The Bible, the Church, and Spirituality
Josh Harris’s Boy Meets Girl: Say Hello to Courtship was pretty formative for me back in 2000 when I read it. His 1995 short story “The Room” was also a favorite of mine (and a fascinating early example of a viral e-mail gone wrong). I did read I Kissed Dating Goodbye (1997), but it didn’t […] Read more…
I’m on Bluesky now under the church historian custom handle bridgetjj.hist.church. This is different from the standard Bluesky handle, which would have been something like bridgetjj.bsky.social. But what even is Bluesky, and why are custom handles one of its best features? If you haven’t heard, there’s something of a social media migration underway at the […] Read more…
I have a new article in the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society: “Hebrews, She Wrote?: An Analysis of the Harnack-Hoppin Thesis of Priscillan Authorship of Hebrews.” In it, I argue that Prisca / Priscilla is not a serious contender for primary authorship of the anonymous composition that became known as Πρὸς Ἑβραίους. You may […] Read more…
In September 2016, I submitted a guest post to Jory Micah’s Breaking the Glass Steeple blog called “Should an Egalitarian Date a Complementarian?” The post was a partial response to two posts John Piper had made on the subject earlier that year. Jory’s blog is now defunct and her social media posts indicate she no […] Read more…
I have a new article out in the Trinity Journal called “The Consecrated Virgin and the Princess Bride: Historical Applications of Ps 45 to Women in Education and Ministry.” As part of my doctoral studies, I took an interdisciplinary class in Spring 2022 wherein the main task for us students was to write a paper […] Read more…
As part of my PhD coursework, I am currently enrolled in a class at TEDS called “Great Female Theologians,” taught by Fellipe M. do Vale. The class has been using Amy G. Oden’s In Her Words (1994) to read excerpts from women like Perpetua (c. 182–203), Macrina (324–379), Egeria (AD 4), Dhuoda (AD 9), Hildegard […] Read more…
Christians have been explaining away the uncomfortable truth of female leadership in the Scriptures for centuries. Deborah (Judges 4:4) was only leading Israel because “there were no worthy men available.” Phoebe (Romans 16:1-2) was just a “helper” and “servant,” not a “patron” and “deacon.” The female pastor whom John writes to in 2 John […] Read more…
