Deciding What Comes Next Here

Clarification in May 2025 – This was written when I had a website called A Woman’s Freedom in Christ.

I haven’t been writing much here for two reasons.

One, my time is very limited and my family needs me to focus on income-generating endeavors.

And, two, because I’m really not sure what to write. I find myself feeling a lot of things regarding these topics and none of them are conducive to writing here.

I’m really tired of angry people. I don’t want to be an angry person about these topics. I’m weary of debates and people looking for the worst in each other.

If I were to start a website called “A Woman’s Freedom in Christ” from scratch, I would do something very different now. This website is what it is because I wrote it as I was going through various circumstances over the past fifteen to twenty years. I’ve left it up as a record of that experience.

Much of the content no longer makes as much sense as when I wrote it because people finding it now lack context for what was happening at the time. Many scandals are long past. Abusive leaders have been removed. And so the content feels old.

I find myself vacillating between sadness and anger and other emotions as I observe women in this culture and in the church at large. I have come to despise (yes, despise) the word feminist over the past few years. I grieve for the way I see Christian women flocking to embrace attitudes and actions in the name of “Christian” feminism that are contrary to the Bible. It sickens me to my core to see hateful attitudes displayed toward men in general, especially by those who claim to be Christians. The anti-male attitude is so contrary to what Christ intends in the ekklesia I don’t understand how Christian women cannot see it and even participate in it. With the increasing anti-male rhetoric, women are becoming what they apparently despised when they became feminists in the first place.

I have chosen to identify myself as a conservative biblical egalitarian because it was the only way I could accurately describe my thinking at this point. And yet I have never been completely comfortable with the term egalitarian. I do believe men and women are different and complement each other. I think a Christian has to really close his or her eyes to the reality of creation to deny this. And yet I see people who call themselves Christians denying this all the time.

So I’m weary of the entire thing. I am not interested in fighting wars over these topics.

I also don’t want to be associated with these wars and I feel that by leaving this site here I am doing so in some small way. That my thoughts will be lumped in with those I find contrary to Christ. And I don’t want that.

So that’s where I am. I really like the name of the site and will keep the domain. But, in all honesty, I think I will shortly just delete the whole thing and either start from scratch or simply let it go and redirect all traffic to my main website. I would prefer to write about raising godly daughters and having a happy marriage in conjunction with what I write about over there instead of writing here about all that is bad and ugly in the church today.

Thanks for reading.

Sallie