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Struggling with personhood and homosexuality

As a morally conservative Christian woman, I derived my initial sense of sexual ethics from a Protestant upbringing, which taught me that sex was reserved for the context of heterosexual marriage alone. I was taught that…
Converting my Dualism with Jesus

There are going to be several sections to this post, because while the ideas occurred in academics, I want to personalize them and bring them into the most intimate context of being that I know, a closeness with Jesus th…
Book review: This Female Man of God: Women and Spiritual Power in the Patristic Age, AD 350-450 by G

Gillian Cloke, This Female Man of God: Women and Spiritual Power in the Patristic Age, AD 350-450. Hb. London and New York: Routledge, 1995. Pp. Vii, 243. ISBN 978-0-415-09469-6. $135.00.Caught in the eternal struggle …
Book review: This Female Man of God: Women and Spiritual Power in the Patristic Age, AD 350-450 by G

Gillian Cloke, This Female Man of God: Women and Spiritual Power in the Patristic Age, AD 350-450. Hb. London and New York: Routledge, 1995. Pp. Vii, 243. ISBN 978-0-415-09469-6. $135.00.Caught in the eternal struggle …
When God Breaks a Heart

I, Hannah, am just an ordinary sort of girl, in my eyes, because I am the first thing I knew. When I look at people, I see different sorts of feelings... either kindness, sadness, compassion, anger, or something alike…
Fluidity of the Canon

I tend to look at our faith and the institutions which have been instated to guide the current generation, as well as the previous generation and the future generation, as a flexible and fluid authority. It always has …
Bipolar Shekhinah: can't decide gender or role

I am reading Gershom Scholem's "On the Mystical Shape of the Godhead: Basic Concepts in the Kabbalah"... and I have reached the 5th chapter, "Shekhinah: The Feminine Element in Divinity" which fascniates me as I am out o…
Reflections on the Damaging of a Soul

Wow, thats a depressing title, but I really don’t know how else to wonder about whats running through my mind. I guess as human beings, we can’t help but touch another soul every day, as long as we’re not one of the d…
An evening discussion with God

So I went walking after a run this evening, just because I needed to tell God what was on my heart. It feels like I am in such a similar place to two years ago, my final semester at Cuyahoga Community College... I took …
Submitting to a Husband Who Breaks God’s Rules

Submitting to a Husband Who Breaks God’s Rules Personal Observations in Case Study of Gentile-Christian Marriages (1 Peter 3:1-6) I am Elisavet, a woman in living in Galatia during the year AD 65. I have been set fr…