Talking taboo : American Christian women get frank about faith /
edited by Erin S. Lane and Enuma Okoro ; foreword by Andrew Marin.
- xix, 240 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- The I speak for myself series .
- I speak for myself series. .
Going in disguise / The Gatherer-God : on motherhood and prayer / Naughty by nature, hopeful by grace / Becoming one flesh : thoughts on male headship in marriage / No one teaches us how to be daughters / Married without children / Living (together) without a blueprint / High stakes Whack-a-Mole : noticing and naming sexism in the church / On being a strong woman / Crafting bonds of blood / Leaving a marriage, finding Jesus / The God of shit times / Broken in the body, slain in the Spirit / Naming God for ourselves amidst pain and patriarchy / The silence behind the din : domestic violence and homosexuality / No women need apply / A woman of many questions / Hinges and doors / Gender confusion: navigating evangelical discussions of gender roles / Being a voice for the stranger / The pastor has breasts / Joiner / Free to believe : breaking with biblical authority / God in the bedroom : does Jesus care how you make love? / Created for pleasure / A thing of beauty / Tattooing my faith / Recovery from the porch / Sex, shame, and scarred knees / Flesh and blood / Finding my voice / A pregnant silence / A woman undone / What do Cinderella, lilies, and the cross have in common? / Running into glass doors / Swing and the single girl / The beauty in brokenness / Celebration of strength / My secret Buddhist life / A pastor in hiding / Andrew Marin -- Erin Lane -- Amy Frykholm -- Micha Boyett -- Enuma Okoro -- Amy Julia Becker -- aja monet -- Erin Lane -- Bristol Huffman -- Lara Blackwood Pickrel -- Julie Clawson -- Patience Perry -- Sarah McGiverin -- Rachel Marie Stone -- Tara Woodard-Lehman -- Rahiel Tesfamariam -- Rev. Sarah C. Jobe -- Gina Messina-Dysert -- K.D. Byers -- Andrea Palpant Dilley -- Sharon Hodde Miller -- Jenny Hwang Yang -- Rebecca Clark -- Alena Amato Ruggerio -- Jennifer D. Crumpton -- Anna Broadway -- Kate Ott -- Katie Anderson -- Robyn Henderson-Espinoza -- Pilar Timpane -- elizabeth mcmanus -- Ashley-Anne Masters -- Sarah Thebarge -- Katey Zeh -- Grace Biskie -- Carol Howard Merritt -- Atinuke O. Diver -- Meghan Florian -- Nikole Lim -- Christy Sim -- Mary Allison Cates -- Marlena Graves. Foreword / Introduction /
"American Christian Women under 40 are being theologically trained in unprecedented numbers, accessing leadership in their communities through both orthodox and unorthodox avenues, and balancing the roles of professional, wife, mother, girlfriend, and friend. With all of the perceived progress, why do they feel like their young voices still aren't being heard? And if they found the courage to speak, what would they want to say? The latest book in the I Speak For Myself series addresses the experiences of faith, gender, and identity that remain taboo for American Christian Women Under 40. Is it our desire to remain childless in a Catholic tradition that largely defines women by their ability to reproduce? Is it our struggle with pornography in an evangelical subculture that addresses it only as the temptation of unsatisfied men? From masturbation, miscarriage, and menstruation to ordination, co-habitation, and immigration, this collection of essays explores the most provocative topics of faith left largely unspoken in 21st century American faith life. For women and their partners, faith leaders and their members, historians and their students, this book documents the voices of young Christian women and their refusal to be silent any longer"--