Creative Studio

Christianity depends on women’s bodies while disciplining them. From Eve to Mary, blood, birth, and blame shape the faith’s imagination. This essay traces how patriarchy became theology, and why any honest deconstruction must reckon with the women who carry the cost.

I have spent my whole life in church – a born-again, Bible-studying, multi-generational Christian. I heard the stories about how ‘so-and-so’ stopped going to church, or ‘such-and-such’ was no longer a Christian. Never in a million years did I think those are the stories others might hear about me. I have always had questions about…