The Bible, the Church, and Spirituality
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…
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…
“She needs to get a nose job. That girl has a schnoz.” If I heard it once in my teenage years, I heard it many times. As adolescence descended on me, my nose grew in not just larger than average, but hooked, and not just hooked, but visibly crooked. The first time I saw my […] Read more…
I have a new article at RELEVANT Magazine on people with special needs in church: Special Needs, the Church and the Justice of God Read more…
15 years ago, I said, “I do.” 11 years later, I said, “No more.” Something stronger than pain engulfed me. Not just loss of happiness, but the loss of any sense of purpose. I had been Mrs. Interfaith Marriage for so long, I had no idea who I was or who I might be without […] Read more…
I’ve never understood how belief in traditional gender roles survives an actual reading of the Gospels. Case in point: when I thought about what the Bible specifically says about mothers (as distinct entities from fathers), this verse immediately came to mind: “As Jesus was saying these things, a woman in the crowd called out, […] Read more…
“Women are not called to public preaching!” I’ve honestly never understood people who take this position given that the Bible contains a very specific example of a woman preaching in public: There was also a prophet, Anna, the daughter of Penuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was very old; she had lived with her […] Read more…
