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 know how this essay will be read by many Christians, because I once read others the same way. With concern. With defensiveness. With a quiet sense that something precious is being threatened. The instinct is not malicious. It is protective. Faith, for many, is not merely a set of propositions, but a moral compass,…

A Family That Prays Together… When people learn that I have left Christianity, and the reasons why I reject the God of classical theism, they rarely seek to engage the substance of the arguments I offer. The conversation seldom turns on whether my conclusions are consistent with the scholarly consensus on religious history, whether they…

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…