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Joseph's amazing technicolor princess dress—and my hand-me-down boys' cargo shorts

Friends,

Last week I got to write for the lovely Feminism and Religion blog, sharing some thoughts that Shannon T. L. Kearns’ reflections on evangelical purity culture as a transgender man sparked for me as a cisgender woman.

The piece be...

4 days ago
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Cool new books: Love Like a Mother, by Elizabeth Berget

Friends,

In Nice Churchy Patriarchy, I’ve got a chapter called “Her Eye Is on the Sparrow.”

I start with how a seminary chapel musician’s rewrite of the classic hymn “His Eye Is on the Sparrow” hit me in the gut with truths I hadn’t quite...

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Evangelicalism haunts my dreams (literally)

Friends,

I wanted to share three dream snippets from the last few months. Real, literal, nighttime dreams that I’ve had. Don’t worry, I’ll be brief.

Dream #1:

I’m running and hiding, trying to escape from agents of an evil empire (th...

18 days ago
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Animals are our kin, too

Friends,

When I was in elementary school, maybe second grade, a class assignment invited each of us to do a little introspection.

The end result might have been a poster, or maybe it was just a packet or a sheet of paper filled with infor...

25 days ago
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We don't need more "main character energy"

Friends,

In the last couple weeks I’ve been noticing the idea of “main character energy” popping up all over the place.

Okay, so by “all over the place” maybe I mostly mean on a delightfully trashy radio show I listen to sometimes while d...

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  • Liz Cooledge Jenkins

    Writer, preacher, former college campus minister. Author of Nice Churchy Patriarchy: Reclaiming Women's Humanity from Evangelicalism. Pacific Northwestern-er, swimmer, casual vegetable gardener, avid tea drinker.

  • Shelly Shepherd

    Expanding a longer and wider Table… one that Mary Magdalene offered to Jesus and he said yes…

  • Halley Kim

    Writer. Exvangelical heretic. Former pastorʼs wife. At times a preacher, nurse, doula, lactation consultant, midwifeʼs assistant, activist. Always a troublemaker.

  • Elizabeth Berget

    Christian writer exploring maternal imagery for God in the Bible - and how God loves us like a mother. My book Love like a Mother: How the Sacred Work of Motherhood Reveals the Maternal Heart of God comes out May 2026 with Brazos Press.

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