1985 vs. 2025: A Hope/less Hallelujah
Maybe our lesson from 1985 and 2025 is to be strengthened in the three hopes of Scripture, in giving the past, present, and future over to God.
Mixing Faith and Feminism: A Reaction to Bonnie Garmus’s Lessons in Chemistry
How can we better our culture to make God’s ideal plans easier to follow, and not just for those who are privileged?
Why It’s Important That Barbie Goes to the Gynecologist and Becomes a Real Girl
Underneath Barbie’s hot pink text of third-wave feminism, there’s a juicy subtext that values female embodied experience.
The Barbie Movie and Contemporary Feminism’s Likability Factor
This discovery of getting to know someone and liking her, rather than dismissing her out of hand is the real, overarching lesson of the film.
Responding to What Is a Woman?, Part 3: “It Sucks to Be a Girl”
While many of women’s problems are age-old, what’s changed is the promise of a new solution: the promise of escaping womanhood by adopting a new identity.
Responding to What Is a Woman?, Part 2: You Don’t Know What You’ve Got ‘Til It’s Gone
Without tradition to protect us, our bodies become subject to the dynamics of the market.
Responding to What Is a Woman?, Part 1: It’s Too Simple for Words
The categories of male/female and man/woman are simply too ancient and fundamental to be tampered with without consequences.
Don’t Worry Darling Presents a Problem Neither Feminism nor Patriarchy Can Fix
It’s hard to think that we can reach a place where sexism and abuse are no more, but it will happen in eternity.
The Highwomen Project Merely Cracks a Mold in Need of Breaking—in the World and in the Church
The church should be a “crowded table” with a place by the fire for every woman—white, black, and brown alike—where she isn’t crammed into a narrow definition of womanhood and femininity.
Bold in the City: Reflections on The Bold Type
The Bold Type has a not-very-subtle theme running through every episode: female empowerment for the modern millennial woman.
Redeeming Princess Culture
Whether Disney or its critics realize it, Christian virtues and gospel themes abound in these princess films.
Persuasion: Beauty and the Beast Raise a Ruckus
Erin Straza and Hannah Anderson hash out all the cheers and jeers of the 2017 remake of Beauty and the Beast.
Women Behaving Badly: What Miranda Lambert’s ‘Vice’ Is Really Telling Us
Country star Miranda Lambert gives us insight into sexual freedom for women: does it mean behaving as badly as men?
Male and Female He Created Them
Our fullest expression as male and female created in the image of God is found in neither unbridled freedom nor oppressive regulation.
Killing the Spirit of Fear: How Female Action Heroes Can Help Women Live Courageously
I didn’t need any classical administrators or bestsellers on biblical femininity to tell me how many ways there were to get it wrong.
Beyond the Mystique: Domesticity and the Proverbs 31 Woman
I grew up subconsciously attaching the 1950s housewife stereotype to the biblical model found in Proverbs 31. But the woman described in this passage is far removed from June Cleaver.
