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The Christianity Today women's blog provides news and analysis from the perspective of evangelical women. We cover news stories and books related to international justice and evangelism, pregnancy and sexual ethics, marriage, parenting, and celibacy, pop culture, health and body image, raising girls, and women in the church and parachurch.Her.meneutics is edited by associate editor Katelyn Beaty and online editor Sarah Pulliam Bailey.
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May 2012
- Born This Way? The Moral Universe of 'Glee'
- How God Can Use Your Anxiety for Good
- Ian and Larissa: A Story of Choosing the Hard, Good Road
- For the Love of Pinterest? A Her.meneutics Hangout with Rachel Held Evans, Sarah Bessey, & More
- When Our Sexual Stories Go Off the Christian Map
- How to Smartly Engage with the Young Doubters in Your Midst
- Time’s Breast-Feeding Cover Adds Fuel to the Mommy Wars
- I'm Not Julia: Why Obama's American Woman Doesn't Speak for Me
- Mourning with Those Who Mourn on Mother’s Day
- How Mother’s Day Hype Can Ruin Your Mother’s Day
- Death to the Perfect Christian Woman
- Amazing Grace, How Slow the Work: Why We Still Have Slaves
- HBO’s Girls and Today’s Emerging Adult Women
- Bearing Life in a Broken World: A Review of No Easy Choice
- The Genealogy Gospel: Why We All Want to Know Our Family Tree
- Where Are All the Women Apologists?
- Why Marilynne Robinson, Narrative Calvinist, Doesn't Fear Fox News
April 2012
- Voice of the Victims: Sex Abuse Survivors and the Church
- The Wall Builders: A Parable about the Gender Debates
- The Lament of a Black Neo-Reformed Woman
- Amid Bribery Scandal, Wal-Mart Contest Attracts Christians
- We've Been Duped By Freud on Cross-Gender Friendship: A Response
- Channeling the Mama Bear Effect to Fight Child Abuse
- The Trayvon Martin Case: A Moment for Evangelical Reflection
- Q+A: Jefferson Bethke on the Spiritual Realities of Sex
- Cross-Gender Friendships: What’s Appropriate for Married People?
- Porn, Raquel Welch, and the Power of Our Sexual Imagination
- Kay Warren Talks to CT about Her Battle with Depression
- Why We Can All Opt Out of the 'War on Women'
- No Girls Allowed: Why the Church Shouldn't Follow Augusta National Golf Club's Membership Policy
- Kirk Cameron's 'Monumental' Task
- Why Nancy Sleeth Wants You to Be a Bit More Amish
- Ryan Gosling, Romance Novels, and the Dangers of Fantasizing
- Mourning the Death of Family-Friendly TV
- Shaming Children for Eating Snacks: How Not to Fight Childhood Obesity
- Why Margaret Feinberg Bypasses the ‘Gender Wars’
- What Burma's Chin Refugees Need Beyond Aung San Suu Kyi
March 2012
- Trayvon Martin, Hoodies, and the Power of Images
- An Open Letter to My College Students
- Mike Daisey, Apple, and Our Culture’s Crisis in Truth-Telling
- When Christian Bookstores Ban Female Body Parts
- Is It a Sin to Look Your Age?
- What Jason Russell’s Mental Breakdown Shows Us about Ourselves
- Hungry for the Hunger Games: Why We Need Dystopian Tales
- Confessions of a Lustful Christian Woman
- Five-Senses Spirituality: Why Our Whole Bodies Need God
- Confessions of a Male Feminist
- Marriage: When Pre-Engagement Hopes Meet Reality
- The Best Naked Pregnant Woman on a Magazine Cover
- Dad-in-Chief: Parenting Lessons from Rick Santorum and President Obama
- My Church’s Lenten Challenge: Get a Tattoo
- What A Flight Attendant's Outburst Revealed About My Own Fear
- 'Am I Pretty?': A Troubling Question among Christian Women Like Me
- Why 'Slut' Cuts to the Core--of All of Us
- The Problem with Karen Kingsbury’s Princess Books
- 'Bringing Up Bébé': Critiquing the Newest Parenting ‘It’ Book
- What the 'After-Birth Abortion' and 'Personhood' Debates Have in Common
- Breastfeeding in Church, and Other Petty Crimes
- Owning Redemptive Grief after the Ohio School Shooting
February 2012
- Why a Funeral Is Not the Time to Rejoice
- Duke It Out for Them: Why Kids Need to See Their Parents Fight
- ‘I’m Dad, the Babysitter,’ and Other Cultural Myths
- Role Reversal: The Problem of the Increasing Marginalization of Men
- Coveting Cover to Cover: Why I Gave Up Vogue for Lent
- Marriage, War, and Lent: Practicing Love During Separation
- Want to Follow God? Go to Sleep
- Clothing in Church: Why It Matters
- Fractured Fairy Tale: The Appeal and the Danger of 'Once Upon a Time'
- Unplanned Parenthood: The Blessing of an Inconvenient Pregnancy
- The Problem with Westminster Kennel Club's View of Pet Adoption
- On Valentine’s Day, Praying for Men Who Buy Sex
- Why You Could Be in a 'Sh*tuff People Say' Meme
- Seeing Jesus in the Old Testament: Nancy Guthrie on Her Newest Bible Study
- John Piper and the Rise of Biblical Masculinity
- The Power of Choice in 'Downton Abbey'
- Scared to Death of Death: Facing More Than Gramma’s Mortality
- Why the New Planned Parenthood Controversy Raises Old Questions
- Parenthood: Moving Beyond Facebook Envy to Reality
- Learning the Spiritual Disciplines from a Mormon Blogger
- Why I Let My Kids Cry It Out: A Response
January 2012
- The 99 Problems with Jay-Z’s Use of “B----”
- Christian Catfights: Why Women Leaders Don't Support Each Other
- Marriage: Creating a Partnership, Not Reeling in a Catch
- Making the Most out of Mommy Blogging: The Woman Behind Money Saving Mom
- Real Women Don't Text Back: How Women Fuel the Man-Boy Problem
- Should You Let Your Baby 'Cry It Out'? A Christian Response
- The Woman Who Shelters New York City's Trafficking Victims
- Why Women Leave the Church -- and Come Back Again
- The Best Christian Marriage Book You’ve Never Heard Of
- When the State Took Away My Life: North Carolina Grapples with Sterilization Practice
- The Untapped Potential of the At-Home Mom
- 'Why I Hate Religion But Love Jesus’: To Adore or Abhor?
- 'Miss Representation': How the Media Harms Both Women and Men
- How We Can Harness the New Domesticity Without Diminishing Women
- The Kate Middleton Baby Watch, and Why We Shouldn't Participate
- Learning from Tim Tebow about Workplace Evangelism
- When Higher Education Is Neither: Why Should I Earn a Degree?
- Grieving a Lost Child
- Getting to the Root of Female Masturbation
- Why 'Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' Is Hurting Women
- A Facebook Skeptic? News Flash: You Are in Control
December 2011
- Our Writers' Favorite Posts from 2011
- The Top Her.meneutics Posts of 2011
- Sitting in the Dark, Waiting for Emmanuel
- Beards: A Hairy Topic in My Household
- Why Santa Belongs in Your Kids' Christmas
- Etiquette Isn't for Dummies: How Manners and Ministry Relate
- A Word to Michelle Duggar's Critics: What it Means to Publicly Grieve a Miscarriage
- How 'Modest Is Hottest' Is Hurting Christian Women
- How to Respond to Our All-American Muslim Neighbors
- 'But He Never Hit Me': A Christian Primer on Emotional Abuse
- Birth Pangs: When God Shows Up in Pregnancy
- The Co-Sleeping Controversy and Enduring 'Bad Mom' Glares
- Why Identifying as a Republican—or Democrat—Can Be Idolatrous
- The God of Awkward Virgins
- Should Christians Take Antidepressants?: A Response
- 'Unwanted' Girls Defy Sexism in India
- Sara Zarr Talks Faith, Art, and Imperfect Christians
- Why I'm Okay with Church Failure
November 2011
- Why Women Are Obsessed with Pinterest
- Should Christians Take Antidepressants?
- Advent: Putting the Brakes on Christmas Insanity
- Stop Turning Thanksgiving into a Facebook Like
- The Bible, Gender, and ‘Dad-Mom’ Debate Continues
- The Bible, Gender, and the ‘Dad-Mom’ Debate
- Why Every Workplace Needs Feminine Bosses
- Why Teens Drift Away from Faith
- Success, Honor, and the Legacy of Joe Paterno
- The Truth about Marriage and Happiness
- Saving Men from Their Own Sex Slavery
- Why My Kids (Mostly) Don't Watch TV
- What the Herman Cain Case Reveals about Harassment
- Perfection Obsession: What It Looks Like to Accept Limitations
- Yes, We Can Learn Something from the Kardashian Fiasco
- 'Sex + Money': The Domestic Side of a Global Problem
- Her.meneutics' Fall Reading List
- The Thin Line between Trafficking and Pornography
- Adoption: A Long and Winding Journey
October 2011
- Halloween and the Werewolf Within
- Holy Hot Flashes! A Spiritual Take on Menopause
- Tattooed Barbie: You’ve Come a Long Way!
- A Real Christian Education
- 'Just' a Stay-at-Home Mom
- We're Just Friends. No, Really
- Exotic Animals and Kingdom Ethics
- Why Church Matters
- When Child Discipline Becomes Abuse
- Go Marry, Young Man!
- An Open Letter to DC Comics
- A Christian Response to Gay Bullying
- Why It’s Your Job to Break the Women’s Ministry Stereotype
- Grumble Hallelujah on the Kitchen Floor
- Taking a Break from Your Spouse
- John Ortberg Is My Dad, But Don't Call Me a PK
- A Woman's Place in Christian Higher Ed
- When a Midlife Crisis Becomes Serious
September 2011
- 'Unbroken' by Jesus
- The Saving Grace of a Shared Meal
- Ben & Jerry’s ‘Schweddy Balls’ and Scatological Humor
- Why I No Longer Pray for a Husband
- Spanking in the Spirit?
- Real, Authentic Authenticity
- Coming Home after Hurricane Irene
- Chaz Bono Brings Transgender Issues to TV
- Welcoming Doubt to Christian Education
- Inviting Christ to the Dinner Table
- Why Singles Need Married Friends
- The Sin Behind My Swearing
- Are Evangelical Women Primarily Interested in Parenthood?
- MIA: Men Who Don't Use Pornography
- Inside the Heart of an Animal Hoarder
- My Husband's Affair - with the Church
- Maggie Goes on a Diet: A Story for Children?
August 2011
- PETA to Launch Porn Site
- Christ and My Curly Hair
- Adderall Arrives at Christian Colleges
- 'One Thousand Gifts,' Reconsidered
- How to Avoid Marrying the Wrong Christian
- The Her.meneutics Gender Debates (Part 2)
- The Gender Debates Come to Her.meneutics
- How Much Do Our Stories Matter?
- Three Stories About Reproductive Technology
- The Battle for Bert and Ernie
- Taming the Twitter Tongue
- Sugar Daddies and Abba Father
- Why Dogs Should Be Sent to Court
- Watching 'The Help' as an African American Woman
- Kids' Diets: Why We Need Immovable Love, Not ‘Let’s Move’
- The Newest U.S. Mission Field: Women
- Why Gratitude Is Not Enough
- The War on Chores: Who Should Do More?
- Modesty: Still Missing from the Church
- Photoshop, Patriarchy, and Protection of the Vulnerable
- The Female Friendship Crisis
- When God Told Us to Adopt
July 2011
- The Redemptive Narrative in Jaycee Dugard's Captivity Story
- Two Stories about Babies with Down Syndrome
- Being Loved through Breast Cancer
- My Father Was a Porn Addict
- 'Bridesmaids,' Marriage, and Real Happiness
- A Parenting Manual for Bad Kids
- Doing Authentic Ministry with My Smokin' Hot Bride
- When Sex Becomes an Idol
- Much Ado About Mark Driscoll
- Why We Don't Use Natural Family Planning
- Obama Visit Challenges 'African Woman' Stereotype
- Would Jesus Walk Away from a Mortgage?
- Bachmann, Palin, and the Trouble with 'Evangelical Feminism'
- A Daughter's Grief Observed
- Thoughts on Afghanistan from a Marine Wife
- What You Don't Know about Obama's Mama
- Top 10 Posts of the Month
June 2011
- Reading Scripture with Sex Abuse Survivors
- The Lost Girls of China and India
- Beyonce Is Wrong: Girls Don't Run the World
- Should Christians Pursue External Beauty?
- An Open Letter to Donald Miller on Your Engagement
- How to Talk about Having Children
- What We're Reading This Summer
- Why Men Should Read Jane Austen
- Searching for Abba on Father's Day
- The Cult of the Orgasm
- Raising Yeshua-Followers in the West Bank
- Taste and Smell That the Lord Is Good
- Anthony Weiner, Gnostic
- A Backyard Garden of Grace
- Why Romance Novels Aren't Emotional Porn
- Lessons from an Expletive-Laced Picture Book
- Working for the (Son of) Man
- Why 'Happy' Isn't a Christian Word
May 2011
- Guarding Your Marriage without Dissing Women
- The Top 10 Posts of 2011 - So Far
- Sex and Salvation according to Picasso
- A Horror Film about Childbirth
- Schwarzenegger, Strauss-Kahn, and Power
- A Sketchy Ad from Skechers Shape-Ups
- Why Divorce Devastates Children
- Lady Gaga: Where's the Outrage?
- Gender Differences: All in the Brain
- Food Cleanses and the Integrated Self
- When Christian Teens Doubt
- Beyond SlutWalk: A New Conversation about Sexual Assault
- The Happy Death of Soap Operas
- For Those Grieving on Mother's Day
- Churning Butter in Bonnets with Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Confessions of a Breadwinner Wife
April 2011
- Sin, Grace, and the Royal Wedding
- Sex Sells - So Does Virginity
- 'Three Cups of Tea,' Three Cups of Me
- How Do I Explain Easter to My Children?
- A Christian Woman's Midlife Crisis
- Why I Let My Son Wear Pink
- Obese and Beautiful
- The Praying Artist: God Is My Editor
- Rethinking the Death Penalty
- Navigating the Sea of Electronic Media
- The Praying Pedestrian: A Lenten Discipline
- Liberty U. Students on Interracial Marriage Trends
- 'It Must Stop'
- Keeping Kids Junk-Food Free
March 2011
- Confessions of a Beth Moore Convert
- Should Christians Use Self-Help Programs?
- Bill Maher Slurs Sarah Palin, NOW Responds
- Where Are All the Women City Leaders?
- When Christians Get Divorced
- How I Learned to Love a Show about Mormon Polygamy
- Prayers for Japan's Unborn Children
- The Divine Grace of Diapers and Dirty Laundry
- 'Mother Teresa of Our Age' Talks to Her.meneutics
- The Newest Gnostic Christian Diet
- Assaulted Woman to Be Kept Alive, Rules India Court
- The Charlie Sheen Has Worn Off
- The King's Speech and Doulas
- Catherine Clark Kroeger, Remembered
- Women Step to Frontline in Mideast Protests
- Toddlers, Tiaras, and Surviving Princess Mania
February 2011
- The Gospel of Grace for Women Who Self-Injure
- The Social Network's Women Problem
- Live Action, Planned Parenthood, and a Year of Change
- A New Mission for the Burnt-Out Mom
- The Argument for Girl-Boy Wrestling
- Christian Dating Do-Over
- Michael Vick's Long Road to Recovery
- Why Your Church Needs a Dr. Oz
- Why Barbie Needs Ken After All
- Facebook Envy on Valentine's Day
- The State of Sex
- 'When Gender-Based Parenting Goes Too Far': Author Response
- Ohio Mom Gets Jailtime for Better Education
- The No-Makeup Spiritual Discipline
- Are Single Women Too Picky?
- When Gender-Based Parenting Goes Too Far
January 2011
- What Are Wedding Vows For, Anyway?
- Carla Barnhill, America's Next Advice Columnist?
- The Untold Story of Donor-Conceived Children
- Surprised by Beauty at the March for Life
- Christians Launch Anti-Slavery Efforts for Super Bowl XLV
- 'Skins' Prompts Call for Child Porn Investigation
- Why I Don't Keep a Mommy Blog
- Miss America and the Bikini Question
- A Woman, Not a 'Gestational Carrier'
- Why I Don’t Want to Be a Chinese Mother
- Blessed Are Those with Alzheimer's
- Troubled by the Twiblings?
- The Virgins-Only Dating Website
- 'Passport through Darkness' Gives Victims Voice
- Is Your Church Open to Autism?
- What Celebrity Miscarriages Teach Us
- Honeymoon with Mom and Dad
- A Tarnished Silver Anniversary
- Another Assault on Little Girls
December 2010
- Our Favorite Books by Women
- The Top 10 Her.meneutics Posts of the Year
- The Best Ever Christmas Gift
- Nancy Pearcey: How to Respond to Doubt
- What Is the Stay-at-Home Daughters Movement?
- Lynne Hybels: My Lazy Christmas Wish
- Holiday Shopping for Jesus
- 'Happy Holidays' in Church?
- 'Tangled,' Kate Middleton, and Modern Princesses
- Virtual Flirting Comes to Christian Colleges
- A Peter Singer Sympathizer Changes His Mind
- Christ Lifts the Widow's Veil
- 'Hallelujah' Comes to the Food Court
- Steve Johnson's Genie-in-a-Bottle God
November 2010
- Wired Magazine's Women Problem
- Happy Wastegiving?
- When Mom and Dad Move In
- Don't Think Pink
- Christian Woman Sentenced to Hanging for Blasphemy
- Secular People Need Sabbaths, Too
- Social Media Addict Seeks Connection, Escape
- In the Shadow of Miscarriage
- Why I Boycotted Amazon This Week
- The American Red Cross's Knight in Shining Pearls
- The Great Chinese Orphan Rescuer
- Doctrine in Diapers
- Sarah Palin's Rogue Comments
- Rumblings About Women at Lausanne
- Girls in Sports No Longer 'Tomboys'
- Friday Night Lights' Shining Female Lead
- Apple Takes a Bite Out of Sexting
October 2010
- The Best Christian Halloween Party
- Why Should the Devil Get Halloween?
- Actually, It Takes Much More Than a Village
- Why Sex Ruins TV Romances
- Women Take Election Spotlight
- Mildred Jefferson: 'A Physician, a Citizen, and a Woman'
- Outsourcing Baby-Making in India
- Her.meneutics' Favorite Picture Books
- Freed by Bill Clinton, Saved by Jesus
- Abortion Case: Womb vs. Egg
- Top 10 Posts of the Summer
- Why There's No Narnia in Our Home
- Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, and a Young Man's Death
- Domestic Abuse: Coming to a Church Near You
- A Concerning Nobel Prize
- When Doubt Comes to Church
- Why Parenting May Be Your 'Highest' Calling
- The Unfunny Side of Modern Feminism
September 2010
- The Trouble with Confessing in Church
- How Christians Will Save America's Schools
- Young, Single Women Outearn Male Counterparts
- Does God Want Us to Suffer?
- Is Pain Relief a Human Right?
- Why I Envy Young Nuns
- Not Everyone Is Praying for Christopher Hitchens Today
- Craigslist Gives Up 'Adult Services' in the United States
- How the Iraq War Has Affected Women
- An Argument against 'Settling Down'
- A New Message at the Strip Club-Church Showdown
- Anorexia and the Body of Christ
- ChristWire and Good Satire
- 500 Women and Children Raped in Congo
- A Course in Dying 101
- James Lee and 'Filthy Human Children'
- Burqa Watching in Great America
August 2010
- Avoiding Old Flames on Facebook
- Simplicity: It's Complicated
- My Encounter with Mental Illness
- Midlife Matters: An Interview with Dale Hanson Bourke
- Preserving Man and Beast
- Top 10 Posts of the Past 30 Days
- Have We Forgotten Haiti?
- A Theology of Jiggly Thighs
- The No-Fault-Divorce Nation
- How the Movie Partly Redeems 'Eat Pray Love'
- Why We Envy Elizabeth Gilbert
- Snakes on a (Spiritual) Plane
- India: It's Complicated
- 'Eat Pray Love' Book Club Discussion
- An Open Letter to Anne Rice
- Celebrate National B-----Feeding Month
- The Friendless, Voiceless Disney Princess
- Olive Kitteridge: A Wretch Like Me
- Seeking a Spouse? Lighten Up
July 2010
- The Glamorous Life of the Pregnant Teenager
- News Flash: Dads Are Nurturing
- Parenting Imperfecta
- Grieving a Miscarriage
- Why I Can't Boycott Mel Gibson
- How Many Kids Should We Have?
- Multitasking: Bad for the Soul
- You're Never 'Ready' to Parent
- Following Christ at a Porn Convention
- Church Volunteers: An Oxymoron
- 'Eat, Pray, Love' Book Club
- The Top 10 of 2010 -- So Far
- Stalked by a Priest
- The 'D Word' at U.S. Christian Colleges
- Skinny Jeans, Nose Jobs, and Jesus
June 2010
- Confessions of a Church-Skipping Mom
- The Perils of Christian Chick Lit
- Why Dads Matter
- Before the Next After-Sex Pill
- Q+A: Selling Girls on Craigslist
- Glee: Stereotype Me!
- Ooh La La over Lady Gaga
- What a Father Remembers
- Growing Gardens to the Glory of God
- Sexy Evangelism
- Women with the Self-Doubt Syndrome
- When a Daughter Must Parent Her Parents
- Top 10 Posts of the Past 30 Days
- Offering Grace to Infertile Couples
- The Hutterites: Beyond Bonnets and Buggies
- Her.meneutics' Summer Reading List
- Little Girls and Single Ladies
- Jason Boyett’s 'O Me of Little Faith'
May 2010
- Iranian Christian Women Acquitted
- A Bikinied Muslim Miss USA
- I Once Was 'Lost' But Now Am Found
- No Right to Rest for Weary Anglicans
- Christian Female Musicians, Missing in Action
- Adultery: My Genes Made Me Do It
- Modesty: A Female-Only Virtue?
- The Secret (Moral) Life of Babies
- Blogger Lynn Roush Talks to WORD-fm on Marital Health
- Problems with Do-It-Yourself DNA Tests
- The Anti-Racist, Anti-Fear Gene
- Toying with Adultery?
- It's Mother's Day, Not Motherhood Day
- Abortion Measures Move State-à-State
- Perplexed by the Pill
- Marriage: A Dying to the Self
- Top 10 Posts of the Past 30 Days
April 2010
- Afghan Girls Poisoned for Attending School
- Barbara Brown Taylor Builds 'An Altar in the World'
- The Hard Realities of International Adoption
- Female Sex Addict: Not an Oxymoron
- Female and Athletic: College Basketball's Gender Dilemma
- Yoga: An Exercise in Discernment
- Breastfeed for the Health of the Nation?
- Lady Gaga: Champion of Abstinence?
- Art That Reveals Our Need for Grace
- A Failed 'Date Night'
- A Higher Calling Than Barbie
- The Brave Women of the Catholic Church
- iHave an iPad, But at What Cost?
- Turning Child's Play into a Passion Play
- Cosmetic Surgery to the Glory of God?
- Review: Anne Lamott's 'Imperfect Birds'
- Caught between the Easter Bunny and the Empty Grave
March 2010
- Technology's Dark Underbelly
- Therefore Let Us Keep the Feast
- Minnesota Man Arrested for Prostituting Wife
- Learning from the Cornell Suicides
- Mixed-Gender Housing, and Mixed-Gender Friendship
- Top 10 Posts of the Past 30 Days
- Get Your Free Human Eggs
- The History of Glenn Beck's 'Social Justice'
- Addicted to Books
- Finding the Right Words for Disability
- Joni Eareckson Tada: Health Care Bill Concerns
- 'Femivores' and Food Ethics
- A Sinking Argument on Gender and Courage
- Should Pro-lifers Call Black Children an 'Endangered Species'?
- A Black Maid's Expose
- 'Why Don't You Just Adopt?'
- Citing Modesty, Two Women Refuse Full-Body Scans
- Are Chick Flicks 'Emotional Porn'?
- Michelle Obama Tackles Childhood Obesity
- Lead in Your Lipstick, Carcinogens in Your Hair Color
February 2010
- Eliminating Suffering or Eliminating People?
- Why Boys Are Failing in the Classroom
- Pregnant Olympians Are Not 'Selfish'
- Gay Marriage Leads D.C. Archbishop to End Foster Care Program
- Top 10 Posts of the Past 30 Days
- A New Frontier in Pro-Life Stem-Cell Research
- Why I'm Giving Up Counting Calories for Lent
- Hookup Culture: Mostly a Myth
- Female Olympians, Missing in Action
- Singing Praises in Port-au-Prince
- Did You Consider Having an Abortion?
- Botox: A Threat to Our National Security
- Saving the Life of a Shaken Baby
- Is Self-Promotion Sinful?
- When to Leave if You Can't Cleave
- Reading to Enrich a Child's Soul
January 2010
- A Walk to Beautiful: A Must-See Film
- Shaunti Feldhahn: What Hinders Women at Work
- In Iran, a Covert Mission to Bring Women to Jesus
- Women at Halftime: Where to Go Next?
- Iris Robinson, Jesus Loves You More Than You Will Know
- Top 10 Posts of the Past 30 Days
- 'I Lived Next Door to a Brothel'
- Saved by Spanking
- China's Own Marriage Crisis
- Dr. Grace Augustine: Avatar's Christian Character?
- Where Was God in the Earthquake?
- Would I Have Hid Jews During the Holocaust?
- Facebook and the Amazing Technicolor Bra Update
- Disney Croaks with Newest Princess Film
- Confession: I Stopped Giving to the Church
- Police Arrest Woman Praying at Western Wall
- N.C. Court Upholds Sex Offenders' Right to Worship
- Resolving to Fail in 2010
December 2009
- Matchmaker, Matchmaker, I Don't Want a Match
- LaVonne's Top 40 Books of the Decade
- The Top 10 Her.meneutics Posts of the Year
- Consider the Vampire
- When Stem Cell Research Isn’t Embryonic
- The Real Problem with Mary's Baby Bump
- The Trouble with Depicting Jesus
- Gimme that Christian Side Hug
- 'Love Thy Neighbor' Shows Up at Copenhagen
- Christmas Cooking with Nigella (or Jesus)
- Baby Dies Aboard United Airways Flight: A Response
- The Joys of a False Positive
- Should Christians See 'Precious'?
- Dave Ramsey, Megan McArdle, and Jesus
- Holiday Generosity: Now a Click Away
November 2009
- 'The Blind Side' Reaches Across Class and Race
- Going Rogue: An American (Pro-)Life Woman
- I Have a Confession to Make
- Iranian Christian Women Freed from Evin Prison
- Silencing the Maternal Nag
- Stanton Jones, CedarvilleOUT Come to Campus
- Top 10 Posts of the Last 30 Days
- Carrie Prejean's Book Urges Women to Stand Up for Beliefs
- Are We Obsessed with 'Cute'?
- A Quest to Question Mainstream Media
- Planned Parenthood Puts Restraining Order on Former Director
- The Day We Let Our Son Live
- Wheaton Students Advocate for Woman President
October 2009
- Reforming a Girls' Reformatory
- In the Loop: Down syndrome abortions on the rise
- It's a Not-So-Happy But Wonderful Life
- Are You Happy Now?
- What Christian Women Want Now
- Penny Pinching as a Christian Virtue?
- Where Someone Loves Us Most of All
- The Goal in Mind
- Addicted…to Facebook
- Cancer’s Mercies
- Trouble with Online Love
- Mazel tov for Jewish Women
- Mixed Reports on Abortion
- In the Loop: Matters of Life and Death
- Top 10 Posts of the Last 30 Days
- This Is Your Brain on Evangelicalism
- Banned Books and Blasphemy
- Signs of Faith in Sarah Palin's Book?
- In the Loop: Two Memoirs, One Tweet, and No Votes for Letterman
- Stranded in Manila, A Mother Prays
- Redeeming Roman Polanski
September 2009
- 'Homeless Chic' and the Homeless
- Does Religiosity Encourage Teen Pregnancy?
- Snakes, Spiders, and the Science of Gender
- A Good Man Is Hard to Find
- In the Loop: Christians in Court, Women in the Army, and Writing on Faith
- Keri Wyatt Kent: The Priority of Neighbor-Love
- U.K. Christian Says Yes to Abstinence, No to Gardasil
- In the Loop: Pre-Sex Prayer, More Women Pastors, and Father-Daughter Baseball Bonding
- Anne Graham Lotz, the Church, and Me
- Adoption: Single Christians Need Not Apply
- In the Loop: The Women's Blog News Roundup
- The Confusing Case of Caster Semenya
- The Case for Male Circumcision
- The President's Speech and Parental Rights
- Top 10 Posts of the Last 30 Days
- In Their Own Words: Laura Ling and Euna Lee
- What the TNIV Means for Evangelical Women
- Girl Dumps God
August 2009
- Juanita Bynum Returns to Conference Stage
- Quest for a Father’s Love
- Half the Sky: A Must-Read Book
- The Lutherans and Twister Theology
- Breast-feeding Dolls: Cute or Creepy?
- Running in the Shadow of 9/11
- Teaching an Old Dogfighter New Tricks
- Jenny Sanford Offers Forgiveness After Husband's Affair
- So, How Are Those Summer Reading Lists Coming?
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver, 1921-2009
- The Persecuted Rifqa Bary?
- Deciphering the Pennsylvania Gym Shooting
- Beauty Pageant for Landmine Victims Scrapped
- Top 10 Most Popular Posts, July
- Women Pastors Remain Scarce
- Pants-Wearing Woman Challenges Sudan's Decency Law
- The Horrors of Orphan
- The Charismatic Alberto Cutie
- Florida's Other Marriage Amendment
- Young Pups in Love
July 2009
- 2D Love and Lars and the Real Girl
- China Eases One-Child Policy in Shanghai
- Dancing Down the Aisle
- Corrupt Clergy and Forgiveness
- The Urban Chicks Movement
- Journalists Link Rising Teen Pregnancy Rates to Bush Administration
- Jimmy Carter Speaks Up on Women
- Of God and Galaxies
- Building Up Without Walls
- Julia Duin: The Anna Syndrome
- Cohabiting Couples on the Rise
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