I was looking for a community of like-minded people to have the conversations that I was longing to have in church.
I began blogging as I was looking for a community of like-minded people to have the conversations that I was longing to have in church. I wrote to learn and to connect, never thinking that I would still be going over ten years later! Some of that learning has also involved critiquing contemporary evangelical and church culture, trying to make sense of it all. I’m so blessed by the community I’ve found and the way thoughtful and engaging readers have helped me grow.
Blog Archive I was looking for a community of like-minded people to have the conversations that I was longing to have in church. I began blogging as I was looking for a community of like-minded people to have the conversations that I was longing to have in church. I...
“But do you know, in nineteen years of marriage my husband never once looked into my eyes and told me I was beautiful.” Shannon Harris, The Woman They Wanted Shut the book for a second, Aimee. Hurt with her. Hurt with Shannon. With beautiful Shannon. I went to high...
Photo by Wayne Jackson on Pexels.com Videos keep popping up on my social media apps, tutorials to disguise my hooded eyes. Yes, I’ve noticed them too, in the mornings and in pictures where I’m smiling but something looks different. The hooded eye, they call it. It...
A teenager called us to worship yesterday. Pentecost Sunday was also youth Sunday at the church we’ve been attending. The youth decorated the sanctuary, designed the bulletin cover, picked the music, participated in the liturgy, collaborated with the pastor for the...
It’s time to prepare for the summer reads list and Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America needs to be on it. “One by one they’d come into the world, and in the very same order, they lost touch with it.” Edna. Wilma....
Acrylic painting by Haydn Byrd It’s that season of the year when all of the theo-dude bros want to start telling women what they should not wear. Jacob Denhollander has joked that it enters with condemning yoga pants and soon makes its way to the bikini. I’ve seen the...
Photo by Lachlan Ross on Pexels.com “At least the sermons are practical…” That was the best thing a friend had to say after a church visit. Is that really a good thing, though?, I responded. Is that what we are getting up early for on Sunday morning and schlepping our...