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.
Photo by Hayan on Pexels.com On the way to visiting yet another church a couple months ago, I shot up one of those arrow prayers, Lord, I am looking for Christ in your church. Help me see him if he’s there. It’s been an agonizing search. The Friday before, I wrote...
Dreamstime I don’t know how many women today would be turned on before lovemaking if her groom told her that her neck was like a tower. But the Groom in the Song goes for it, telling her, “Your neck is like the tower of David, constructed in layers. A thousand shields...
This isn’t a book review. Reviewing someone’s memoir doesn’t seem quite right. They just shared their life with you. It’s a brave act. I think it has been Beth Moore’s superpower in her ministry. She is beloved because of how she gives herself to others. And she is a...
Photo by Jeff Stapleton on Pexels.com Sometimes Christians have a hard time talking about our grief. We think we need to be happy all the time. Like our witness to Christ depends on it. Seeing the news from the Southern Baptist Convention yesterday, even though it's...
Photo by Ivan Bertolazzi on Pexels.com “Wicked people despise the cost of growth” I heard someone say this the other day, attributing it to Dan Allender and Tremper Longman. It really stuck to me. We like to think in terms of discipline when we consider the cost of...
I made this in high school Talk about hoarding. What a love/hate relationship we have with time! The memories that haunt us, that we cannot get back. The things we wish we could change, the words we wish we said or hadn’t said. The opportunities that we missed out of...
From Medieval manuscript Bellifortis by Conrad Kyeser and dates to c. 1405. Moses’ Wife, the Queen of Sheba, and the Black Bride Let's trace the black and beautiful bride through Scripture and behold her beauty, starting with that strange story in Numbers...
Photo by Harrison Haines on Pexels.com The past couple of years directed my thinking and longings to what kind of friend I want to be. Or maybe it’s more like what kind of person I want to be. They are hand-in-hand concepts. This is what I am thinking about going into...