Everyday Radical: To The Last Virgins Standing
Dear sixteen-year-old Emily, In a few days Brent will dump you. The coolest guy in school. A basketball star. And you will wonder if you should have let him. If you should have pulled the Kleenex from...
View ArticleEveryday Radical: How God Feels About Letting His Children Go to Hell
my son is sucking on his bear even as he sleeps. he’s only 18 months old and his cheeks are red as apples and i didn’t know being a mother would be this hard. elizabeth stone says that having a child...
View ArticleIn which being single is something to celebrate
It is Valentine’s Day and my friend’s just broken up with her boyfriend. And there’s nothing worse except for being alone on Christmas, and Hallmark has this way of isolating the wounded. I write my...
View ArticleFifty Shades of Grey — And Why it’s Black And White For Me
I was at a wine tasting raising money for the local library, when a colleague told me about a girl in grade three who was found flipping through a copy of Fifty Shades of Grey, the pseudo-masochistic,...
View ArticleThe lost art of servanthood (a letter to my feminist sisters)
Dear sisters, dear spiritual mothers and daughters and midwives and stay at home mamas; Dear women pastors and elders and janitors and lawyers and teachers and artists, I celebrate us. I think this...
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