — Being a born and bred Baptist girl, I knew the ins and outs of my faith — or so I thought. To put a feather in my cap, I attended John Piper’s church while attending a Baptist college studying theology. Yeah, baby. I was fully immersed and baptized. People don’t…

From male supremacy to divine equality — When I was a kid, adults knew everything. They were in some other stratosphere that I didn’t inhabit. They had life figured out and knew what they wanted. Me, I was just a kid with a lot of questions rumbling around in my head. Being the child of missionaries, I…

How Conservative Christian men twist Scripture to keep women in their “place” — There’s a serious cognitive dissonance going on in the Conservative world, and it just floors me that the system keeps propping up white cis men who continue to wreak havoc on the church and any credibility of the Gospel message. Words escape me to describe how I, as a woman…

Exposing the church’s outdated views on women’s roles — Steam was coming out of my ears, and I was having trouble reigning in my anger. I ranted and raved, ready to eviscerate the one who offended me, my verbal knife poised to disembowel the idiot who had the effrontery, the sheer nerve(!) to make such a ridiculous statement. My…

The tyranny of Biblical misinterpretation — In six months, we’d moved three continents, and my head was still reeling trying to adjust to all the cultural changes — food, clothing styles, language — and time changes. It was exhausting! After living in Brazil for 14 years, we were now in Portugal. Even though the two countries…

How homophobic Bible translators went off the rails — As a missionary kid many years ago, I grew up knowing about the world in ways that most of my peers never knew. Today I can enter my local grocery store in the middle of the US and buy any number of exotic fruits. I can tap a few keys…

Discovering a deeper faith beyond canned theology — I had been back in the US for a few short months and was already missing my Brazilian culture like an ache in my gut. It was, therefore, with great anticipation that I learned my elementary school was doing an “International day.” I hoped with all my heart that they…

Exposing the gender bias in Biblical translation — When Dad first learned Portuguese, he made some hilarious mistakes. One was when he wanted to buy a kilo of nails for a project. Not knowing the word for “nails,” he looked it up in the dictionary and chose the first word he came to. Armed with this knowledge, he…