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Currently writing at …
I haven’t been writing but that is because life has been crazy – the good kind – and I am writing at our adoption blog and at Soul Munchies. Please stop by and check them out. I hope to be writing here again but till then I’d love for you to join me there.
Vaginas … and all that comes with them
Recently a writer and blogger, Rachel Held Evans, shared frustration over having to edit out a few words in her upcoming book, A Year of Biblical Womanhood. Rachel Evans, having already published one book, knows that editing is part of the process of publishing. Of course, it’s hard to see certain words, sentences … even entire […]
Trashing Labels; Planting Trees
Confession: I want to throw rocks. I want to shout louder. I want to be heard. My husband says I have a knack for cutting through all the “fluff” and getting to the heart of something. And I want to do that now. With urgency. With force. Underlying that sense of urgency are many good […]
Digging Deep; Planting Trees
For the last several months there has been a lot of talk about men and women in the church. Mostly on the Internet, but there have been sermons preached and books released all seeming to have the answers. Answers to questions such as: Is a woman’s place primarily in the home, raising children and supporting […]
Is this the only way?
There has a been a lot of buzz on the internet regarding the place women should or should not hold in the church and in the home. Arguments and discussions about complementarian vs. egalitarian. Lots of conversations about a masculine vs. feminine feel to God and to the church. There are all kinds of thoughts on […]
In which I should meet God again …
Someone suggested recently to imagine being best friends with Love, Truth, Wisdom, Humor, Compassion, Energy and Hope. Her suggestion wrapped up in a discussion on prayer. We hold that God is Love. He is Truth. He is Wisdom. He is all those things. We assert that when we see love, experience truth, hear wisdom and […]
Listening to Luke
These are just my thoughts, here and there, currently in progress as I study, teach and learn Luke with a great group of women. And who is my neighbor? Something doesn’t sit right with me as I read this parable. Something I had never noticed before till I started reading Eugene Peterson’s Tell It Slant. […]
Liturgical Wanderings: A Hymn to Bring You Home
One benefit of attending a church with a highly liturgical tradition is that it is much easier to attend another church cut from the same cloth. Or at least that is the way it seemed to me attending an Episcopal church in Springfield, MO a few Sundays back. I couldn’t believe that I was going […]
In which I contemplate (poorly) the church …
Disclaimer: this seems like such an awful piece. I’ve been writing and rewriting all day and not sure where it is going or that it’s all been worked out cleanly yet in my head but I’ve got to put it down as flawed as it is so I can put it back together as I […]
