Are we the baddies? On Luther, anti-Semitism and how Christians can work on their blind spots
This is a personal reflection on how I became aware of some of my theological blind spots, and what the church didn’t tell me about Luther.
Christianity
About doctrinal statements that I just can’t even with (and those that I can)
Sometimes it seems a statement of faithIs a state of unfaith,A badly built gateTo shut down debate. Christine Woolgar Maybe
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Firelight, My faith, The church and exclusion
Some thoughts on being an asexual Christian married woman
This is a long-overdue post in response to those who’ve asked me to write something about asexuality and theology. I
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My faith, Sunlight
Why Love & Respect’s CHAIRS acronym isn’t about genuine respect
I show how the CHAIRS acronym, which Eggerichs uses as a reference for respect, is more about self-importance than self-worth.
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Firelight, The church and consent
Paul’s letter to his prodigal daughter (and the paradigm shift hidden within 2 Corinthians 10–13)
In 2 Corinthians, I see allusions to one of the harshest laws in Deuteronomy concerning women, sex, and virginity – and yet, there is no violence in Paul’s letter.
The prodigal and prostitutes – and the surprise gender-flip in Jesus’s parable
For a little while, now I’ve been furrowing my eyebrows at one particular line in Jesus’s parable of the prodigal
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Moonlight, Sex (and divorce) in the New Testament, Virginity in the Old Testament
To stay or to go? On church, LGBT+ affirmation, and uncomfortable places
(Sheet music from a Cadiz by Isaac Albeniz – complete with notes from my piano teacher) Imagine being in the
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Firelight, The church and exclusion
Priestesses in the church? Why CS Lewis’ argument was right, but his conclusion wrong
Originally published in 1948, CS Lewis’ essay “Priestesses in the church?” makes the argument that if women represent God to
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Firelight, The church and exclusion
What exactly is a pledge? Exploring the types of commitment seen in the Bible
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about purity pledges. For the uninitiated, these are when Christian teenagers (both male and
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Sunlight, The Bible and other studies
Good Gifts for Growing People: A sermon on Romans 12:1-8
So, there is this idea that women have the ability and commission to preach just as much as men. This
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Always reforming: 95 statements on hope, sexuality and consent
It is 500 years to the day (well, sort of, if we don’t worry about the shift to the Gregorian
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Sunlight, The church and consent
I always loved the Torah – and now I feel lied to (a complaint about translation)
I’ve always loved the first five books of the Bible (aka the Torah). I don’t feel lied to because suddenly
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Why purity-as-separation undermines the church’s covenant calling
Last Christmas I realised something that made me so angry I wanted to pick up my laptop and smash it
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A brain-dump about purity: this time, I think I really might change the world
When I was a plucky secondary school pupil, I had an idea for a perpetual motion machine. I was beyond
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Firelight, The church and hope
Rethinking virginity: yes, it is about purity, but it’s not like a silk scarf
OK, first up: caveats. That tweet was in April. It’s now July. What I’m about to write is a mixture
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Moonlight, My faith
How can we make churches more inclusive spaces
OK, so I was having a Twitter conversation and was asked about practical examples to make churches more inclusive. I
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Beast and Christian Grey: monsters or lovers? (Part 5: Hope and love)
My greatest criticisms of both Fifty Shades and the 2017 version of Beauty and the Beast come down to how
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Redemption and Fifty Shades
The Orlando nightclub shooting: a challenge to non-LGBT Christians
It’s the one-year anniversary of the Orlando Pulse nightclub shooting. It wasn’t long after 12 June 2016 that I spoke
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Modesty 101: modesty is not about clothes, rather glory and context
So… the fabulous Sierra White has asked me to share some thoughts on modesty for her Facebook page Ezer Rising (and
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Sunlight, The Bible and other studies, The church and consent
Gary Thomas’ claim that Christians should have more children is unbiblical
Gary Thomas recently published an article “Does God Care How Many Children We Have?” It’s one of those really banal
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Resurrection me: tasting future glory (a poem)
I don’t want to write a long commentary on this poem, but I will say that as I wrote it,
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My creativity, Starlight