@elizabethmckenney.bsky.social
Sometimes studying Christian(ish) ethics of sex. Sometimes analyzing purity movement rhetoric. Always embodying Old Man Yelling at Clouds.
those He Gets Us ads have me fighting for my life with my Muslim bff to defend our foot fetish religion
February 13, 2024 at 6:10 PM
Orthodox / Catholic / Protestant
November 5, 2023 at 7:33 PM
All of my plans for productivity today have been thwarted by UVA football. Mine and my neighbors' baby's least favorite part was the flyover.
November 4, 2023 at 6:26 PM
Today in life as a pedestrian in CVille, a driver flipped ME off after not yielding to me in a crosswalk.
September 27, 2023 at 8:07 PM
Well, I still don't seem to be able to get a car loan approved as a grad student. So which of my organs do you think I could sell for a cool 10k?
September 26, 2023 at 12:52 AM
How I think I look trying to market myself:
September 14, 2023 at 1:00 AM
Theologians, knocking it out of the park with romantic advice once again.
September 13, 2023 at 8:26 PM
The library is sending me threatening emails, but at $1 a day it's still much cheaper to pay the late fine than to buy my own book for this seminar. So if the library wants to tell me which of my bills they'll cover next month, then we'll talk.
September 10, 2023 at 12:38 PM
Kind of surprised by how many metaphors Hegel draws from nature. Acorns, chicory, blossoms and seeds. It's not what I think of first when I think about his writing style.
September 4, 2023 at 1:53 PM
Hozier's last album ended with an apocalypse and his new album opens with allusions to creation myths. Idk if you could get a dissertation out of the use of religious themes in his discography, but you could definitely get a 20,000 word Tumblr post and I would read all of it.
August 23, 2023 at 6:46 PM
The upstairs neighbors have flooded our apartment on the eve of my TA class. Please pray for my floorboards.
August 23, 2023 at 2:53 AM
I need the people who made sentence maps of the first line of The Scarlett Letter or whatever it was a few months ago to come back and interpret Karl Rahner for me.
August 22, 2023 at 8:29 PM
Catch my guest appearance on What the Hell is a Pastor here, in which we talk about the purity culture classic that doesn't get half the scrutiny it deserves, Dannah Gresh's "And the Bride Wore White" https://t.co/yhyVbghR5s
And the Bride Wore White: A Review (Part 1) by What the Hell is a Pastor?
CN: Purity Culture, violence towards women, sexual assault In which scholar Elizabeth Anne McKenney joins Ethan and Jo to discuss a book that we're again not going to link here. You can find Beth on t...
t.co
August 21, 2023 at 9:54 PM
Reposted
The further you read, the worse it gets.

If you ever doubted that draconian abortion laws are about hating women (and not caring about the unborn), this case makes it very clear.
A prison guard says she was forced to stay at her post during labor p…
The seven-months-pregnant officer reported contraction-like pains at work, but said she wasn’t allowed to leave for hours. The anti-abortion state is fighting her lawsuit, in part by saying her fetu...
www.texastribune.org
August 12, 2023 at 2:04 PM