On Saturday August 6th, 2022, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, a man named Francoise Littlejohn (age 30) pulled into a neighborhood and parked in the 11300 block of Treemont Lane, and heinously executed his three children and turned the gun on himself in an act of intimate partner violence-related homicide-suicide. Not only am I grieved by…
No…Single Christian Women Aren’t “Uncovered”
"Are you uncovered like the majority of Black women?" The quote above was said to me (in a discussion on Facebook) by a professing Christian Black man who claims to be a minister of Jesus Christ. Over the past 14 years that I've been on social media, I've noticed an uptick in ungodly, unbiblical, unhistorical,…
Women in Abusive Marriages Aren’t Obligated to “Exhaust All Options and Resources”
I was going through my emails this morning and I came across a long response by someone who commented on one of my blog articles about spousal abuse. The comment had a number of problems, but one of the problems that stood out to me the most was the statement that women who are married…
“The Husband Has the Final Say” and Other Sexist Myths [Lori Alexander, The Transformed Wife]
I was browsing Facebook today, and I came across the following post by Lori Alexander: Just Who is Lori Alexander? Lori Alexander is a blogger, author, and mentor of women. She has an older blog called “Always Learning” and a more recent blog called “The Transformed Wife.” Lori also has a Facebook page where critical comments often disappear down…
When I Was Single, Jesus Wasn’t My Husband
The other day, a girlfriend and I were hanging out and conversing about life, and the subject of relationships came up. We spoke about some of the challenges that women face in singleness and marriage and how the cliche "Jesus is my husband" romanticizes the Lord and can be an unhealthy coping mechanism and a form of…