No one’s Messiah
To Christian men and the churches they attend: I am not your Christ. Churches may try to put women on a cross, sacrificing them so that men may be pure and holy. But I am not your savior. Churches may...
View ArticleWhy Chris Rosebrough is Wrong: A Case for Ordaining Women (Guest Post By...
Here are some thoughts from my friend Travis Mamone (who blogs about cool stuff like Doctor Who and theology here!) on why popular arguments against the ordination of women fall flat and why sometimes...
View ArticleAccount and Countenance
Trigger Warning for intimate partner violence/verbal abuse and spiritual abuse I’m on a guest-posting streak apparently, because today I’m over at Dianna Anderson’s blog talking about images of God...
View ArticleWhy I’m a Unitarian Universalist
I want to talk about faith for a second. I’m a Unitarian Universalist. People often ask me what that means. Basically, it’s an interfaith religion that celebrates diversity, yet finds unity. Unity is...
View ArticleOn being a female body at a Christian college
[I wrote recently about learning to love my body for Lent. Part of that loving so far has involved some deep contemplation about where the fear and hatred come from. And I've realized something. Part...
View ArticleWe are thin spaces.
I’ve been reading N.T. Wright’s Surprised by Hope for several months now (with my internship, my research project, plus school and work, it’s been a slow process). In one section he discusses an idea...
View ArticleHello there, Patheos!
When I was a kid growing up in an independent, fundamental Baptist church, spirituality was a dirty word. When many independent fundamental Baptists thinks of “spirituality,” they think of pantheism,...
View ArticlePackin’ up and movin’ to Patheos!
Hey readers! It’s official. I’ve made the move to Patheos Spirituality. The new URL is http://www.patheos.com/blogs/sarahoverthemoon/ Check out my first post here! When I was a kid growing up in an...
View ArticleOn Bob Jones University, and Letting Survivors Speak
Content Note: Rape, Sexual Assault Growing up expecting to go to Bob Jones University today was just another part of life as a member of an IFB (independent fundamental Baptist) church. Unless of...
View ArticleThe Answer To Sexual Shame is Not MORE Sexual Shame, Carson T. Clark
[Content Note: Sexual and Spiritual Abuse] When I was 16, I dated an abuser who was constantly coercing me into having sex with him. I had been raised in fundamentalist purity culture, so I thought of...
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