SHARON BECK-DORAN

Consider this question: Is it possible that the Bible wasn’t meant to be a prescriptive handbook for sexual relationships?

In 6th grade I competed in the regional Pace Bowl. It’s like a Science Bowl, but for Christian school kids. We were a team of 4 and each...

I pumped up my air pods with the soundtrack from “The Preacher’s Wife” (1996). I needed something today. It was one of those days when my...

Why did I find the word “love” so offensive? The lady pastor’s book club is reading Redeeming Sex by Debra Hirsch. A passage, referring...

Barbieland is the place where women do everything and hold all of the power. It’s meant to be a reflection of patriarchy...

My curiosity around faith and sexuality has led me on an interesting path of discovery. I’m finding answers to questions I hadn’t...

Mortified that my crush might figure me out, I spent much of my early years trying to hide my feelings. I was sure boys didn’t like me....

Last November I started telling the story of my first sexual experience. The idea was both compelling and frightening. I didn’t want to...

This message that women talk too much is ingrained in evangelical culture. We'll examine the source and talk about where we go from here.

Discussing the debate over women leaders in the Southern Baptist Church, I examine the doctrine of complementarianism.

A couple of weeks ago I started seeing social media posts about revival breaking out again at Asbury University. I’ll confess I had some...

You know how some parents are afraid to talk to their kids about sex? Yeah, that was not an issue for my parents. Growing up we had...

It was Thursday night and I was at my favorite church youth group. I liked this one because I often felt a sense of God’s presence. Also...

After workouts every morning my girlfriends and I have coffee. It’s the main reason that most of us show up at 5:15am in the freezing...

I was treated differently from the moment that I was born. Ok, from the moment after the moment I was born. My dad, so sure it would be a...

When I think of the feminist movement, I don’t think of burning bras or bored housewives. I think of my grandma Beck who supported her...

On my 14th birthday in 1995, I said, “Goodbye” to all my friends and promised to write. My parents boarded a jet with my baby brother and...

I used to be a gym-goer. January was the worst. I could never find a parking spot. All I wanted to do was get on the elliptical machine...

Most years I board the plane for Reno to visit family with all the mindfulness of a fence post. When I was a pastor, I loved Advent but...

It’s been a strange couple of years, am I right?! I’m tired of blaming things on the pandemic, but it really disrupted the whole world....