I didn’t sleep well last night, but I woke this morning as I often do: ready. I’m a morning person, and often before bed I have a dorky thought like “oh goody! Soon morning will be here so I can get started again!” In fact, when I can’t sleep it is usually because I haveContinue reading >>
A woman who likes to eat
The latest dust-up in this distressing election cycle has been Donald Trump’s fat shaming of a former Miss Universe, Alicia Machado. His comments and attitude are disgusting and demeaning: even if you argue that the “job” of a beauty queen is to stay beautiful, there is no evidence she has ever been anything but. TrumpContinue reading >>
Hillary and the hope that I might be allowed to age
If I know I have to convince someone of something, I wear more makeup that day. Using the unscientific data of my lived experience, I can safely say that I am more likely to get what I want if I look pretty. And to the young man on Facebook who recently whined that women “useContinue reading >>
Loving Your Body is an Act of Faith – my guest post for CBE International
I was honored that the good folks at Christians for Biblical Equality invited me to contribute this month. Enjoy! How many of us have shaped our lives around the message that when we go out to proclaim the reign of God we must “take nothing for the journey” (Luke 9:3)? We are called to beContinue reading >>
Megyn Kelly and the mystery of white feminism
When history judges our era’s collection of liberation movements, it may well note that progress for women’s rights was halting and disjointed. Other groups advocating for legal rights and an end to discrimination, such as gays and lesbians, trans activists, and African-Americans appear, for the most part, united and tactical. For most of these groups heContinue reading >>