Heresy in the Heartland

The following intimate and insightful post is by Sean-Allen Parfitt and is reposted with his permission. Sean-Allen blogs at Of Pen and H...

In Which I Return to the Beginning We had exhausted the church options in our own community; now we crossed county lines heading ea...

An abridged version of this article appeared as a guest post on the blog  Ramblings of Sheldon . In Which God and I Are Introduced ...

The following are the stories of the lives of Susanna Wesley's seven daughters. For further reading, see Part 1,  Voiceless Women: Susa...

I am reading through a journal I kept when I was fourteen. Some entries make me smile; others just make me shake my head. I have posted here...

Decades ago, I cross-stitched a scripture motto for my parents from Psalm 127, the favorite psalm of large families. "Lo, children a...

     And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the Lord, and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands,      The...

Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom—both young and old—surrounded the house. They called to Lot, ...

KNIVES by Jeri Lofland One morning in the middle of my childhood, Mom sat my brother and me down in the living room and presented us...

    ...So he took [the Levite] into his house and fed his donkeys. After they had washed their feet, they had something to eat and drink. ...

Quick history review: One hundred years ago, women in America were still marching for the right to vote. An American suffrage event ...

Today's Christian rape culture is nothing new. From Clement of Alexandria ( "By no means are women to be allowed to uncover an...