Emerging Women

Let’s talk about sex. No, we’re not just trying to drive up the blog hits. Just the fact that we are a group of women here discussing faith and real life lands us all sorts of interesting Google search hits. No, we just simply want to explore our diverse perspectives on sex.

Over the next week or two (starting this afternoon) most of the posts here at Emerging Women will focus on some aspect of sex. We will explore, among other topics, the freedoms women can find when we aren’t viewed as sex objects, the healing that can come to those who suffer from sexual abuse, the messages that modern American Christianity sends about sex, and our celebration of our sexuality. These posts have been submitted by a diverse group of women – each with her own unique perspective. They might disagree with each other – and that’s okay, that’s kinda the point of exploring perspectives.

So I invite you to respectfully engage in this dialogue. Join us on this exploration of sexuality as we learn from each other.

I am happy to announce that the long awaited changes here at Emerging Women have finally arrived. I’m excited to be moving ahead with this community and look forward to our future conversations. Most of the Emerging Women members already know about these changes, but for the broader community of readers, here’s a summary of what’s happening and why.

- From now on, Emerging Women will exist exclusively at this domain – www.emergingwomen.us. Some of you may already be using this address, but until now it simply forwarded to the blogspot site. We will no longer be hosted at Blogger, so please update your links!

- The continued growth of Emerging Women means that we can no longer function as a membership based blog – there’s just too many of us! But we will continue to be as open source as possible. We still want the blog to represent the voices and thoughts of a wide variety of women, so we are looking for your submissions. We are still looking for articles, book/movie reviews, stories, interviews, creative writings, questions, resources, links, and news items to share on the blog. So feel free to send those submissions at any time to emergingwomen(at)gmail(dot)com to be posted.

- But even without membership, Emerging Women desires to be a resource helping connect those in the emerging church to the women’s voices in its midst. We will continue to have two blogrolls for this purpose. One will feature any (appropriate) emerging woman blogger who wants to be on the list. The other will include any websites, organizations, or men’s blogs who want to be “friends of emerging women.” The point is to connect us all together.

- All of the old posts are here at the new blog. It just might take some time to update the author info on each one.

I’m excited to see how the conversation develops and look forward to reconnecting with all of you here.  As we get the conversation rolling here, I’d love to hear your thoughts.  How can this blog be improved? What topics do you wish we would cover?  What activities should we resurrect (book club, weekly round-ups…) or create for the blog?  What resources should we provide?  How can we best serve women in the emerging church conversation?

- Julie Clawson