Anna Broadway is a writer, avid knitter, and modestly ambitious cook living near San Francisco. She’s the author of Sexless in the City, a memoir of reluctant chastity, and and a contributor to Faith at the Edge. She holds an M.A. in religious studies from Arizona State University and has written for Books and Culture, Comment (online), Beliefnet, the Art House America blog, Godspy, The Journal of the History of Sexuality, Paste (online), Radiant, and Relevant (online). She is a former volunteer editor for The New Pantagruel. Follow her on Twitter @annabroadway.
Banking on God Alone: Why I Won’t Be Freezing My Eggs | Confronting the barrenness of prolonged singleness amid an uncertain relational future. (May 24, 2012)
Ryan Gosling, Romance Novels, and the Dangers of Fantasizing | The problem isn’t that we long for something better. It’s that we long for too small of things. (April 5, 2012)
On Valentine’s Day, Praying for Men Who Buy Sex | Why I’m praying for the johns today—and you can, too. (February 14, 2012)
The Woman Who Shelters New York City’s Trafficking Victims | Faith Huckel, founder and director of Restore NYC, took her social-work skills and a heap of prayer to launch the city’s first and only long-term aftercare shelter for foreign-born trafficking victims. (January 23, 2012)
The God of Awkward Virgins | Can he be trusted? (December 7, 2011)
Why I No Longer Pray for a Husband | Lessons in longing, hunger and trust (September 26, 2011)
The Cult of the Orgasm | Thinking Christianly about the vibrator boom and unsatisfied sexual desire (June 16, 2011)
The Praying Artist: God Is My Editor | How praying through my work changed me (part 2) (April 13, 2011)
The Praying Pedestrian: A Lenten Discipline | How praying for my neighborhood changed it (part 1 of a 2-part series) (April 7, 2011)
Snakes on a (Spiritual) Plane | The varieties of Elizabeth Gilbert’s spiritual experiences (August 16, 2010)
Seeking a Spouse? Lighten Up | Could ‘dating cards’ help Christians take their love lives a little less seriously? (August 2, 2010)
Why I Can’t Boycott Mel Gibson | And it’s not because he’s ‘too talented,’ as Salon wrote last week (July 22, 2010)
