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Why Losing Your Virginity Is Always a Public Spectacle

I could probably blog for a year on all the issues brought up in this interview   with 19-year-old London art…

How to Support a Writer

  I can think of at least three things I’d rather be doing right now instead of writing a blog…

Rethinking Celibacy

  April, the only character on Grey’s Anatomy who identifies as Christian and the only one who has conflicts about…

Pure Black Power

A note about today’s post: I have a bi-weekly column on National Catholic Reporter, and I plan to use these…

Is there a wrong reason to want a partner?

I got the following text from my mom at 4:45pm today: “Doing dishes now” I got this text three hours after…

The Value of Old Womanhood

I left the gym three-and-a-half hours after arriving there the other day. I’m not obsessed, I promise. One hour of…

How to Be a Black Feminist

I’m taking a class titled “History of U.S. Feminisms,” and I’m taking in an abundance of new information. I declare…

How Social Justice Work Keeps You Single

Today is September 1, 2013, so it’s official: it’s been one year since a man asked for my number. To…

The Right to Have Standards

“How Promiscuity Is a Form of Self-Mutilation,” the headline read. Since I’m returning to writing a memoir largely about sexuality,…

How Every Christian Can Relate to Homosexuals in the Church

Last Thursday, Jeff Chu, author of the new book, “Does Jesus Really Love Me? A Gay Christian’s Pilgrimage in Search…

The Most Important Ingredient for a Good Sex Scene

As you may know, I spent much of this week at AWP’s 2013 conference in Boston. On the last day,…

Bringing Black Churches into Reproductive Justice

(For the first Faith & Feminism Friday of 2013, I’m a guest contributor on the “Feminism and Religion” blog. The…

There’s Something about Mary

I have a problem with obedience—not necessarily the action, but the idea of it. Obedience implies acts done with or…

A Victim of Everyday Violence

  The Thanksgiving holiday weekend ended in a tragedy that’s shocked many Louisville residents, again. Cheryl Williamson, 24, was shot…

Dress Me Up Like This

While it’s fun to be someone else for a day, this Halloween, I hope you’ll join me in thinking about…

It’s in the GRITS
Bowl of grits

The full name of this blog is Redbone Afropuff & Black GRITS. I generally ignore the part after “and” because…

Bringing feminism into sexual morality

I stumbled upon the above tweets a few days ago in the timeline of Jonathan Merritt, author of “A Faith…

Virginity as a social construct?
40-yr-old virgin poster

“I don’t really believe in virginity.”   I heard “The F Word” blogger Holly Combe say this during a segment…

Contaminating the Pulpit

Disclaimer: The following post is based on information that’s come down a chain. Names have been omitted to protect those…

Deep South sexism and racism live on in Limbaugh

I’ve been reading At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape and Resistance—A New History of the Civil…

When man-made laws protect us from bad faith

Because faith is so personal, I try to avoid looking at it objectively or commenting on religions that are not…

It’s about women, even when it’s about religion

At a hearing titled “Lines Crossed: Separation of Church and State. Has the Obama Administration Trampled on Freedom of Religion…

Have it all? I’ll have none of that
Photo: Small child looking at a wall of candy in a candy store

Photo by rhoadeecha “…our choice-rich lives have the potential to breed their own brand of trouble. … The problem, simply…

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