For 12 of my 15 years of pastoring, I pastored in an Anabaptist denomination — Brethren in Christ — that was not LGBTQ-affirming. For a
Growing up Southern Baptist in West Virginia in the 1990s and early 2000s, Anna Rollins heard one message clearly: Your body is a liability. Like many evangelical Christian women raised at a time when secular America became consumed with diet culture and evangelicalism sought to control young women through purity culture, Rollins tried to transcend her body altogether, restricting her eating and exercising obsessively.