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The #metoo and #churchtoo movements have put SBC leaders on the defensive, as earlier revelations of widespread child sexual abuse by priests did to the all-male Roman Catholic hierarchy. Yet both groups continue to deny that there could be any connection between all-male power and the sexual abuse of women and children.

Unlike the vast majority of the pro-family movement, which is almost exclusively white and middle-class, these separations have largely affected people of color.

Both this administration and this Supreme Court have proved all too willing, in recent months, to prioritize the individual entitlements and business interests of white Christian men.

“The thing most of us have been talking about is to encourage the use of medical technology, the morning-after pills and very good new drugs. There are already very interesting groups of women my age feeling we could take the risk of loading up our vans to take road trips and give them out at churches.”

Jesuitical: crafty; sly; intriguing.

When will we unite the fragments of important and useful single-issue activism under a shared understanding that we need to slay the dragon of finance capitalism joined to white supremacy?

Surely most of us, no matter our political bent, feel sad for the entrapped children in both circumstances. But our collective conscience leads us to two different interventions on their behalf.

One critic was like, “Rachel Held Evans bases her Biblical interpretation on all the feels”… So I took a picture of my endnotes, which are lengthy, and sent them to him with the note, “All the feels, page 1,” “All the feels, page 2”…