feminin/masculin-ity

sex, virginity, vulnerability

Breaking Shame: Why Purity Culture Works+

I’ve struggled for decades with what Brené Brown calls scarcity: the never enough problem (Daring Greatly). I was a perfect...

When I first started doubting the age-old “plain” meaning of Scripture, I was nervous. If I could say “Oh, that’s...

My son was sick. Usually, I’m a good nurse, but this one morning, I was feeling ambivalent toward being a mommy....

I get questions from young people asking what I think about gay people, same sex attraction, homosexuality. Mainly, these inquiring...

Since speaking at Biola University on Harry and Sally are Wrong (you can watch it here) I’ve been flooded with emails and...

A recent comment from a poet and friend “Learning to admire my not-as-narrow waist and not-as-board-flat-tummy” inspired me to post...

“In so many ways our culture trains us to be unfit for friendship.” Paul Wadell as quoted by Dan Brennan,...