Shattered Identity: Book Excerpt

My new writer friend, Jennifer Luitwieler, has been running a series at her blog on Identity. I had the privilege of contributing to the series which was posted up today. It's an excerpt from my book project, Unladylike, which I have been feverishly working on all summer. 


Here's a taste....then mosey on over to Jennifer's blog to see the rest of it:

There are a thousand messages that challenge a girl everyday if she is girly enough, but for the Christian female, there is the added weight if she is a proper Christian woman. And to be a Proper Christian Woman means for many women to be subservient to the status-quo of traditionalism that men lead and women submit. This presents a dilemma for those women who have felt called to the pulpit only to come up against a stained-glass ceiling of Christianized sexism. “Women can’t be pastors,” they’ve been told, “for that’s not biblical.” The Christian woman who is eager to please God has a hard time reconciling the tension.  I’m not called to be a pastor, but I have felt the sting of that ceiling, of the limitations put on me and my kind because we were born female. But along my path of womanhood have come different mileposts of liberation, pivotal moments that untethered my identity a bit more from the web of lies that I was born into.  (Read the entire excerpt...)