Katelyn Beaty

Christianity Today March 19, 2009

Katelyn Beaty is associate editor at Christianity Today magazine, where she manages Her.meneutics and is editorial director of the This Is Our City project. She covers news related to gender, family, and sexuality, and copy edits the magazine. She graduated from Calvin College with a BA in communications in 2006, and studied theology at Oxford University for a semester thereafter. She enjoys the outdoors, travel, and of course, words. Follow Katelyn at @KatelynBeaty.

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Miss America and the Bikini Question | Do modern-day pageants ask young evangelical women to compromise their values an itsy-bitsy teeny-weeny too much? (January 20, 2011)

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Stalked by a Priest | Donna Freitas’s This Gorgeous Game, about a priest obsessed with a teenage girl, is a work of deep empathy and disturbing believability. (July 7, 2010)

Modesty: A Female-Only Virtue? | Scripture suggests that modesty means more than keeping the right parts covered. (May 18, 2010)

Female Sex Addict: Not an Oxymoron | Marnie Ferree’s No Stones: Women Redeemed from Sexual Addiction challenges easy assumptions about who gets addicted and why. (April 26, 2010)

Female and Athletic: College Basketball’s Gender Dilemma | Gay bloggers’ backlash to Christian coach’s pro-family statement highlights the NCAA’s messy relationship with femininity. (April 23, 2010)

Citing Modesty, Two Women Refuse Full-Body Scans | Pope Benedict and Muslim scholars have warned that the scanners—slated for major U.S. airports—violate principles of human dignity and chastity. (March 8, 2010)

Why I’m Giving Up Counting Calories for Lent | The practice has led me to believe, erroneously, that thinness is a virtue. (February 17, 2010)

N.C. Court Upholds Sex Offenders’ Right to Worship | When extending grace and protecting ‘little ones’ clash. (January 6, 2010)

Top 10 Her.meneutics Posts of the Year | 2009 was the year of viral dance videos, Christians mired in pageant scandals, reality TV marriages, and church burnout thrown in for good measure. (December 28, 2009)

Should Christians See ‘Precious’? | What is the spiritual benefit of watching hard-to-watch films? (December 4, 2009)

Top 10 Posts of the Last 30 Days | What you read during the month of October. (November 12, 2009)

Wheaton Students Advocate for Woman President | An open letter encourages selection committee to commit to ‘ethnic, economic, and gender diversity.’ (November 2, 2009)

Top 10 Posts of the Last 30 Days | What you may have missed on Her.meneutics in September. (October 13, 2009)

The Confusing Case of Caster Semenya | The South African runner may lose her gold medal after gender test results are released. (September 11, 2009)

Top 10 Posts of the Last 30 Days If you didn’t catch them the first time, here are the most popular posts from August. (September 8, 2009)

What the TNIV Means for Evangelical Women | To see it go won’t mean that much, actually. (September 3, 2009)

The Persecuted Rifqa Bary? | Christians rally support for a 17-year-old believer who says her Muslim parents have threatened to kill her. Should they believe her? (August 13, 2009)

Top 10 Most Popular Posts, July | A round-up of the most popular posts of the last 30 days. (August 10, 2009)

Pants-Wearing Woman Challenges Sudan’s Decency Law | Lubna Hussein says she’ll take 40,000 whippings if it will change her human-rights-challenged government. (August 6, 2009)

Where Does Francis Collins Stand on Stem-Cell Research? | The question is more pressing now that he is heading the National Institutes of Health. (July 13, 2009)

Top 10 Most Popular Posts, v. 3 | A round-up of the most popular posts of the last 30 days. (July 8, 2009)

Women’s Ordination: A Crack in the Cathedral? | Female bishops outlawed, female priests tacitly allowed at last week’s Anglican gathering in Bedford, Texas. (July 2, 2009)

Supreme Court Rules Girl’s Strip Search Unconstitutional | Lone female justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg spoke up for the 13-year-old who had to undress before school officials in 2003. (June 30, 2009).

Schuller’s Eldest Daughter to Lead Crystal Cathedral | Sheila Schuller Coleman to become her father’s ‘legs’ in new role. (June 11, 2009)

Top 10 Most Popular Posts, v. 2 | What you clicked on the most during the second month of Her.meneutics. (June 9, 2009)

Media Lukewarm on Laodicean’s Meaning | Last night’s spelling bee champ rattled off the word with ease, but media today haven’t yet connected the Greek adjective to the Bible. (May 29, 2009)

Q+A: Kaffie McCullough on Craigslist | A top advocate for stopping child prostitution is skeptical about Craigslist’s decision to pull its ‘erotic services’ ads. (May 14, 2009)

Women Benefit from Health-Care Overhaul | The failing industry says it will stop charging women at higher premium rates than it charges men. (May 6, 2009).

Miss CA Becomes Ad Spokeswoman for Traditional Marriage | Meanwhile, two pageant directors say they paid for Prejean’s breast implants weeks before Miss USA. (May 1, 2009).

Elizabeth Lev Defends Mom’s Decision to Turn Down Notre Dame | She may be a bit biased, but her response is still spot-on. (April 29, 2009)

The Other Miss California Controversy | Carrie Prejean might have stood up for Christian sexual ethics by skipping the Miss USA pageant altogether. (April 24, 2009)

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MIA: Evangelical Women in Public Life | Are there really none? (April 17, 2009)

Strip-Searched Girl Heads to Supreme Court | (April 16, 2009)

Christians Urge Obama to Keep Conscience Clause | Today is the last day for arguments supporting medical workers’ right to refuse to provide care that violates their conscience. (April 9, 2009)

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