In writing this post, I was one of the Top 15 2020 CBE Writing Contest winners. This article first appeared in […]
Proving My Virginity: Deuteronomy, Pap Smears, and the Hymen Myth Read Post »
Deuteronomy 22, Moonlight, Virginity in the Old Testament
You remember the Nashville Statement, right? No? OK… Imagine Martin Luther in 1517 when he nailed his 95 theses to
Everything wrong with the Nashville Statement: Article 01: the meaning of marriage Read Post »
Firelight, The church and exclusion
For a little while, now I’ve been furrowing my eyebrows at one particular line in Jesus’s parable of the prodigal
The prodigal and prostitutes – and the surprise gender-flip in Jesus’s parable Read Post »
Moonlight, Sex (and divorce) in the New Testament, Virginity in the Old Testament
Somewhere in the months between our 10th anniversary and the time of writing this, I zipped my wedding and engagement
I’m happily married, but I don’t wear my wedding ring. (And I have all kinds of feels.) Read Post »
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Content note: I debated whether I should categorise this post as ‘sunlight’ or ‘moonlight’. On the one hand, its message
This would be that law about the young bride who’s already lost her virginity. Actually it’s not, but I’ll get
There are a fair few strange laws concerning sex and marriage in the Old Testament books of law. Problem is,
Deuteronomy 22:13-21 is one of the scarier passages for impressionable young Christian women, as it seems to hold up pre-marital
There was some justifiable outrage recently when rapper T.I. said that he had a gynaecologist annually test that his daughter’s
About that virginity test in Deuteronomy 22: it’s not what you think Read Post »
Deuteronomy 22, Moonlight, Virginity in the Old Testament
“Breathe in the good s***, breathe out the bulls***.” As I told a friend I was going to hear Nadia
Shameless about…? On hearing Nadia Bolz-Weber at Southwark Cathedral Read Post »
Firelight, My faith
Photo credit: Martin Jernberg https://unsplash.com/@martinjernberg Over the last few years I’ve found that there are some words that I’ve started
How the word ‘proxy’ helps me talk about equality Read Post »
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Statue of Juliet, Verona. Photo by World of Magic on Unsplash. ‘Proud can I never be of what I
As I finally come to write reviews of this last cluster of books from 2017 I realise that I’ve probably
Books of 2017: Titles for those who are looking outside the box Read Post »
Uncategorised1 Corinthians 11:3. Ephesians 5:22. If you’ve been anywhere near the arguments about complementarianism you’ll probably know what these verses
Books of 2017: Titles of interest to egalitarian Christians Read Post »
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It is 500 years to the day (well, sort of, if we don’t worry about the shift to the Gregorian
Always reforming: 95 statements on hope, sexuality and consent Read Post »
Sunlight, The church and consent
Last Christmas I realised something that made me so angry I wanted to pick up my laptop and smash it
Why purity-as-separation undermines the church’s covenant calling Read Post »
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OK, first up: caveats. That tweet was in April. It’s now July. What I’m about to write is a mixture
Rethinking virginity: yes, it is about purity, but it’s not like a silk scarf Read Post »
Moonlight, My faith
