The problem is that progressive Christians don't fit the media narrative about Christian women. Notice how they never interview anyone from this organization: http://www.cbeinternational.org/ or how few articles are written about Rachel Held Evans and other feminist Christian voices. Shoot i'd love it if they covered…

Thank you... :)

Well the Seventh Day Adventists were started by a woman and my in-laws are part of a Buddhist sect that was started by a woman. Just to clarify, are we talking worldwide or western? Worldwide I suspect there were religions started by women but those narratives have been lost or destroyed.

They have been but we progressives get ignored because we don't fit the media narrative about religious womenfolk in the US :(

I would hope that the writers of Jezebel are aware of the great diversity within Christianity. Not all Christians are white evangelicals or Catholics or from the Bible Belt. Even within Catholicism there's quite a bit of diversity in terms of theology and cultures. The cause of this disconnect is not the Christians,…

I just wanted to pop in and say thanks for an amazing thread. I lived in Asia for a time and rode several subways over there. I found Beijing's the easiest to navigate (cuz rings) but fell in love with the Octopus card. What's frustrating is that it took over fifteen years since I was last in Asia for a similar card…

So this went down the runway yesterday in Milan..... and no my mom wasnt there OR involved. My moms bag, Sandra Okuma, the middle one, 2008. The two on either side is Dsquared2 fall/winter 2015........ Coincidence????? I THINK NOT!!! Oh yeah, btw..... if you want to search the collection on instagram.... use THEIR…

Hi Ellie, this is a bit of derail but i really would love it if one of you Jezzies covered the offensive show held in Milan by the dsquared brothers. Not only did they appropriate indigenous designs they hashtagged it with a racial slur.

These pictures and the stories of people's grandma's hair routines are fascinating for me. I come from migrant farm workers, pioneers and a PNW tribe. So elaborate hair care was just not what we did.

So... i... um... 'tasted the rainbow' before settling down with a nice Chinese man who thought he hit the jackpot to find a mixed American Indian gal who spoke Chinese. :) It's also a bonus that we come from similar class and cultural values because we don't fight over things like helping our parents manage money and…

For a hot minute I thought this was about corn meal... otoh I believe it was that part of the country where mrchien was told 'we don't serve your kind here' five years ago when he was trying to pump some gas. Lest you think that's unique to the south, we get some hard stares when we visit the rural part of CA I grew…

I remember hearing about that sort of thing when i was in college. I grew up in a teeny tiny rural town so we had the sense of being safe from that kind of thing because we knew who the gays were in town. (I still roll my eyes at that to this day) I did my college in the Bay Area and that's when shit got real because…

I used to be in ministry so i have no doubt these kinds of conversations are still happening. As for your friend i am sympathetic to her concerns in that she's a parent who wants to do what's best for her child but as someone who's worked with youth and has looked at the science on the topic, she is deeply misguided…

What happened to Texas since then?!

I was trying to explain to some young whipper snapper just how pervasive sex ed was in my day because of AIDS and they just didn't get it. You barely hear about HIV and AIDS these days but if you look at the media from that period it was everywhere!!

I know that now but when i was 11 and watching that whole story it all got conflated in my brain. That's how scary the whole thing was at that time!

Well to be fair, this video looks like it was made in the early 90's or late 80's and at that time sex could kill if you didn't use protection. I'm an old and my family was not religious at all and I remember our public school sex education classes opening with that very line because this was before the AIDS cocktail…

Well technically the term is used for people who are half Asian and half whatever. But I hope any future kidlets would be proud of all their heritages. :)

Is this a rhetorical question?? ;)

I was a music minor and an instrumentalist waaaay back in the day. So i've forgotten a lot of my training, but there are some things that never quite fade away and my ear training, so far, has been one of those. And yeah it was a solid performance and she's a solid performer with good pipes, no doubt.