"What happens when young, American women speak the unspeakable about our experiences of faith?" That's the question I was asked a year ago when I received an email from a writer friend asking me to contribute to a new compilation of essays from Christian women who were willing to "unearth the taboos that have stifled us, divided us, and prevented us from feeling at home in Christian communities." I was invited to talk about the "taboo" subjects that we often keep hidden in the … [Read more...]
Christ's Mother Reflects: His Childhood “...and for him to see me mended / I must see him torn.” -Luci Shaw “Mary’s Song” He stood at the door, wet-faced and panting. in his hands three baby birds. They’re hungry, he sniffed, nested them in a bowl with grass, fed them worms until they died. After, I held him for an hour, his soul too much for this world. Who doesn’t want normal for her son? Yet he chose the lonely of the children, played ball with the friendless. … [Read more...]
A project like A Year of Biblical Womanhood, in which Rachel Held Evans spends a year attempting to follow every specific biblical principle applied to women, could easily have come off as a mockery, one more 300-page joke about how the Bible is backward and legalistic and written by women-hating ancients. Instead Evans invites us into her struggle: her love for scripture and her willingness to work through the parts of the Bible that she isn’t quite sure how to make sense of. This book, … [Read more...]
I've been a fan of Ed Cyzewski ever since I first discovered his "Women in Ministry Series," while simultaneously realizing he was a man! (Which means he is the bravest kind of man and I truly admire him.) He was our first contribution to the {This Sacred Everyday} series. And, he's a fellow stay-at-home parent. (Which means I admire him even more.) So it's an honor to be able to contribute today to the very series I first found and loved from afar. And if you have a chance, take a look at … [Read more...]
“I solemnly swear…” Her lip twitched, her eye twinkled. “I solemnly swear…” we repeated, our right hands raised to the sky, our fingers making the shape of any good scout promise. “That I…” “That I…” We giggled. We were standing around a table of pretzels and Kool-Aid. It was a summer Tuesday, one of the days we spent at the church children’s program. “Will not spill this Kool-Aid on the new carpet…” “Will not spill this Kool-Aid on the new … [Read more...]
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